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The Analog Heat +FX is a comprehensive tool for sound modulation and manipulation, providing a broad spectrum of effects for endless processing possibilities. This all-around sound coloring box allows users to explore and experiment with their unique timbres and signal flow. From subtle enhancements to complete destruction, the Analog Heat +FX accommodates any sound source and destination. Its features include eight fully analog stereo distortion circuits, each with its distinct sound processing characteristic, and digital effects, like Warble, Chorus, Delay, Reverb, Bit & Sample rate reduction, Compressor, and Bass Focus, designed to add texture, movement, and unique tonal qualities to your sound.

The device is equipped with a Flow page where users can rearrange, mute, and unmute effects to create their own sound timbres. With a storage capacity for 512 presets, users can easily save and recall their sonic explorations. To shape the frequency and overtone content, the Analog Heat +FX offers a resonant multi-mode filter and a 2-band adaptable EQ. The modulation options in the Mod page, including envelope follower and 3 multi-waveform LFOs, provide more depth for sound exploration. The device also supports a variety of control inputs, MIDI options, and USB connection for seamless integration with other devices and computer systems. The Analog Heat +FX not only excels in enhancing individual tracks but also shines on the master bus, and can double as a sound card, making it a perfect addition to any studio setup.

The Polyend Tracker Mini is the latest and most advanced addition to the Tracker series, offering a compact and standalone audio workstation. With eight tracks for sequencing stereo audio or MIDI, audio-over-USB capabilities, and a built-in battery and microphone, this device boasts high-quality buttons and an array of cutting-edge sampling and sound design tools. Improved signal pathways ensure increased headroom and crystal-clear audio playback, while genre-specific sample packs facilitate a smooth introduction to music production.

Perfect for hybrid setups, the Tracker Mini quadruples the sampling time of its predecessor and provides USB MIDI functionality. Users can apply individual track effects, record directly to a laptop, or mix and master in a DAW. The onboard battery offers up to 8 hours of playtime, allowing you to transform any environment into a musical landscape. With the provided travel case, the Tracker Mini is ready to accompany you on any adventure, inspiring creativity and breaking free from traditional studio confines.

Teenage Engineering adds to their Field line with the CM-15, a portable large-diaphragm condenser microphone, perfect for on-the-go recording needs. This all-in-1 mic boasts a combination of 48v phantom powered mini XLR, USB-audio interface and preamp, 3.5 mm line output, and battery power. Large-diaphragm capsules, typically reserved for professional recording, are a rarity in portable equipment, but the CM-15 breaks that mold. Featuring an ESS Sabre analog-to-digital converter, it preserves high-fidelity sound and captures exceptional detail in any recording situation.

The CM-15 delivers a clean, rich, transparent, and natural sound, with a gain switch on the back to cater to various recording environments. Battery-powered and equipped with an integrated audio interface and preamp, this lean-operation mic is always ready for use. The large-diaphragm condenser capsule ensures less noise and better depth of sound, making it incredibly versatile both inside and outside the studio. With multiple outputs, including mini XLR, 3.5 mm jack, and USB-C, the CM-15 offers simultaneous connectivity options and automatically detects the right power source for your device. 

The Teenage Engineering TP-7 is the latest addition to the portable Field system, an ultra-compact digital recorder designed to fit comfortably in the user's hand. The control layout is intuitive, with functions like fast forward, rewind, record, and mode select assigned to different fingers. A standout feature is the motorized tape reel, powered by a finely engineered brushed motor with ball bearings and a sensitive hall sensor. This reel allows users to interact with their recordings in a tactile way, being used for scrubbing, pausing, menu navigation, and providing visual feedback during playback and recording.

The TP-7 is designed with versatility in mind, serving as an excellent tool for conducting interviews, podcasting, voice memos, field recording, and live performances. It can connect up to three external mics, or use the internal mic, and monitors audio levels with a VU meter and headphones. The device also features an internal mic, three input jacks, a 7-hour rechargeable battery, making it perfect for recording samples and ideas on the go. Other specifications include 3x stereo two-way jack input/output/headset connectors, a stereo headphones connector, an internal microphone and speaker, 128GB of internal storage, a 24-bit/96 kHz USB audio interface, Bluetooth Low Energy, and a 64x32 pixel monochrome display.

The OB-X8, now available as a powerful and portable desktop module, brings the legendary analog synth sound back after more than 40 years. This compact version, ideal for any studio, music, and lifestyle, offers the same sound engine as the keyboard version, featuring an all-analog signal path with discrete VCOs, VCAs, and filters. It provides a knob-per-function sound designing experience for easy and precise sound creation. While the paddles and keybed are absent in the module version, the Arpeggiator and Keyboard Split & Double functionality are preserved, making the OB-X8 desktop ready to use with your favorite controller.

