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Future Retro’s eye-popping Vectra synth is now available for pre-order. With its 29-note capacitive touch keyboard and prominent joysticks, the new Future Retro Vectra looks quite unlike any other synth on the market.

The Vectra offers plenty of features: four oscillators, white and pink noise sources, four ring modulators, a four-channel mixer, five LFOs, six morphing envelopes, six primary multimode analogue filter types, a main analogue VCA, and numerous internal modulation routings and VCAs controlling modulation amounts.

Future Retro says that the Vectra nods to synthesis techniques of the past while bringing some new ideas to the table. The digital oscillators offer standard analogue modelled waveforms and a further 500 digital waveforms, and we’re told that a wide variety of sounds can be created.

In addition, there’s an arpeggiator and sequencer, while standard MIDI ports mean that Vectra can easily be hooked up to other gear in your studio.

Although the interface is definitely unique, it’s designed to be easy to use, with the assignable joysticks making it truly hands-on. Buttons, knobs, and a central display are also present.

Find out more on the Future Retro website.

The Future Retro Vectra is available to pre-order now for $1,100. A $550 deposit is required to place a pre-order. Shipping is expected to begin in spring 2022.

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With the Black Friday music deals machine starting to kick into gear, Slate Digital has announced that you can currently download every single one of its sample packs for free. These are all royalty-free, so you can happily release any music that you make with them.

Grab these royalty-free sounds while you can. There are 16 packs in total, including four new ones that cover contemporary R&B, pop, ambient electronic and modern guitar. Other packs deal with (among other things) vocals, EDM and classic drum machines.

Taken together, the packs provide you with thousands of grooves, hits, one-shots, vocal chops, melodies, guitars, keyboards, drums and more, all created by top session players, singers and producers.

Find out more on the Slate Digital website.

The packs will be available for free until 31 December 2021. You will need to create a Slate Digital account in order to download them.

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Eventide says that its new SplitEQ plugin operates in a “fundamentally different” way to traditional equalizers.

Eight-band processor and split audio into transient and tonal streams.

At first glance, it might look like a standard eight-band parametric EQ, but then you have to take the Structural Split engine into consideration. This promises to divide incoming audio into two streams – Transient and Tonal – so that they can be processed separately.

Eventide claims that this approach mimics the way that humans can separate tonal and transient streams, and can help to make typical EQ problems easier to solve while opening up new creating options.

As well as being able to cut or boost tonal and transient elements individually, you can also use SplitEQ more creatively, thanks to the independent left/right mid/side panning options.

There is a strong visual element to the workflow, with a real-time spectrum analyzer enabling you to see what is going on with your sound. You can solo streams or bands, enabling you to focus on problem areas and sort out problematic resonances or transients.

“We’re incredibly proud of what our developers have accomplished,” says Eventide’s founder, Richard Factor. “They’ve built on the Structural Split technology at the heart of our earlier plug-in, Physion, to do something truly groundbreaking: SplitEQ is a fundamentally new type of musical tool.”

Find out more on the Eventide website.

SplitEQ is available now priced at $99 (regular price will be $179) and runs in VST/AU/AAX formats on PC and Mac. You can also download a 30-day demo.

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