Minuit has introduced Solstice, a new software synth for Mac + Windows that they say is designed to “Turn any sample into an explorable landscape.”
Here’s what they have to say about it:
“Solstice makes any sample into a unique, playable map, revealing hidden textures within your sounds. Made with ambient, experimental, and aleatoric music in mind, but versatile enough for any genre.
Solstice generates a unique map for each sample, clustering frames by timbre similarity. Click anywhere to play, drag to morph between timbres, or let it drift into patterns you didn’t know were there.”
Solstice is priced at €85. As of this post, it is available now as a 30-day demo. Minuit says that they are working to get their webshop up and running.
At Knobcon 2025, held Sept 5-7 in the Chicagoland area, Otter Mods introduced three new modules, which they plan to make available in both Moog and Eurorack modular synth formats.
The modules include:
The O.T.Te.R Oscillating Temporal Tesselation Repeater is a unique and versatile pattern generator style sequencer.
The Triquetra is a triple shift register module that produces syncopated gates and stepped CV output. Each register can be clocked and looped independently.
The Octet Itero is a traditional 8-step sequencer that can mute individual steps, adjust sequence length, and has multiple CV outputs.
Here’s a video overview of the modules from developer Elton Glover, via CatSynth TV:
The modules are available now in Eurorack format with the following pricing:
The O.T.Te.R – $300.00
Triquetra – $300.00
Octet Itero – $300.00
Glover told us that he expects to have the MU versions available within a few months.
Host Ziv Eliraz – in his latest loopop video – shares a hands-on review new Elektron Tonverk, a polyphonic multisampler and audio processor.
As ever, Eliraz first offers a comprehensive introduction to the instrument, showcases the instrument’s unique capabilities and offers some musical examples of its capabilities.
Topics covered:
0:00 Intro
1:45 Overview
2:50 Polyphony
3:35 Multi player
5:15 Memory
6:15 FX & sends
7:30 FX & buses
8:45 Routing
9:40 I/O
12:00 Panel tour
14:00 MIDI on buses
14:40 Presets
15:20 Projects
15:50 Pages
16:40 Single player
19:10 USB sampling
20:40 Multisampling
25:20 Sub trakcs
28:00 Super track
30:25 Effects
36:40 Send FX
38:35 Sequencing
39:25 Step edit
41:30 Seq lane
43:00 Transform
43:40 Mutes
44:20 Transpose
45:10 Chain & song
45:55 Recall/perform
46:50 Arp
47:40 Scales & chord
48:20 Setup
49:05 Pros & cons
53:55 Factory patterns
Watch the review, and share your thoughts on the Elektron Tonverk in the comments!
