Robin Vincent
Contributor at GearNews.com
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Robin Vincent - Molten Music Technology, synths, modular, Eurorack, audio, creative computers, news, reviews and music technology musings.
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1 week ago |
soundonsound.com | Robin Vincent
We explore the new Cinematic Lights virtual instrument. In January's v7.1 Studio One update, PreSonus gifted us a new virtual instrument called Cinematic Lights. It’s designed to blend heavily processed strings and brass with synth, modular and environmental elements to offer complex textures, smooth transformations and multiple layers of movie magic. Cinematic Lights is based on the core Presence XT engine and so is essentially a multisampled instrument library.
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soundonsound.com | Robin Vincent
Xvive’s ingenious modular interface puts foldback in the hands of the performers. The Xvive More You is one of those rare finds: an audio interface with a unique feature. It has the uncommon ability to expand and daisy‑chain itself into a whole band’s worth of personal monitoring and recording. While the name may make it feel playful and toy‑like, the reality of the system is far from it, and the more you get into it, the more problems it appears to solve.
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soundonsound.com | Robin Vincent
FlatSix captured my imagination last year with the Arp Of Darkness. I was so enraptured by the simple yet fascinating functionality that I made it my Sound On Sound pick of the year. FlatSix have released another module based on the same hardware but with a distinct firmware. It’s called the Seventh Summoner, and I was keen to see if it could hit the same high notes.
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1 week ago |
soundonsound.com | Robin Vincent
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1 month ago |
soundonsound.com | Robin Vincent
VCA faders offer a powerful way to control your levels in Studio One. When you have large projects containing many tracks, there comes a point where mixing starts to feel a bit unwieldy. Studio One has a few tools that can help you handle that, such as routing buses and groups. However, there’s another way to take the leg work out of mixing, and that’s through the use of VCA channels. We’re going to look at how the VCA channel could be the secret mixing weapon you’ve never got around to trying.
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Molten Music Monthly time! Lots of software this month, thoughts about music shops and the future of synth access in Norwich https://t.co/Z7iush8AYI
My deep space walk into the Monumatic is up on YouTube flooding your Eurorack with polyphonic synth soundscapes and the odd stab. https://t.co/Zgo0LrgLKf
I'm on Sonic State shortly!