Creative music tool creators K-Devices have released Fauve, a new audio effect, as VST3, AAX and Audio Unit plugin for MacOS and Windows.
Fauve is an audio processor that collects sonic fragments and replays them — but not always faithfully. It forgets, distorts, and glitches into new meanings, developers say, “like the hallucination of a broken machine.”
By continuously recording incoming audio, Fauve analyzes and breaks sound into small units called ‘collections.’ When playing them back, it sometimes fails, opening space for the user to edit and shape the material according to their own sonic vision.
K-Devices describes the effect this way:
Fauve can be a harsh distortion, a gentle shadow, a paroxysmal dance between reality and dream, and much more. It can slightly scramble your sound, completely strip it of its original meaning, or introduce subtle, almost imperceptible variations to make it richer, yet always organic. Fauve disrupts, but never destroys.
Fauve is a totem/series plugin, and like all totems, it follows its own logic. Timing in Fauve doesn’t rely on beats or note values — it is driven by the material itself. Every operation is triggered by zero crossings, making the outcome deeply dependent on the source. Even when using the same settings, it yields radically different results.
K-Devices Fauve is available now as a VST3, AAX, or Audio Unit plugin. Works with any 64-bits-compatible DAW, MacOS and Windows. Fauve costs €49, but can be obtained now through May 18 at an introductory price of €24. More information is available on the K-Devices website.
Xaoc Devices shared this hands-on demo of their new Samarkanda 1953 Resampling Delay Performance Station.
The Xaoc Devices Samarkanda is a digital quad delay module, with extensive patching capabilities and a lot of flexibility for signal mangling.
The Samarkanda can be used as four entirely independent delays, a dual stereo delay, a complex/multi-tap or multi-channel delay, a quad/polyphonic resonator, a dual chorus, a dual flanger reverb, a looper (with sound on sound), a granulator, or any combination of these functions.
Samarkanda is also truly modular – you can control almost all its features remotely with CV/gates, and the external feedback path gives you the opportunity to process the delayed signal with other modules.
Here’s a hands-on demo by DivKid:
Features:
Quadruple resampling delay
Lossless chaining of sections
Delay range of 0.5ms to 15 seconds per channel for a total of 60 seconds when stacked
Analog (tape-like) and digital (granular) sweep behaviours
Continuous, synced, and tap-tempo operation
Clock division and multiplication from 1:8 to 8:1
Buffer freezing and 1V/oct loop playback control
Reverse delay effect
Multiple options for coupling channels
The Samarkanda 1953 Resampling Delay Performance Station is available now for €620 MSRP.
Alesis Strata Club brings a new compact form to its best-selling range – a versatile e-drum kit with studio sound and silent practice capabilities.
Alesis has a new member of its Strata Drum electronic drum set family – the new Alesis Strata Club, all set to deliver the pro-quality performance of their Strata kits in a new Club format that’s perfect for compact spaces, be that a crowded stage or a spare bedroom.
The Strata Club is a full 7-piece kit that shares the latest tech with its bigger cousins. It’s therefore ideal as a compact kit in its own right, for use as a practice kit, or even for enhancing and expanding an acoustic kit for players looking for more variety and range.
Front and centre of the Strata Club’s eye-catching features is its 7” touchscreen drum module, as found on the Strata Core, featuring a multi-core processor bringing the kind of controllability and speed of set-up we enjoy every day on our smartphones into the world of recording gear.
That touch screen gives unrivalled, intuitive navigation, DAW-style mixing, and drum set customization, alongside six rotary dials, push encoder, transport controls, and dedicated volume knobs for different outputs.
And that extra processor power means that the Strata runs the full BFD3 sound engine, Alesis parent company InMusic having acquired BFD’s maker FXpansion in 2020.
Meaning that the Strata comes with one of the best and most expansive drum libraries around, being 25 GB in size with 144,000 individual samples across over 370 different kit pieces and 800 unique articulations, along with compressors, EQ, filters and other audio tools – all built into the Strata from day one.
And with great sounds and ease of use built in, the Strata won’t let you down on feel and playability either. Strata features high-quality mesh drum heads with adjustable tension for perfect rebound and Strata’s patented anti-hotspot sensor system for natural, expressive playing surfaces.
Key to the Club’s portability and footprint is its integrated rack system while still serving up a full 7-piece kit. This includes a 12-inch dual-zone mesh snare, a pair of 10-inch dual zone mesh toms and a 8-inch kick drum tower with a mesh head to deliver true-to-life rebound and response.
This is topped off with a 14-inch ARC triple-zone, 360° ride cymbal, a 12-inch ARC triple-zone, 360° crash cymbal and 12-inch ARC triple-zone, 360° hi-hat cymbal with Alesis’ Active Magnetic Hi-Hat Controller for extra realistic feel.
The ride and crash both incorporate ARC for 360-degree playing without dead zones, allowing players to choke cymbals by grabbing the edge just like the real thing, while the triple zones allow players to play bow, bell, and edge of all cymbals to trigger different variations on the sound.
You want even more? Go for the Strata Club Expansion Pack which adds one more 12” premium dual-zone mesh drum pad and one 16” ARC 360 triple-zone cymbal to the kit along with a new 28” crossbar and cables for easy connection to that drum module.
The new module features USB/MIDI connectivity for seamless DAW integration, owners get the full BFD Player desktop application with virtual drum expansion pack and there’s even a 90-day free subscription to drum tuition platform Drumeo incuded in as well.
“We’re proud to introduce the Strata Club, a kit designed to eliminate the compromise between space constraints and professional performance,” said John Boudreau, Director of Product Development. “We’ve engineered a solution that gives drummers and producers the authentic feel and sound they demand— without requiring dedicated space or soundproofing.”
The Alesis Strata Club is available globally includes Amazon website, starting today for $1,599 with the Expansion Pack coming in the early summer of 2025 for $349. Find out more on Alesis site.
