The latest Sonic Lab video offers an in-depth review of the SOMA Labs Terra synthesizer, an instrument that they describe as a “highly conceptual device”.
“The results are pretty unusual,” notes host Nick Batt, “although, you can easily tune Terra to be in key if you want to play with others.”
Topics covered:
00:00 – Start
00:30 – overview
04:06 – Sounds 1
10:44 – Loading patches
12:46 – Modifying patches
14:06 – Transpose Buttons
19:26 – Drum patch
20:35 – Algorithms
25:13 – Arpeggiator
26:48 – Playing Terra
30:27 – Midi Control
33:40 – Conclusion
Watch the video SOMA Terra review and let us know what you think of it in the comments.
Synthesist John Schussler shared this audio demo of Praetereo Versio, a free, third-party random looper for Noise Engineering’s Versio platform.
Noise Engineering describes Versio as “a shapeshifting effects platform”. It’s a hardware effects platform for Eurorack that lets you load a variety of firmware, letting you use the module in a variety of ways.
Praetereo Versio decides at random whether or not to record, creating a soundscape that’s “reminiscent of the source audio without quite being it”.