The OB-X8 delivers the classic OB sound, filled with warmth and punch that made tracks by artists like Prince, Van Halen, and Rush so iconic. It comes with the classic OB-series factory sounds and includes new sounds crafted by world-class sound designers. The OB-X8 combines the three different voice architectures of the OB-X, OB-Xa, and OB-8 into one instrument, replicating their individual filter types and other unique characteristics. It also allows mixing elements of different models for new sound possibilities. The design team painstakingly analyzed and recreated the complex interactions between the various components of each OB-series synth to capture their nuances and character. The 2022 Page 2 parameters include additional SEM filter modes, per-voice panning, LFO keyboard tracking, Mod delay time and envelope inversion, independent pulse width control, and more.

The S-1 Tweak Synth is a powerful micro polysynth, inspired by the iconic Roland SH-101, capable of producing expressive leads and snappy basses, while also offering futuristic wave manipulation, onboard sequencing, and unique performance features. It merges retro spirit with advanced capabilities, featuring the company's evolving Analog Circuit Behavior (ACB) technology, delivering authentic tones of the 80s monosynth. The S-1 is a compact, portable device that extends the original's design with four-voice polyphony and a plethora of innovative features, making synthesis exploration accessible for musicians of any skill level.

Designed as a sound design and performance powerhouse, the S-1 is equipped with tactile controls that enable lavish tones creation through oscillator, envelope, filter, and LFO sections. With a 64-step sequencer, 64 patterns, and 26 multi-function pads, it offers a keyboard with a two-plus octave range, step sequencer interface, and a variety of creative options. It pushes classic SH tones into new dimensions with its OSC Draw and OSC Chop functions. The S-1 also offers a selection of classic Roland effects and comprehensive connectivity for sync with other devices or DAWs, making it an ideal standalone sound module or a component of a larger performance rig. Its lithium-ion battery ensures up to 4.5 hours of runtime per charge, promising instant inspiration anytime and anywhere.

The Make Noise/soundhack Spectraphon is a dual Spectral Oscillator devised by Tom Erbe of soundhack. It leverages real-time spectral analysis and resynthesis to generate unique sounds from existing ones, drawing inspiration from past electronic musical instruments like spectral processors, additive synthesis, vocoders, and resonators, specifically the Buchla 296 and Touché. The Spectraphon takes a form closer to the classic analog dual complex oscillator, following the lineage of the Buchla 259 and the Make Noise DPO. Constructed on Make Noise's new digital hardware platform, the Spectraphon offers more I/O at higher resolutions and a lower noise floor, enabling the full potential of Tom Erbe’s DSP code.

The Spectraphon has two nearly identical sides, A and B, that oscillate in either Spectral Amplitude Modulation (SAM) or Spectral Array Oscillation (SAO) modes. In SAM, sound at the Spectraphon’s input modulates the amplitude of a set of harmonics, whereas in SAO mode, the Spectraphon oscillates continuously, using stored spectra arrays. The Slide and Focus controls are mode-dependent, controlling the Spectraphon's response to input sound in SAM, and modulating the Array in SAO mode. Regardless of the mode, the Partials control serves as a combined amplitude and timbre gate for the Odd and Even harmonic output, and the FM Bus creates high-definition internal frequency modulation. The two sides can also interact via the internal FM Bus, Follow and Sync modes, or by patching them together, showcasing the Spectraphon's versatility.

The PWM Instruments Mantis Duophonic Hybrid Analog Digital Synthesizer is a duophonic hybrid-analog synthesizer designed by Chris Huggett and PWM. It has a modernized design architecture based on the WASP, with an OSCar style filter designed by Chris Huggett. The synthesizer has 37 full-sized semi-weighted keys that support both velocity and aftertouch, and a USB-MIDI control. It features two driftable digital oscillators and two independent voices, each with two oscillators plus sub-oscillator per voice. The Mantis has a pure analog signal path and multi-mode state variable VCA filters. Additionally, it has an arpeggiator with six modes, tap tempo, swing, and sync, and a unique duophonic arp mode.

Introducing Critter and Guitari 5 Moons, a multitrack recorder housed in a wooden enclosure that serves as both a creative recording tool and a gateway to explore new sounds. With layering, looping, and bounce down functions, 5 Moons allows for rich recordings and endless sonic experimentation. Its high-fidelity electronics and sleek user interface make it an attractive and versatile tool. The bounce down feature lets you combine tracks, while the USB-C port enables power and data transfer, allowing you to save, edit, and remix your recordings on a computer. The wood enclosure provides an aesthetically pleasing and inspiring base for your creations.