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Teenage Engineering’s new Field Desk costs just as much as you’d expect and then a little bit more.

Teenage Engineering – makers of high-end synths like the OP-1 Field & the budget Pocket Operator series – has introduced the Field Desk, “the official workspace of teenage engineering.” A simple-looking piece of minimalist flatpack studio furniture, but it’s also designed to be part of a modular work environment that somehow manages to cost $1,599/£1,599.

The Field Desk is the first product of Teenage Engineering’s new open-ended field rail system, an ongoing project that’s based on interconnecting rails that can be used to build your own furniture and accessories. All rails and clamps are produced by Scandinavian manufacturer Hydro using their engineering-grade, 75% recycled aluminium.

Field Desk is made from double-sided formica birch plywood. The idea here is that, if the surface gets worn and you fancy freshening things up, you can just turn it over.

The Field Desk doesn’t come with any drawers but, can be combined with accessories, like a custom storage tray and tape holder (available soon), or you can latch on your own creations using m5 screws.

And, it would also be the perfect platform for your OP-1 Field ($1,999), TX-6 mini mixer ($1,199), Field Notebook ($12) and Field Bottle ($29).

They say:

“field desk is made from only what’s needed and nothing it doesn’t. all rails and clamps are produced by Scandinavian manufacturer Hydro, using their engineering grade, 75% recycled aluminium.

the desktop is crafted from double-sided formica birch plywood, so if the surface appears worn over time, it can be turned over for a fresh look. lightweight and modular, field desk arrives flat-packed to build in place, simple to assemble and disassemble.”

This system allows Teenage Engineering to offer custom-engineered interior solutions for professional workspaces.

Find out more about the Field Desk on the Teenage Engineering website. The Field Desk is available now for $1599.

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FabFilter may be best known for its mixing plugins, but FabFilter also has a decent synth in its portfolio. The Twin was first introduced in 2005, with a second version arrived in 2009.

After the release of version 2, now, the update arrives 14 years later. FabFilter Twin 3 has landed with a completely redesigned GUI and workflow, more and better oscillators and filters, a revamped modulation system, an all-new FX section and more.

The new interface has been designed to make Twin more accessible and easier to navigate than ever before. You can now add and remove individual filters and oscillators as required, and the filters can be tweaked on an interactive EQ-style display. There are also per-oscillator oscilloscopes, a spectrogram, and full visualisation of modulation signals throughout the signal path.

Twin 3’s oscillators – it now has four in comparison to its predecessor’s three – have been completely overhauled and, thanks to their new ‘drift’ feature, which introduces random pitch and phase fluctuations, are designed to sound more ‘analogue’ than ever before. The oscillators also offer pulse width modulation, hard sync and phase sync.

Polyphony has been doubled to 64 voices, with the Per Oscillator polyphony mode stepping through oscillators with each incoming note. Twin’s filter count has also been doubled – rising from two to four – and there are new vintage-style bell, shelf and notch types.

The FX section, now includes six processing modules – compressor, drive, reverb, delay, chorus and phaser – and every parameter is available as a modulation target. The new arpeggiator offers host sync, groove/legato and rate/offset controls.

Finally, a new preset browser replaces the menu that was in previous versions of Twin. This offers freely editable tags for filtering within the search engine, and options to ‘favourite’ presets and assign them author names and text descriptions. Anyone who has FabFilter 1 or 2 installed will see all their presets show up in version 3.

Twin 3 is available now priced at $129/£109/€109. It runs on PC and Mac in VST/AU/AAX formats and you can also download a 30-day demo. Existing customers can log in to their accounts for Twin 3 discount offers.

Find out more on the FabFilter website.

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Casper + Bastl have introduced a new Eurorack module, Aikido.

Aikido is a unique mixer, VCA, and compressor and the latest collaboration between Peter Edwards, aka Casper Electronics, and Bastl Instruments. The module is a spiritual successor to Bastl’s quad VCA module Quattro Figaro (released in 2015) and Casper’s concept module Party Mix, demoed at Superbooth in 2018.

Aikido is a performative quad VCA mixer, with flexible submix routing and two styles of integrated envelope followers. Clever normalization allows ready-to-go sidechain compression, expansion, and rapid routing experimentation.

Clickless mute switches and level faders make for immediate performability, while dedicated attenuverters on each channel make it a powerful and flexible quad VCA.

The main mix output is accompanied by individual VCA outputs, with patch-programmable cascading mix routing. The Side Chain envelope follower offers 3 different response curves, while the Spectral Follower cane set to focus on treble, mid or bass frequencies.

In a modular system, Aikido can become your central mixing hub or a powerful utility. Thanks to the envelope followers, it allows signals to interact and mix in new ways. Because the VCAs are DC coupled, Aikido can be used for flexible modulation routing as well.

Features:

• 4 VCA channels, each with:
  • clickless mute with light indication
  • level fader with 6dB boost
  • CV input with attenuverter
  • input (DC coupled)
  • output (DC coupled) cascaded mixing
• Mix output (AC coupled)
• Side chain envelope follower
  • input (normalized to A input)
  • output (normalized to CV inputs) – switch to select response tim
• Spectral envelope follower
  • input taken from Channel D output
  • patchable output
  • switch to focus the follower to low, mid, or high frequencies
• Backside jumpers
  • select whether direct VCA outputs are pre/post Mute
  • cascaded mixing input and output (joins 2 Aikidos to 8 channel mixer)
  • main mix input and output (for chaining the normalized MIX outputs),
  • chainable with BUDDY

Aikido is available now, priced at €245 excluding tax.

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