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Machina Bristronica – Elevator Sound’s ‘festival of knobs’, is coming to Briston Sept 30th, 2023.

The event, which sprawls over 4 warehouse rooms and an outdoor stage at the new Document venue in the heart of Bristol, will feature vendors, panel talks, performances, workshops and more. Details available on the event website.

The event will include:

• 120 tables of the best synthesizers, manufacturers and modular gear on the planet;
• 11 hours of live hardware performances, with 6 visual artists providing “mind bending accompaniment”;
• 6 panel discussions;
• 5 educational sessions;
• 7 DIY Workshops;
• 6 hours of Afterparty action;
• Interviews, merch, installations and more.

Vendors include:

1010 Music

3rd Event Technologies

Adam Audio

AJH Synths

AMMT Synthesis

Apollo View

Archaea Modular

Arturia

Ashun Sound Machines

AtoVproject

Auza

Bastl

Beepboop

Befaco

Bela

Between Machines

Bitwig

Bjooks

Bladud Flies

Bleep Klub

Bristol Communal Modular

Buchla

Circuit Happy

Clatters Machines

Cold Earth Industries

Congburn

Cosmotronic

Damaru

DBS Institute

DNIPro

DPW Design

Dreadbox

Eowave

Emute Lab

Enjoy Electronics

Erica Synths

Error Instruments

Euterpe Lab

Eventide

Finegear

Frap Tools

Flame

Fully Wired Electronics

Future Sound Systems

GS Music

Hack Modular

Haken Audio

Herbs and Stones

Instruo

Isotonik Studios

Jolinlab

Joranalogue

Knobula

Laine

Lateral Sound

Leaf Audio

L.E.P

Majella

Mellotron

Midicake

Mnemonic Devices

Modular Perfection

Moog

Moon Modular

Music Thing Modular

Neuzeit Instruments

Node audio

Nord

Northern Light Modular

Officina del Malista

Orgeldream

Oxi Instruments

Patching Panda

Plankton Electronics

Play All Day

Polyend

PWM Music

Rakit

Rides In The Storm

Ritual Electonics

Roland

RYK Modular

Schlappi Engineering

Song Athletics

Soma Laboratory

Sonocurrent

Stochastic Instruments

Synth Cables

Syntonie

Teenage Engineering

This Is Not Rocket Science

Tubbutec

U-He

Velocity Press

Vaski

Venus Instruments

Vermona

Vostok Instruments

VPME.de

We All Play Synth

WORNG Electronics

Xaoc Devices

XOR Electronics

Zlob Modular

 

 

Asheville, NC based Moog Music continues to downsize, reports the Citizen-Times, three months after the company was acquired by InMusic.

The newspaper says that Moog has eliminated “possibly more than half the existing jobs, including most of the production positions.

While there’s been no official word on the layoffs, our understanding is that manufacturing for most Moog products based on modern designs is being eliminated in Asheville and moved overseas. InMusic had previously eliminated job functions at Moog that can be handled by the parent company.

“Tariffs Are Seriously Harmful To American Businesses Like Moog”

In 2018, Moog warned that tariffs instituted as part of the Trump administration’s trade war with China would raise prices and could lead to jobs being moved overseas:

“These tariffs will immediately and drastically increase the cost of building our instruments, and have the very real potential of forcing us to lay off workers and could (in a worst case scenario) require us to move some, if not all, of our manufacturing overseas,” adding, “Tariffs are seriously harmful to American businesses like Moog.”

The tariffs added a 25% import tax on Chinese components used in synth manufacturing, but not on the import of complete synths. This meant that companies that manufacture in the U.S. have to pay a lot more for parts companies than that move their manufacturing overseas.

The Biden administration has left most of these trade tariffs in place.

Moog’s predictions have been borne out in the last five years. The company raised prices notably in 2022, saying at the time “The ongoing global challenges of material shortages, supply chain limitations, inflation, as well as rising raw goods and shipping costs, have made it necessary to adjust some of our pricing. And now, InMusic appears to be moving the bulk of Moog’s manufacturing overseas.

 

Synthesist Tim Shoebridge shared this look at MPE on the Groove Synthesis 3rd Wave synthesizer.

In the video, Shoebridge discusses the 3rd Wave firmware update and demonstrates the 3rd Wave’s MPE support, using the Expressive-E Osmose as an MPE controller.

Groove Synthesis recently added MPE support to the 3rd Wave and announced a new desktop module.