The latest XNB video is a complete guide to the Behringer TD-3 bassline synthesizer, a knockoff of the classic Roland TB-303 that makes some useful updates to the original design.
Behringer says that the analog circuitry is ‘an authentic reproduction of the original circuitry with matched transistors’. The TD-3 expands on the original, though, adding USB/DIN MIDI In/Out, some basic CV/Gate features and built-in distortion.
Make Noise has officially introduced the XPO Stereo Prismatic Oscillator, a Voltage Controlled Analog Oscillator designed for generating Sine waves, Triangle waves, Sawtooth and Spike waves, Sub-Octaves, Stereo Timbre Modulations (including Pulse Width Modulation and Wavefolding), Oscillator SYNC, Linear FM and more in the analog domain.
The Make Noise XPO was introduced via a July 17 live streamed event from Perfect Circuit . You can view the introduction, featuring Make Noise founder Tony Rolando, via the video above. It is their first Eurorack module that they’ve introduced since they debuted the Mimeophon in 2019.
XPO is designed to be the Stereo VCO complement to the Make Noise QPAS Stereo Filter. The two modules share the core idea of complex circuits being controlled in multiple dimensions in the stereo field by a few powerful parameters.
In addition, Stereo Prismatic Oscillator makes a useful complement for the STO, Mimeophon, and X-PAN.
Features:
Stereo Analog VCO with eleven simultaneous outputs (five mono outs and three stereo pairs)
Modulate Timbre via Stereo Pulse-Width Modulation, Stereo Vari-Timbre, and Stereo Wavefolding
Sine, Triangle, Sawtooth, Spike, and SUB mono outs
Unique Mono versions of all Stereo Waveforms via Left output normalizations
Modulate Left and Right channels together or separately thanks to normalization and attenuverters
Center parameter adds additional timbre control to both sides of Vari-Timbre and Wavefolded outputs
Linear FM Bus features voltage-control over FM depth and a normalization of SUB to FM input for easy GROWL
Unique SYNC circuit
Two 1v/oct inputs for transposition, melody stacking, or richest FM
Expo FM input with attenuverter
Designed to pair well with QPAS, Mimeophon, and X-PAN
Audio Demo:
The official audio demo for the Make Noise XPO below, is scheduled to debuts on 20th July, 2022.
Make Noise XPO availability and pricing has yet to be announced, but they are planning to release on end of September.
Node Audio has introduced Entonal Studio, a plugin (VST/VST3 and AU) and standalone application for Linux, Mac and Windows.
Entonal Studio is designed to make it easy to explore the sounds of microtonal music. It can host and retune any VST/AU instrument, go beyond 12-tone Equal Temperament with the radial graph, and make your tunings simple to play and sequence, thanks to flexible keyboard mapping options.
And, it comes with support for over 100 preset tunings, so you can create and share your own custom tunings.
Features:
Host any AU/VST2/VST3 instrument.
Easy to use with any level of tuning know-how.
Edit scales your way
Map your scales to your keyboard
Works with MPE
Built-in synthesizer
Share tunings
Edit tunings across multiple tracks with Groups
Entonal communicates note nsmes with your DAW
Retune external hardware
Entonal Studio is available now with an intro price of £59, a trial version is also available through August 16th, 2022, regular price £79.
