2026: A Year in Gear (What You've Bought or Want to Buy in 2026)

[pekbro]

Very cool, guy over at GS bought 2 though.
I think you’re falling behind there a little Justin3am. Just sayin.

[justin3am]

Very cool, guy over at GS bought 2 though.
I think you’re falling behind there a little Justin3am. Just sayin.

Yeah, I can see wanting two for stereo. It really sounds sweet with subtle settings and it can get wild and out of control pretty easily. Lots of range in between.

[justin3am]

ooh nice. they do some lovely stuff.

The ones I've tried have all been really cool. Shallow Water in particular. It's really easy to over use that one. It sounds good on everything.

This patch involves Placeholder showing its uglier, more unpredictable side.
https://3amnoise.net/music/2026/glorp_test-02.wav
Somewhere around halfway through you hear the pedal feeding back on itself, with lots of modulation.

[foosnark]

Okay, this is way better than I was expecting. Finally the "hyper-Rings" I have been waiting for.



It's expected to be out in autumn... I'm going to have to decide whether to stick to my "no more new hardware in 2026" thing and make this a 1/1/2027 purchase, or decide that the awesomeness justifies it.

[justin3am]

Okay, this is way better than I was expecting. Finally the "hyper-Rings" I have been waiting for.

That sounds really cool! I love funky resonators and this seems to cover a lot of territory.

[Constructed Identity]

Okay, this is way better than I was expecting. Finally the "hyper-Rings" I have been waiting for.



It's expected to be out in autumn... I'm going to have to decide whether to stick to my "no more new hardware in 2026" thing and make this a 1/1/2027 purchase, or decide that the awesomeness justifies it.

Yes, it sounds great and it makes it hard to plan out a new euro rack case with all these things coming out I already love their frequency shifter from a few weeks ago but I had in mind an 84hp travel case and euhm.

[elxsound]

First part of 3D printed case put together. I ran out of screws to assemble everything, but the brass fittings are all in. It was super easy, so thank you, Shabdabriah! The video helped.

I'm doing a quick heat test, followed by an update to CVilization soon to get the extra voices.

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[cryophonik]

Everything sounds better through the AR.

Do it.

Done!

Heck yeah! ARmk2 is such an awesome drum machine. I only recently started loading samples in mine and it’s opened a lot of new territory for me. It took me a lot longer to find my with with AnalogRytm than with OT and A4 but I’m glad I stuck with it!

ARmk2 finally arrived! The dynamic duo returns

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[vurt]

st, followed by an update to CVilization soon to get the extra voices.

they sound bloody awesome tbh, some of justins improvements to be added, including grouped voices (hopefully) soon

for now, all 4 in to xpan, stereo out to low pass on qpas

[elxsound]

st, followed by an update to CVilization soon to get the extra voices.

they sound bloody awesome tbh, some of justins improvements to be added, including grouped voices (hopefully) soon

for now, all 4 in to xpan, stereo out to low pass on qpas

Nice! Hoping to try it out tonight. Not enough time in the days lately, but hoping to carve out some play time.

I got the second case put together and now have to make some smart-enough module choices for the 2nd case.

[cryophonik]

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Swapped out my jet black TD-3 MO with the much cooler acid yellow one - mostly because I could NOT see the lettering on that black one in my studio and it was killing my eyes!

[Shabdahbriah]

First part of 3D printed case put together. I ran out of screws to assemble everything, but the brass fittings are all in. It was super easy, so thank you, Shabdabriah! The video helped.

I'm doing a quick heat test, followed by an update to CVilization soon to get the extra voices.

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Oh, that looks really nice! Glad I noticed this post. (I don't receive 'notifications'... too overwhelming.)

Well done.

[justin3am]

First part of 3D printed case put together. I ran out of screws to assemble everything, but the brass fittings are all in. It was super easy, so thank you, Shabdabriah! The video helped.

I'm doing a quick heat test, followed by an update to CVilization soon to get the extra voices.

IMG_2671.jpeg

Woah that's so cool!

The VCO update for CVz is also really cool. I haven't had 4 identical oscillators in my system for a long time. It's a lot of fun to feed the outputs back to its own inputs through a matrix mixer or something (good use for a second CVz, lol). I did set up a little polyphonic patch with CVz for oscillators, QMMG for filters Arba quad VCA and generating envelopes from O&C and a pair of Maths. It was a lot of fun, though tedious. It sounded really lush. I had the most fun using it to make drones. I just patched voltage offsets to the inputs and used faders to control the oscillator pitch for each channel. The front panel controls give you easy access to Octave switches and when mixed together, those four oscillators with sub-oscs can sound huge, even without the saw stack or chord modes.

[elxsound]

First part of 3D printed case put together. I ran out of screws to assemble everything, but the brass fittings are all in. It was super easy, so thank you, Shabdabriah! The video helped.

I'm doing a quick heat test, followed by an update to CVilization soon to get the extra voices.

IMG_2671.jpeg

Woah that's so cool!

The VCO update for CVz is also really cool. I haven't had 4 identical oscillators in my system for a long time. It's a lot of fun to feed the outputs back to its own inputs through a matrix mixer or something (good use for a second CVz, lol). I did set up a little polyphonic patch with CVz for oscillators, QMMG for filters Arba quad VCA and generating envelopes from O&C and a pair of Maths. It was a lot of fun, though tedious. It sounded really lush. I had the most fun using it to make drones. I just patched voltage offsets to the inputs and used faders to control the oscillator pitch for each channel. The front panel controls give you easy access to Octave switches and when mixed together, those four oscillators with sub-oscs can sound huge, even without the saw stack or chord modes.

Ooh, that sounds fun. I think that's going to influence what modules I place in the second printed rack. I have an extra Maths that I'll throw in and will need to think over the rest, but this is sounding fun.

[elxsound]

First part of 3D printed case put together. I ran out of screws to assemble everything, but the brass fittings are all in. It was super easy, so thank you, Shabdabriah! The video helped.

I'm doing a quick heat test, followed by an update to CVilization soon to get the extra voices.

IMG_2671.jpeg

Oh, that looks really nice! Glad I noticed this post. (I don't receive 'notifications'... too overwhelming.)

Well done.

Yeah, seriously thank for the video. I actually had fun doing it! Its helped that 3 misprinted sections got used as practice, but I got it on the 2nd try.

And I'm with you on notifications. I've been turning them off everywhere I can and it's been helping with reducing anxiety. And tiny bits of gummies doing their part too!