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Superbooth is THE major annual event for all synth enthusiasts and manufacturers. Those three days are very fun and very intense. You get to meet people which you only know from email or other internet interactions and you get to meet so many new people who are interested in the AE Modular system. This year we had the shared booth again with tangible waves, Wonkystuff, BF Synths and Symbolic Circuits putting so much new stuff on that table, we all could talk for hours about to anyone who cared to listen. Unfortunately the event also uses up a lot of energy and it takes weeks to get back up to a normal routine afterwards. Imagine standing 12 hours in a room with 100 loudspeakers each blasting different tunes or beats so you have to shout at people the whole time. It's fun, but also very exhausting. Therefore this blog and the videos of the interviews always come a bit late, but without further ado, let's have a look at all the new things which were presented this year. New ProductsWAEVE82 This is a two oscillator wavetable synthesizer with 8 voice polyphony! It is a complete synthesizer in a relatively small module and offers CV, Gate connectivity as well as a complete MIDI implementation which gives you access to control any of the 80 parameters via external controllers or your DAW. This module is a collaboration between tangible waves (hardware) and Matthias Brüssel (software) and was made in honour of the classic PPG Wavetable synthesizers which were introduced in the early 80's by Wolfgang Palm, etc. Here are some of the many features:
You can see and hear more about this and a few other modules in this interview: Third Party ProductsWonkystuff Wonkystuff presented a few new modules which you can see and hear in this interview: You should check the Wonkystuff website for news and availability of the following modules: mi/mo This micro module accepts MIDI input either via the 3.5mm jack or patch points at the top. It then sends that MIDI out to also via 3.5mm jack or patch points. This is useful to control MIDI instruments from the AE Modular! Also since the input jack accepts both type A and B connectors and the output can be switched to either A or B via a hardware switch, this can be used to convert MIDI cables from one type to another. μmdx This is an 8-channel MIDI demultiplexer very similar to the mb/1 but obviously only for half the number of channels. However these can be configured to be:
CVMx This is an amazing module which can convert CV signals to MIDI messages! Check out the video interview about all the cool things you can do with it! pa4 This module assigns one MIDI channel to 4 parallel channels which allows you to play 4 voice polyphonic if you have 4 IMDI capable oscillator modules! It sends note and CC messages and has a few allocation modes:
env4 This module has 4 attack/release envelopes with individual triggers but which share the same settings. This is great in combination with pa4 for playing 4 voices polyphonically. BF Synth The power duo from Belgium and France showed off two really cool new modules and have other fantastic news towards the end of this interview! Perc-O-Lator This is a 4 channel envelope made for percussive sounds as each channel offers only a decay knob! The envelopes can be individually triggered either via CV or MIDI. You can buy this module on their website: https://www.tindie.com/products/bfsynths/bf-23-perc-o-lator-4-envelopes-for-ae-modular/ LED-Chaos This is a fun micro module which brings some randomness into your patches. There are 3 different LEDs which flicker slow or fast chaotically and you can patch into them to get random CV signals. The signal can also be changed by the Morph Knob. This is available on their website: https://www.tindie.com/products/bfsynths/bf-22-led-chaos-cv-source-for-ae-modular/ Kyaa's Euclid Grid is back! BF Synth has made a deal with Kyaa and will produce this important module from now on. This is a 4 channel trigger sequencer which uses euclidean patterns across 2 dimensional areas. The colorful screen shows those different sequences and they can be arranged and shaped in many ways very easily via the 8 control buttons and one rotary encoder knob. This is an essential module and should be in every rack! You can now buy it on their website: https://www.tindie.com/products/bfsynths/kyaas-euclid-grid-euclidian-sequencer-for-ae/ Symbolic Circuits Henrik was presenting his modules for the first time at Superbooth, but he was already well known in the AE community for his BusBuddy power board which can turn any rack into a quick swap case. Most modules he presented at Superbooth are early prototypes, but they do look and sound promising. Check out what he's cooking in this interview: Faux Cyrillic and Solipsistnation Although not personally present at Superbooth, Faux Cyrillic's most talked about module, COILS, was presented beautifully by Josh aka Solipsistnation who also built a few of these modules mostly for people in the USA. He came all the way from California to Superbooth with a cute little travel modular case. Here he is talking to The 5th Volt about his approach to making and how he's mainly using two Faux Cyrillic modules: COILS and Pikocore. Check out Faux Cyrillic's website for modules and availability: https://www.tindie.com/stores/fauxcyrillic/ And if you live in the USA then you should check Josh's website on Tindie for his builds of COILS and PikoCore: https://www.tindie.com/stores/solipsistnation/ News and Music from the CommunitySo obviously there is some dance music from Keurslager Kurt to check out from his Superbooth afterparty! Maydonpoliris using the new BF Synth modules in this Percolating Beats video: The trees obscure the vision - a dancey patch by 101 Mind Grains - running in shows AE Modular in concert with too many other cool synths and very psychedelic visuals. Akze shows off his very first recorded patch with his new AE Modular system! John aka Namke aka Wonkystuff playing live at EMOM Festival in Leeds - this whole video is 7 hours long, but John's set starts at 03:18:09 … check it out: Nebulosa di Orione col BeatDivider e tre voci Drone38, Noise e 2OSCD - is another astronomy inspired track by Professore Saltatempo. This has some really cool sounds: exhibit a - by artist 327 is drone made with the AE Modular and guitar which invites us to explore the territories and landscapes of sound through deep listening. https://cptrrecords.bandcamp.com/album/exhibit-a You can discuss this here: https://forum.aemodular.com/thread/3522/327-exhibit-drone  DIYQuad Vactrol Module by Solipsistnation This module is a prototype to go with the quad envelope by BF Synth, Perc-O-Lator. It looks quite nice, check out the post on the forum: https://forum.aemodular.com/thread/3521/prototype-quad-vactrol-module Timer is a delay for trigger inputs This could be useful and the documentation and build instructions provided by Gerif are spot on as usual! Check it out: https://forum.aemodular.com/thread/3492/timer  Meetings and EventsAE Modular Zoom Meetup
The last meetup was in April and the next one will be on the Saturday 28th of June. Check the Forum for more details! https://forum.aemodular.com/board/29/online-meetups Comments are closed.
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AuthorRobert Langer, founder of tangible waves. Here, I will share some thoughts, background infos and news about AE modular and tangible waves. Archives
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