Behringer has introduced the Groove Keys, a new keyboard groovebox that’s similar to Arturia Keystep Pro with a built-in sound engine.
The interface appears to be closely modeled on the Keystep Pro, but with additional controls to support the internal sound engine:
Features:
4-Channel Sequencer
Dedicated Drum Sequencer
Internal Polyphonic Sound Engines
Wide range of MIDI and CV/Gate I/O options
Behringer says that they do not have a delivery date or price yet, because they’re “still waiting for chips”, adding that they have close to 100 new products in the works.
To be ‘in tune’ is often seen as one of the key tenets of music, but for producers, there are benefits to some pitch instability. And Pitch Drift, a new free plugin from Baby Audio that can provide precisely that.
Powered by the Drift algorithm in Baby Audio’s Super VHS plugin, this introduces variable amounts of pitch fluctuation so that you can make your potentially sterile digital tracks sound more natural.
The effect can range from subtle instabilities to extreme detuning. You can set the depth of the effect with a slider and hover over the screen to adjust the speed.
Baby Audio says that, as a general rule of thumb, the less sustained your source material is, the faster you can set the speed parameter. Conversely, if you are working with lengthy sounds or an entire mix bus, you are better off keeping the effect subtle.
Manecolabs has introduced it’s latest Eurorack module in their Grone line of drone machines, Grone Wave.
Grone Wave is based on a lofi sample player engine, with 4 banks of up to 16 8-bit samples. They say that “you’ll find all kind of textures and accidents useful for ambient, musique concrete, noise and whatever nightmares you imagine.”
You can control pitch, sample start and end points, and reverse them. In addition, there’s an external trigger input for retriggering from sync signals, gates or clocks.
The sample then passes through a MOJ transistor ladder low-pass filter, with resonance. The filter is also modulated by a multi-waveform LFO.
Effects are provided by a special Clouds version, with dedicated feedback, pan blend and reverb sliders to provide intuitive and immediate control. Grone Wave is available now for $465.
