Blog February 2022 - Make Synths not War!!

Holy Smokes! Robert has remade the fabled KVgear Vixen Mixer that never made it to the uk and now is no longer made...  i think it died a death due to bad noise problems which i’m sure Robert has NOT copied ... probably it isn’t battery powered either? 
 Anyway it was something i always had an urge to own and getting it from TW will feel even nicer ... i’m sure it will bring a few more non AE customers to the store as well.
 coincidentally this week i was eyeing up a very flawed but intriguing Volca Mix on ebay going for £59 .. but even at that price it seemed a weird purchase to make..
 
for the contentious filter name maybe..

Kuzmin
Olim ( after his wife who apparently inspired the synths ‘look’ ) 
Ostalgie 
Voks
Formanta ( after the factory where it was made , though could be confusing if people thought it was a ‘formant’ filter? )

I actually bought a used Vixen Mixer off Gumtree (it was quite expensive, because rare). It's one of the original blue ones from the Kick Starter campaign. I think it's not that bad noise wise, and the form factor and features are just what the Volca doctor ordered. A shame that the company stopped making them.

So Robert's mixer will fill that void left by an inadequate offering by Korg and the demise of the Vixen and I hope it will sell to thousands of Volca users out there.

BTW ... the VMIX-10 does not run on batteries, but comes with power supply included.

Yeah i think Kuzmin Filter has a nice ring to it! Or VK-Filter?

That stand-alone mixer looks incredible, i hope it brings some new attention to TW from outside the modular-verse. This would definitely have piqued my interest back when i was looking for a Volca mixer (eventually ended up with a Bastl Dude). Definitely more appealing than the weirdly half-baked official korg mixer.

Ok, late to this thread… call it the Supreme Soviet and put a hammer and sickle logo on it! That will differentiate it from the current Russian administration and add some marketing fizz to it. Or go one step further down the Road to Hell and put Lenin’s face on it. In fact you could just get ridiculous with Marx and Lenin’s profiles and various Cold War slogans all made very cartoon like and tiny on the faceplate.

Kuzivoks. Looks Russian. Sounds Russian. No politics nor even a hint of misunderstanding.

yes, i was looking forward to it , they had a UK distrib/outlet set up and i was on the mailing list for availability of the Vixen but it never materialised here!!
i’m intrigued by the idea of the AE version in a 12 (or 16) case with some extra modules , it’s hard to tell from the picture but do you know the unit size of the mixer , i’m guessing 8u , though the black panel selection on the TW site says 4u !! which can’t be right. if it had a power input ( on the side, old style ae? ) it would help.

The VMIX-10 is really cool ! It's the first standalone Tangible Waves product no ?