Pioneering synthesist Jean-Michel Jarre shared his performance from the Closing Ceremony of the 2024 Paralympics, held Sunday, Sept. 8 in Paris.
The event celebrated 4,400 athletes from 168 Paralympic delegations, and featured a cast of 24 artists, representing all styles and generations of the French electronic scene.
Studio versions of the tracks performed are available on Jarre’s EP Paris Stadium.
Dreadbox has reissued the NYX synthesizer, a compact, semi-modular synth, with an ‘epic’ reverb.
They say that the NYX excels in producing richly harmonic sounds, due to its complex Routing, the Three Modulators, the Dual Filters, the Analog Oscillators and the Reverb, that provide additional movement to the sound and drastically affect its timbre.
Features:
Dreadbox NYX Video Intro:
The Dreadbox NYX Reissue is available now for € 270 + VAT as a DIY kit.
Future Sound Systems has introduced Cric, a fully-analog patchable synthesizer that they say is “designed to showcase our approach and attitude towards subtractive sound synthesis.”
Cric is an original design that’s not based on pre-existing instruments or the company’s Eurorack modules. It has been designed as a fully-fledged, standalone instrument.
What they have to say about it:
“Rock solid voltage-controlled oscillators give the user both pitch precision and FM flexibility. A comprehensive filter section affords timbral sculpting from basic filtering to total transformation of incoming tones. Four cyclical function generators can be used as envelopes, LFOs or even audible VCOs.
Pin matrix patching allows for the synthesizer to be configured as a standard triple-VCO subtractive synth, or a paraphonic synth, or a drum machine, or a noise box, and so the list goes on.
Four inputs and outputs allow for audio processing, external CV control, feedback routing and more – there’s even a microphone pre-amp on input 1.
Steel casing, Mirrl-clad HIMACS end-cheeks and hand assembly and testing ensure a rugged and durable build quality.”
Cric Audio Demos:
Technical Specifications:
The Future Sound Systems Cric synthesizer is priced at RRP: £2,499.00 and is expected to be available 7th November 2024.
