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French synth maker Cyma Forma has announced the ALT, an ‘analog soundscape synthesizer’ that they plan to release via a Kickstarter project starting May 22, 2024. The ALT features five analog voices, a stereo filter inspired by the Korg MS-20, patch-matrix editing, 4 modulation sources and more.

Features:

• ALT offers five voices, each with different waveform shaping possibilities, each offering stereo panning, enabling a rich, spatial audio experience.
• A harmonic quantizer lets you chose scales, and play beautiful melodies, either with the faders, or with quantized pitch modulation.
• Alter – sound alteration can be achieved with a stereo filter, inspired by the Korg MS-20, and a “wild stereo delay” with infinite feedback.
• Movement – the matrix has 4 adjustable modulation sources: 2 LFO, 1 random step generator, 1 envelope follower; and 17 destinations.
• Light and sound sensors make it react and evolve with environmental stimuli.

Pre-orders for the ALT synthesizer will be available on Kickstarter starting May 22nd, 2024.

Did you know that most Elektron devices can also be used as a USB Class Compliant audio interface?

This offers an easy way to capture audio to your computer, mobile devices and tablets. The video demonstrates how easy it is to plug and record audio to your Apple device with no additional drivers, app or software needed.

It’s also discusses how you can record audio audio from any of your other gear sources by using your Elektron box as a USB audio interaface. As an example, the video demonstrates running the audio from a Roland TR-606 into the external input of the Syntakt , and then recording all the sounds, from both devices, directly via USB audio into an iPhone.

It also takes a quick look at how you can use the routing options to control what audio you route to USB. The default setting will send the main stereo outs, but you can also route specific tracks, the external inputs, etc. And the video notes that the Analog Heat+FX can also be used to process incoming audio from USB.

Watch the video and share your thoughts in the comments!

Resynator is a new documentary, and “synth resurrection project”, by director Alison Tavel that tells the story of a ‘lost’ synthesizer design of the 1970s, and its rediscovery.

The Resynator was invented by the Tavels’s late father Don Tavel in the ‘70s. Alison Tavel found the synth in her grandmother’s attic, 25 years after her father’s death, and has been on a mission to share it with the world ever since.

The Resynator is an instrument-controlled, monophonic, rack-mount analog/digital hybrid synthesizer. Invented by Don Tavel and engineered by Mike Beigel, the synthesizer can track the pitch of anything from the lowest note on a bass to the highest note of a piccolo.

The new documentary had its world premiere at SXSW in March, and won the Documentary Feature Audience Award. Details on screenings are to be announced. See the film website for more information.

Film Summary:

“In unearthing the revolutionary synthesizer her late father invented in the 1970s, Alison Tavel not only revives his mission to share it with the world, she unexpectedly forges a deep bond with the father she never got the chance to know.”

Directed by Alison Tavel

Executive Producer Grace Potter

Produced by Jon Lullo, Brendan Walter, Kathryn Robson, Sara Nesson, Christopher Noviello, Barbara McDonough

Edited by Kathryn Robson, Chris Gibson

Music by Chris Ruggiero

Animation by Danny Madden