SPL Premiers Attacker, Mo-Verb & De-Verb MicroPlugs

SPL has premiered three new plug-ins for its new Analog Code MicroPlugs series: Attacker, Mo-Verb and De-Verb. The “MicroPlugs” employ SPL’s Differential Envelope Technology that feature dynamic processing with a level-independent method. This different approach allows the plugs to forego the setting of a threshold. Other parameters are set automatically and in a musical manner as they follow the characteristics of...

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The LinnDrum II Is Dead

The LinnDrum II, a collaboration between Roger Linn of MPC fame and Dave Smith of analog synth renown, appears to be DEAD. The “MPC for the new millennium” – as some have described it – doesn’t seem to have enough juice, on several levels, to garner a viable release. The LinnDrum II was initially touted as a new musical instrument for the real-time creation and improvisation of beat-oriented music, both...

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