It’s 15 days ago now that I got a few messages at 1 in the morning (local time in the Netherlands) from some friends of SoundForce, telling me that they think they just saw the SFC-8 during the SuperBowl national anthem performance ?

Obviously, I wouldn’t believe it at first. But by some unbelievable strike of magical luck, Jon Batiste performed the national anthem this year and the SFC-8 was standing on his piano on the left side. His wife painted his piano and she took the time and effort to paint the SFC-8 sides in the same pattern as well.

People were speculating on the internet about why is this device, along side a Maschine and a Novation controller, are standing there: https://www.musicradar.com/artists/why-did-jon-batiste-have-a-jupiter-8-plugin-controller-a-maschine-and-an-ableton-live-controller-sitting-on-his-piano-when-he-sang-the-national-anthem-at-the-super-bowl-were-still-not-sure

During the performance, mostly his piano and voice are present and some backing track is adding drums and extra orchestration. Maybe he changed his plans last minute. In any case, what I heard from his tour manager is that Jon Batiste is starting to experiment more with electronic elements.

This is an absolute trip to have a device broadcast to the wide world during such a massive event. People speculated that I sponsored Superbowl to get this feature, which is hilarious for me considering the size of my operation.

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I am very happy to present MOD 6, a powerful dual-function Eurorack modulation source.It was designed and developed to compliment the other modules in the juno-themed range of modules: DCO, VCF/VCA 6 and CHORUS 6. It is based on my work with the Dual LFO and Dual ADSR modules, with the goal of merging them together into a powerful dual-function next-level module. It can do a lot!

More info on the product page.

As usual, a high quality and very detailed demo video is available from DivKid:

The module is available right now, in my webshop and at schneiders laden, cicada sound, signal sounds and perfect circuit.

The german music tech site Amazone.de posted a long and detailed review of the SFC-OB:

https://www.amazona.de/test-soundforce-sfc-ob-controller-fuer-oberheim-plugins/

The article is quite detailed and precise, thanks a lot to Amazona.de and Markus Galla for taking the time.

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Many thanks to Olivier and his friend Luc from France for sending me this video. Both Olivier and Luc are visually impaired so the focus is on accessibility. I learned that you can turn on “voice over” and have vocal feedback when pots are turned and switches are pressed. This is an amazing feature to start learning an interface and getting used to the position and function of every control. I am very happy I can play a small role in their enjoyment of music technology!

Dirk E. from Amazona.de wrote a very long review (in German) of Samples II and I am happy to say he is enjoying the module a lot 🙂
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