Organizers have announced that the SoundMit International Sound Sumit 13th edition will be held November 11-12 in Torino (Turin), Italy.
Soundmit will feature two days of events, including live music, instrument exhibitions, showcases, workshops, and masterclasses featuring international guests.
The event will be hosted at the Toolbox Co-working facility located at Via Agostino da Montefeltro 2, the same venue that hosted the successful previous edition.
Soundmit is Italy’s premier trade fair dedicated to synthesizers and the latest advancements in audio and music production technologies. The event covers a wide spectrum, including synthesizers, pro audio equipment, DJ gear, effects and guitar effects, music production software, digital audio workstations (DAWs), plugins, and studio gear.
This year, Soundmit is partnering with the AES – Audio Engineering Society, which will be conducting specialized seminars and adding a new dimension to the event.
The company was incorporated in 2013, and in the last decade has released a wide range of synths, including high-end keyboards like the Modal 002, Eurorack modules, the budget CRAFTsynth line, the portable SKULPT synthesizer, and the Argon8 and Cobalt8 keyboards.
In March of 2023, the UK Companies House – the organization that registers company information and makes it available to the public – gave first notice of plans to strike Modal Electronics off their register. This action was suspended, though, in April.
Today, though, Companies House gave notice that Modal will be struck off the register and dissolved after 2 months, unless cause is shown to the contrary. Unaudited financial statements published earlier this year show liabilities exceeding assets.
Modal is now in administration, which means that it’s now controlled by an insolvency practitioner, who will be responsible for trying to resolve the company’s situation or liquidating it.
u-he let us know that they’ve released Filterscape 1.5, an update that the company say offers improved performance, new analog-modeled filters and more.
The three plug-ins in the bundle are:
Filterscape FX:
Multi-band morphing EQ with various serial and parallel options for the 4 bands.
2 multi-mode filters with blendable lowpass, bandpass, highpass and notch outputs.
Tempo-synced stereo delay.
Modulation via MIDI, 2 LFOs, 2 step sequencers, the 4 envelope followers.
Selectable module routing, including filters in the delay path and post-delay envelope following.
Filterscape Q6, the dynamic specialist:
6-band morphing EQ including low shelf, 4 peak bands, high shelf.
Simpler user interface with larger EQ window and more prominent envelope followers.
Reduced to the max: no extra filters, LFOs, sequencers or chorus / delay.
Filterscape VA, the virtual analog synthesizer:
Polyphonic multi-band morphing EQ with various serial and parallel options for the 4 bands. Familiar architecture: 2 wavetable oscillators with FM and ring modulator, noise, sub-oscillator.
New lowpass, bandpass or highpass analogue filter models, 2, 3 or 4-pole variants.
3 LFOs, 3 ADSR envelopes with additional Fall / Rise parameter.
16-step arpeggiator / sequencer with up to 6 voices per step, additional modulation lane.
