Sound Workshop shared this video demo of the Flexur T2, a new expressive synthesizer inspired by the classic Mixtur-Trautonium.
The instrument features two Trautonium-influenced floating touch bars that allow for continuous volume and pitch control.
This expressive interface is paired with a streamlined knob-per-function synth. They say that, while the synth engine has a constrained feature set, the expressive instrument is designed to reward weeks, months, and years of practice.
Features:
Two Floating Touch bars, 15mm semitone pitch, 23 semitones
Streamlined knob per function subtractive synth with interface optimized for expressive play
Preset, autotune, and mono/poly/arp settings
6×12 mod matrix with two routing pathways and dedicated intensity sliders
USB C connector for power and firmware updates
Generous IO to control analog and digital synths: Audio in/out, TRS MIDI in/out, USB C MIDI out, 2x expression/gate in, 4x CV out (pitch, gate, envelope, force).
Full sized balanced instrument cable jack for conveniently plugging into mixers, guitar pedals, and amps.
The Flexur T2 is available to pre-order for $1,399 (normally $1,599). Shipping is expected to take 6-24 months.
Behringer shared this preview for their D Mini Synthesizer, a compact synth that copies the name, styling and some synthesis elements of the Moog Minimoog.
Can a mini-synth capture the true Minimoog sound? Stranger things have happened. But compromises in the design include reducing the architecture down to a single VCO.
Features:
Based on the classic MiniMoog from the 1970s
VCO with 5 selectable wave forms, including saw, triangle, sharktooth, square and pulse
“Vintage-sounding” lowpass filter with resonance for those classic sounds
LFO with 4 different waveforms for amazing vibrato and filter effects
VCA with a dedicated envelope control
Variable envelope amount for filter cut-off control
White and pink noise with its own volume control
27 touch keys
18 controls for access to major functions
USB Type C allows powering via smartphone, power bank or computer
The Behringer D Mini is available to preorder, with a street price of about $120 USD.
Ellitone shared this video demo of the Groov~e Console, described as “a fun and mysterious interactive drum-machine and polyphonic-synthesizer”.
It automatically generates musical “grooves”, consisting of 3 individual sound layers: a drum-machine layer, an ambience-sample layer, and a polyphonic-synthesizer sequence layer. Each layer can be individually tweaked or swapped out.
Groov-e generates original rhythms and note patterns using a complex series of decision-trees and probabilities. A “nearly infinite” number of possible note patterns and rhythm combinations are possible.
The Ellitone Groov~e Console is available now for $325 USD.
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