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Sound designer Anton Anru shared this video preview for Evolving Voice, a new collection of 64 sounds for Elektron Analog Four and Analog Keys.

What Anru says about it:

“Movement is the main focus of the soundset. The patches feature modulations that change the sound over time — whether slow or fast, tempo-synced or free-running, complex or simple.

The bank of presets features various tones: soft, hard, metallic, vintage, modern, deep, bright, epic, acid, noisy, detuned, percussive, and others.

The pack includes: 33 Leads, 16 FXs, 15 Chords. The chords are not polyphonic; they utilize a single voice. The chords are crafted with oscillators tuned to different intervals. When you press a single key, you obtain a minor or major chord. You can transpose the chords using keys. Additionally, you may use Parameter Lock (changing oscillators in semitones) to switch between minor and major or vice versa to seamlessly fit a chord into a progression.

All presets are Velocity-sensitive and have ModWheel modulations.

The soundset is suitable for a wide range of genres: techno, house, deep, minimal, progressive, trance, ambient, electronica, IDM, trip-hop, lounge, downtempo, chill out, new age, cinematic, industrial, breakbeat, breaks, jungle, drum and bass, dub and many others.”

*Note: The sounds were developed on the Analog Four mkII, so they are compatible with the mk1 and Analog Keys, but they may sound slightly different than the demo because of changes in the mkII circuits.
Evolving Voice is available now for $24.95.

The Super Gemini is a 20-voice polyphonic, bi-timbral flagship keyboard synthesizer that’s designed for immediate control and expressive performance. The front panel gives you immediate comprehensive control over both timbral layers, the keyboard features polyphonic aftertouch and a ribbon control offers continuous pitch control.

The UDO Audio Super Gemini is available now, priced at £3799.

Patch Point has opened pre-orders for the Fénix II PP, a direct descendant of the Synton Fénix II, created in collaboration with designer Bert Vermuelen of the original Synton design team.

It is a fully analog synthesizer, with the same components as the original Fénix II, with a few feature upgrades. These include:

• VCF3 – Formant Filter – a new modern design using chips instead of vactrols, which allows for voltage controlled resonance and an expanded frequency range.
• VCF4 – LPG – a new modern design using chips, instead of vactrols, which allows for an expanded frequency range and quicker response, and more accurate control of the length parameter.
• Delay – The Delay is now a dual delay with a 3rd switch position. delay 1, delay 2, or in the middle both delays mixed, with the additional jack of a second frequency parameter for the 2nd delay. You can now CV control both delays pitches with a separate jack.

Features:

• 3 VCO’s, 3 different VCO’s ( Inputs CV, FM, PWM, Sync e.o, Output square, triagle, sawtooth and some has puls, sub, sine e.o) )
• 4 different VCF´s ( SVF, 24dB Lp, BPF, 12dB Lp). ( Input CV modulation, SVF has Q-CV control
• 3 EGR and 4 VCA’s and 5 LFO’s. (Many modules are voltage controlled)
• 7 Mixers ( 3 audio mixers and 4 DC-Audio mixers).
• 1 Phaser and 1 Delay (BDD). ( off course voltage controlled)
• 1 8 step analog sequencer with own clock.
• 1 Waveshapers, 1 wavemultiplier and 1 full wave rectifier. ( voltage controlled, except for the rectifier )
• 1 CPR, 1 S&H, 1 Gate delay, 1 Ringmodulator, 1 Slew limiter, 1 fixed +/- 5volt output.
• 1 Analog noise and 1 Digital noise. ( Digital noise voltage controlled
• 1 6 Banana to 3,5 mm minijack connectors.
• 1 Input module with trigger, gate and envelop out.
• 1 Stereo output module with dual panning and dual VCA. ( off course voltage controlled)

The Fénix II PP is available to pre-order for €4999. Patch Point is planning to build 100 Fénix II PP analog modular synthesizers in small batches. The first batch is 30, and they say that there are currently 14 left available.