Synthesizer Hardware Update & News August 2022
As we get moving on our blog, we are anticipating that some of you are like us, and have GAS hard. Getting new gear or just generally lusting after that incredible piece of noise making thing a ma bob hits most eventually.
If you’re a complete “in the box” producer, I commend you for never venturing out into the costly, expensive world and forever changing and expanding hardware and your wallet is probably the better for it.
For the rest of us, who have started a collection of odds and ends, of bleeps and bloop makers, this update is for you. Here’s the important news headlines, all in one place that we’re interested in.
Melbourne Instruments Nina Synth
We will start in the world of Synthesizers, and present a review for one of the most interesting synth products to be announced this last year.
The Melbourne Instruments Nina Synth, which uses rotary knobs, that move around when you make different adjustments, like a magician waving his hand over a deck of cards and having one float up in your face.
While this isn’t breaking news for this month, as the synth was presented at NAMM this year, we now have a kickstarter where you can go and get your orders in for this wizardry. It’s NOT cheap though, so be prepared to open that pocketbook.
What you do get for that investment, is an incredible sounding, 12 voice, polyphonic synth that will impress all your music making friends, or catch all your tears as you remember you make music, and so no one comes to visit you in your studio while you play on your keyboards.
WMD Synth News
The world of synths has also had some bad news, with two items that are worth reporting, even if they do make us sob uncontrollably into our pillows at night.
WMD, a eurorack module maker who makes instruments that are worth owning, announced that they won’t be able to keep the doors open after the end of the year.
This hurts the already weakened eurorack world, that was still getting over Mutable Instruments announcement of the same nature just a few months ago.
Get your eurorack modules while you can, if you’re into rat’s nest of cables, and plugging patches while your generative math modules spit out continually evolving goodness through your speakers. It’s going to be a dark winter in the module world.
Moog announcement
On top of this uplifting news, Moog recently announced price increases across the board to counter inflation, and the continued import taxes that are being levied on Chinese goods, which aren’t going away any time soon.
That means your grandmother is one expensive lady, and your matriarch is now in the upper echelon of womanhood costs. If you want a One, the amazing 16 voice synth that will make your best friend cry tears of joy when it plays (results not guaranteed) you’ll be ponying up a downpayment on an electric vehicle…..well it would be if you could buy a car right now, but good luck with that.
On a lighter note news from Lindell Audio
It’s not all bad news on the hardware front, there’s a new pre-order page for a vintage styled 1176 compressor from Lindell Audio at what can be considered a reasonable price these days.
It’s not shipping yet, but at this cost, it might be worth getting on the list, as hardware rack mounted compressors that have this vintage style, are going for a lot more than the pre-order price listed on their website.
Signing off
So that’s the news we’ve heard about hardware related items that we’re interested in this month, let us know if we missed something that you’ve got your eye on, or something that’s been sitting in your cart while you ponder whether top ramen is considered a food group good enough to eat for a year while you pay off the debt after you hit the purchase button.
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