From putting your phone in your mouth and wobbling your jaw
to various vowel shapes through to software I'm sure most of
us love a good formant / vowel filter. There's not that many in
hardware and the new Motomouth from Limaflo offers one that
sounds fantastic! This is an analogue filter with digital control
provided vowel filtering with CV and gate control as well as the
obvious audio input and output. The demos on the Kickstarter
page sound great with very pronounced vowels and bags of
character and it's on it's way to getting funded by the time it
ends around the end of the month. Go support it, grab a module
and make it happen for everyone that wants one!
You may remember a bit of teasing about the NEW Pamela's
Workout from ALM Busy Circuits. The original Pamela's
Workout has been a long standing module in my system and I
used it in the alternate euclidean firmware pretty much
exclusively. Now users won't have to choose and they have all
the clock and rhythm generation as well as a load of
modulation making it a great hub of control for a system.
There's also two expanders with MIDI and DIN, or clock and
mini jacks to help integrate your modular further with Pamela's
NEW Workout at the hub of it all.
Music Thing Modular have offered a
new firmware (and a panel to match)
for their Radio Music module with
the Chord Organ. It offers control
over 4 basic waveforms and you
can control (knobs and CV) the
chord type and the root note. The
SD card contains information on the
chord types and users can change
these and create custom banks of
chords that work in a particular
situation.
The final bit of news for this month is
the new PICO MOD from Erica Synths.
They already offer envelopes and VCAs
in only 3HP and now you can have
both in 3HP. There's a AR or ASR
envelope (that can also loop) with lin
or log shapes coupled with a VCA in
one module. Great use of small space!
Erica Synths have their own video,
click HERE for that.