Today, Polyend has announced the Tracker Mini 10th Anniversary Edition, in celebration of the company’s 10th anniversary.
Here’s what they have to say about it:
“To celebrate 10 years of Polyend, we’ve designed a limited edition Tracker Mini.
The classic Tracker Mini experience with a new look. Encased in a solid, precision-machined aluminum body, this exclusive version features redesigned buttons and a high contrast glass screen. This is a premium, limited-run device — designed and assembled, without compromise, at our headquarters in Poland.”
The Tracker Mini 10th Anniversary Edition is available to preorder, in two finishes, black and silver, priced at $998.
Rhodes Music has unveiled a new sampled-based plugin recreation of the Wurlitzer electric piano, joining the Rhodes V8 and Anthology plugins in its virtual instrument lineup.
Rhodes Wurli is based on the Wurlitzer 200A, a model released in 1974 that became the most commercially successful Wurlitzer, making its way into recordings from Pink Floyd, Elton John, Stevie Wonder and more.
The plugin is built on the same engine as Rhodes’ Anthology, offering a variety of sound-shaping options that includes an array of effects and a number of amp and microphone models, including new authentic recreations of the 200A’s amp and speakers.
Rhodes Wurli’s stable of effects includes chorus, phaser, delay and reverb with spring, plate, room and hall modes, alongside a three-band EQ and vibrato modelled after the 200A’s hardware circuit. The plugin also features timbre-shifting and tuning options, along with mechanical noise for added realism.
As part of our ever-expanding library of classic instruments, we’re proud to share our own take on the iconic reed-based electric piano,” says Rhodes Music’s Chief Product Officer Dan Goldman.
“Sampled by the same expert team behind the Rhodes V8 and Anthology plug-ins, Rhodes Wurli brings the 200A to a whole new level of musicality and playability. Paired with Anthology’s powerful sound-shaping tools, effects, and intuitive interface, the result is something truly special — raw, warm, and beautifully expressive.”
The Wurlitzer is a reed-based electric piano that was on the market from 1954 to 1983, offering a more lightweight and portable alternative to the Rhodes that was edgier and sharper in tone.
It is available now in VST, AU, and AAX formats through the official Rhodes Music store.
Rhodes Wurli priced at an introductory offer of $90.97 (normally $129.95) until June 30. Find out more on the Rhodes Music site.
Motion: Fractal is a granular powerhouse for twisting, stretching and scattering sounds.
Motion: Fractal unleashes endless motion, texture, and modern sonic transformation through dual granular engines, a reactive trance gate, and stutter-repeat effects.
Excite Audio is the brand behind a rapidly expanding stable of plugins that includes Lifeline Console and Lifeline Expanse, along with the more recent Motion series, a trio of processors designed to add movement to audio.
The company’s latest release is Motion: Fractal, a granular multi-effects plugin that Excite Audio says will enhance static sounds, sculpt hypnotic rhythms and twist, stretch and scatter any signal, offering tons of potential for creative sound design.
Fractal is equipped with five individual effects modules that can be reordered in the plugin’s routing section: there’s a dual-layer granular engine, a trance gate effect, a beat repeat module and a hall reverb.
Fractal’s granular engine captures audio and slices it into tiny grains to create evolving textures; grains can be filtered, panned, reversed and pitch-shifted, and there are three unique playhead modes onboard that adjust the position in an incoming signal that the grains are sliced from.
Fractal’s Repeat and Gate modules introduce a rhythmic effect to a signal: Gate drops out audio during chosen steps in its tempo-synced, 32-step sequence, while Repeat produces a glitchy stutter effect by repeating slices of the incoming signal. These are joined by Space, a basic reverb with length and mix controls.
These can be manipulated via Fractal’s hexagonal controller, a kind of XY pad that can be used to assign up to six macros and morph between them using your cursor. You’re also able to draw and record custom paths for the cursor to follow which can then be replayed as modulation.
Drag-and-dropping a parameter to the hexagon will hook it up to Fractal’s envelope follower, which modulates the parameter in response to the amplitude of the incoming audio.
Dive deep into Motion: Fractal video:
It runs on macOS and Windows and is available in VST/VST3/AU/AAX formats, or a standalone app.
Motion: Fractal is currently available at a discounted price of $52.49/£39/€46.26 and there’s a Lite version on offer with a reduced feature set for only $33.65/£25.00/€29.65
