Manecolabs has introduced it’s latest Eurorack module in their Grone line of drone machines, Grone Wave.
Grone Wave is based on a lofi sample player engine, with 4 banks of up to 16 8-bit samples. They say that “you’ll find all kind of textures and accidents useful for ambient, musique concrete, noise and whatever nightmares you imagine.”
You can control pitch, sample start and end points, and reverse them. In addition, there’s an external trigger input for retriggering from sync signals, gates or clocks.
The sample then passes through a MOJ transistor ladder low-pass filter, with resonance. The filter is also modulated by a multi-waveform LFO.
Effects are provided by a special Clouds version, with dedicated feedback, pan blend and reverb sliders to provide intuitive and immediate control. Grone Wave is available now for $465.
Reason Studios has announced that version 12.5 of its Reason DAW is now available for download. This offers support for VST3 plugins when you’re using Reason as a standalone application.
The Reason Rack Plugin has offered VST3 support for a while, but only now is its ‘parent’ app getting the same level of compatibility.
“We firmly believe there’s no right way to make music,” says Reason Studios’ Music Making Product Manager Mattias Häggström Gerdt. “Musicians and producers mix and match to create their own unique setup.
“With VST3 support, music makers can now use the latest versions of their favourite VST plugins in Reason – just like how music makers in other DAWs can use Reason Rack Plugin as a VST3, AU or AAX.”
In addition to the VST3 support, Reason 12.5, also increases the number of available audio inputs, outputs, and automatable parameters for any VST hosted in Reason. There are a few other minor updates and bug fixes, as well.
Vector Synth has released an update to the Vector firmware that adds MPE support, and new expressive options for non-MPE controllers.
The Vector synthesizer is a digital synth module that features a hybrid synth engine, 16-voice polyphony, a deep arpeggiator, effects and more.
The new firmware 2.8 exposes the trajectory and synthesis parameters:
Horizontal and vertical position of the mix point
Suborbit speed and size
Amplitude and pitch
Filter cutoff and resonance
Amount of phase modulation etc. during synthesis
Vibrato and tremolo speeds and depths
Each note travels a different trajectory by controlling their horizontal and vertical position offsets.
The Routing Table
The routing configuration is arranged into a neat table — controllers to the left, destination parameters to the right. Each route can have an individually tuned translation function to deal with situations where 1:1 mapping is not enough to achieve nuanced expression. A small live preview thumbnail is provided for each destination.
A single source can transmit to multiple parameters, scaled in different ways, with different operators.
