At Superbooth 2023, synth designer George Hearn from UDO Audio introduced their new synthesizer Super Gemini in this Gesprächskonzert.The Super Gemini is a 20-voice polyphonic, bi-timbral analog-hybrid flagship keyboard. UDO says that the keyboard gives you “immediate comprehensive control” over both timbral layers. Like the company’s Super 6, the Gemini can be used as a 20 voice synth, or as a 10-voice, true-stereo binaural synth.
The Super Gemini is equipped with a 61- note semi-weighted keybed with polyphonic aftertouch, in addition to a custom engineered ribbon sensor.
It has a hybrid voice architecture. Digital oscillators offer wave morphing, cross & ring modulation, bi-directional sync and more. These feed into an analog signal path that they say is by classic vintage instruments.
Details on the Super Gemini are still to come at the UDO website.
At Superbooth 2023, developer Mitja Cerkvenik introduced Triggerpad, a new Eurorack trigger/gate sequencer that lets you use a Launchpad to control your modular synthesizer.
Triggerpad is an 8-channel trigger/gate sequencer in Eurorack format. A USB MIDI controller with an 8×8 grid like the Launchpad or APC is used to display and edit the patterns.
This lets you create simple rhythms or complex polyrhythms, retrigger at audio rate, create dynamic percussion with velocity triggers or use longer pulses to create steppy modulations.
Features:
8 channels (start/stop individually)
1 to 64 steps pattern length (per channel)
8 substeps per step (128th notes)
7 levels of velocity of the trigger pulses (0-10V)
250us – 1 step adjustable trigger/gate length
Session mode: record patterns quantized to substeps or 16th notes
Program sequences in step sequencer mode
Global and per channel shuffle
Program shuffle patterns: define which steps will be shuffled
Switch between patterns instantly or chain up to 64 patterns
Set the BPM from 0.5 to 400
Set clock divider and clock multiplier on clock input and output
No deep menu diving, tailored for live performance
Store and recall 64 snapshots of all 64 scenes on USB drives
Details on pricing and availability are to come at the Crosspatch website.
At Superbooth 2023, Horst Mayer presented the MD900 Extended Virtual Analog Desktop Synthesizer.
The MD900 is a polyphonic desktop synthesizer, multitimbral with 4 parts. The polyphony of up to 16 voices is shared by 4 multi-timbral parts.
Each of these 4 parts has their own effect stack, including Mod-Delay (flanger, chorus, vibrato), Reverb, Tube-AMP, EQ, LP-Filter, DYNAMIC (Limiter) , Stereo Delay and more.
Key Features:
The overall audio path is stereo. The oscillator, mixer filter, amps and effects are all in stereo.
Four independent arpeggiator and step sequencer are assigned to each of the four synth parts. The trigger sequencer may trigger the built in transient sample player (Drum Kit .wav) or send triggers to MIDI-Out (USB-DIN or USB-MIDI)
The housing is made of aluminum with walnut wood on the front and back.
All components are industrial grade, including precision potentiometers with aluminum covered knobs.
