ATOV FaderPunk: PunkBus Eurorack Breakout Module and New Firmware Available
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ATOV FaderPunk and PunkBus · Source: ATOV
ATOV Faderpunk · Source: ATOV
ATOV Faderpunk · Source: ATOV
ATOV’s FaderPunk MIDI controller gets even better with a new breakout Eurorack module called PunkBus, and new firmware that adds three new apps plus Buchla 1.2V/Oct support.
ATOV FaderPunk
PunkBus
ATOV’s FaderPunk is something of a stealth MIDI/CV controller. With all kinds of different apps available, it can be pretty much whatever you need it to be, from a sequencer to an envelope and all points in between. ATOV also makes Eurorack modules, and it’s brought those two worlds together with PunkBus, a breakout module that brings FaderPunk connectivity directly into your rig with 19 jacks. You can also link two together and use them as a multicore connection between two Eurorack cases.
PunkBus costs €110 and is available from ATOV.
Firmware v1.10
FaderPunk owners will also want to head to the update page to get set up with firmware v1.10, which adds three new apps: acid pattern generator TB-3PO, generative sequencer GenSeq and Automator, a CV gesture looper. The firmware also includes Buchla 1.2V/Oct support, per-app quantizer bypass, phase-locked LFOs, a unified mute refactor across every app, and bug fixes.
ATOV FaderPunk
[8 May 2026] ATOV’s FaderPunk has to be the coolest MIDI controller, and it just got even cooler with a new firmware that lets you run Mutable Instruments’ Grids inside.
ATOV FaderPunk Can Now Run Mutable Instruments’ Grids
Superbooth is a wild time for all concerned. The manufacturers are busy getting all their new products out into the limelight, while the punters are having fun reading the news or playing with the gear if they happen to be lucky enough to be in Berlin. And then there’s us, the journalists, frantically checking email and refreshing social media for announcements of new products. That’s how I learned about this big firmware update for ATOV’s FaderPunk, and also how somehow Gearnews has never actually covered it. What?
Before I get to the meat of this news, then, let me get you caught up on the brilliance of this thing. FaderPunk is, at first blush, a MIDI/CV controller. It’s got 16 channels, each with a 60mm high-end fader by ALPS (DJs know), plus a mechanical RGB backlit button and a CV jack configurable as an input or output. You also get three auxiliary input/output CV jacks, MIDI in and out, and USB power and MIDI. Nice, but so far, so what?
This is what: the controller also hosts apps that can drastically change the functionality of the device. A quick look at the apps list reveals an AD Envelope, Random Triggers, a Sequencer, a Slew Limiter, and many more.
The Punk Does Mutable Grids
And that brings us to the firmware update. Version 1.9, which is available now, adds three new apps to the stable. They are Random+, with random CC/CV with assignable CV input, Clock Divider+, which is a clock divider with assignable CV input, and FP-Grids.
FP-Grids is a community-submitted version of Mutable Instruments’ open-source Grids topographic drum sequencer. Grids had essentially the interface of a Euclidean sequencer, but drum loops and computations for a brain, with common drum patterns used in electronic music that you can change via CV or manual control. This got ported to Faderpunk and works with its controls. You can see it in action in Starsky Carr’s video (below). Looks like there’s also a drum and bass alternative mode, too. Nice.
The update also includes sharper MIDI 14-bit CC and NRPN support, better clock swing, a new information page, and other improvements, but it’s the addition of Grids that makes it really cool.
Pricing and Availability
FaderPunk is currently available through ATOV for €650. They’re at Superbooth this weekend, showing it off. Hopefully, we’ll get some more demo videos of the FP-Grids mode.
Owners can download the firmware from the ATOV website.
More Information
- ATOV FaderPunk product page
- More about controllers
- Buy controllers at Thomann*
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