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Ryoji Ikeda, an audiovisual artist, arranged an unprecedented show scheduled for October 15 within the Red Bull Music Academy Festival Los Angeles 2017. “The world’s biggest synthesizer orchestra” comprised 100 cars singing out 100 A’s – A [for 100 cars] is the name of the performance.

Eventide joins the mainstream, Elektron reminds of itself with definitely good news, Russian brand is wiiling to feature its own Mellotron, Electro-Harmonix Slammi Plus pedal fights back Digitech Whammy, Antelope Audio and PreSonus have something to share as well.

Octagon Centre, Sheffield, held the SynthFest UK 2017. Small and big modular manufacturers have shown up luring with new products. Roland, Korg, Moog, AJH Synth, Tasty Chips, Modor, Radikal Technology and others were here to catch your eye while the seminar room was to catch your ear for sure: Radiophonic Workshop shared some stories about Oramics synth machine, surround sound performance. Steve Levine has produced a number of Culture Club’s hits and collected a significant row of synths to boast of. Will Gregory, who’s worked with Tears for Fears, Peter Gabriel and Portishead, joined the VIP Roundtable discussion.

Bastl Instruments features the Thyme effects processor, Erica Synths introduces the Erica Black VCF module, Dreadbox Hades ands Elektron Octatrack MkII are shipping. Two new Kickstarter projects launched by Kvgear and KOMA Elektronik.

Stylophone got its upgraded version - Stylophone GEN X-1. The stylus keyboard instrument which used to be a market hit and drew attention of popular music acts keeps pushing its history through the years.