Midweek Modular: Touchplate controllers and Fyral baroque computers
07 Jun in Synths
This week we encountered an oval drone machine capable of touch and banana jack patching, a synth controller with many shapes and a MIDI interface.
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The Biggest Foot: Control your Eurorack with a Wii Balance Board
05 Jun in Synths
Dig out your Nintendo Wii Balance Board and have it control your Eurorack while you pretend to surf, wobble and lean yourself into your music.
Midweek Modular: Time Machines, NTS-1 for Eurorack and Space Age Pop
31 May in Synths
We step through eight delay lines on our way to retrofitting a Korg NTS-1 into Eurorack and relaxing into the filter of the master of Space Age Pop.
AMP Electronics Star Song: Orbital optical rotating sequencer
30 May in Synths
From the minds of A Magic Pulsewave comes a cosmic sequencer programmed by a rotating optical disc with seven rings of orbital voltage generation.
Behringer SPICE: The long expected Subharmonicon clone is revealed
30 May in Synths
Behringer completes its tryptic of Moog clones with SPICE, a colourful take on the Subharmonicon. Apparently, there are more of this style to come.
Czochralski Cells: Complex percussion adventure
26 May in Synths
The extraordinary-looking Czochralski Cells from Destiny Plus is a configurable six or seven-voice complex electronic drum instrument.
Midweek Modular: Formant filters, 8-step sequencers and a reverb
24 May in Synths
The dust has now settled on Superbooth, so we can return to wandering the internet looking for interesting bits of modular to have a look at.
Moog’s 70th Anniversary: Win a Model D and explore the Mini Moog Factory
23 May in Synths
Moog Music has partnered with the Bob Moog Foundation to give away a 2022 Minimoog Model D and invite you on a Mini Moog factory virtual experience.Â
Midweek Modular: All the fun of the Superbooth fair
17 May in Synths
Superbooth was huge, fun and full of vigorous patching. Here are a handful of Eurorack modular products that stood out for me this year.
Behringer Four LFO Euroack modulation source
16 May in Synths
The Four LFO is Behringer's take on that solid source of modulation, the XAOC Batumi. It offers excellent LFOs in a cheaper and less lovely package.Â
Superbooth 23: Gamechanger Audio Plasma Voice
16 May in Synths
Gamechanger pulls their plasma tube circuit into the Eurorack space to explore the possibility of electrically discharged waveforms.
Superbooth 23: Jam Sandwich, the inclusive sequencer from Electro Jam
15 May in Synths
The Jam Sandwich is a 4 x 4 grid sequencer with clickable LED encoders. It's designed for the visually impaired but could be a filling we all need.
Superbooth 23: Alter Audio Timetosser for Eurorack
15 May in Synths
Alter Audio's time travelling live audio resequencer, or Timetosser, is being ported to Eurorack and things could get awesome & hilarious very fast.
Superbooth 23: Black Noise Modular Cosmos – massively multi-functional
15 May in Synths
Cosmos bakes a universe of functionality into a completely mysterious front panel that invites exploration and possibly complete madness.
Superbooth 23: Flame Instruments FIRE percussion synth
15 May in Synths
Flame has an 8-channel polyphonic drum and percussion synthesizer called FIRE. I wonder how long Flame has held onto that product name?
Superbooth 23: Bela Gliss touchstrip Eurorack control
15 May in Synths
Gliss is a simple and delightfully interactive strip of touch-based Eurorack control that could be ridiculously useful in your Eurorack.
Superbooth 23: Eowave Tempéte Magnétique and Space Line of modules
15 May in Synths
Eowave was showing a bunch of new modules under the name "Space" including the Tempéte Magnétique filter, Richochet quad VCA and Supamix mixer.
Superbooth 23: Crosspatch Triggerpad dynamic trigger sequencer
12 May in Synths
Triggerpad is a trigger sequencer that uses an 8x8 MIDI grid controller to create the patterns. Plug a Launchpad or APC straight in, and off you go.
Superbooth 23: Lambda Synthetics PolyPulse Algorithmic Groovebox
12 May in Synths
PolyPulse is a live performance workstation with unconventional algorithmic and polyrhythmic sequencing of FM and additive synthesis and sampling.Â
Superbooth 23: SilverMachines R-Enigiser and Monolizer
12 May in Synths
SilverMachines has a new batch of the Orgon Systems Enigiser replica, the R-Enigiser and a new semi-modular synth with an innovative CV bus system.
Superbooth 23: Elta Music Solar 42 Microtonal Polyphonic Ambient Machine
12 May in Synths
Elta Music has condensed and enhanced the Solar 50 down to the still-stunning Solar 42 Ambient Machine for drones and awesomeness.
Superbooth 23: Morphor Ensemble 8-voice BBD Chorus
12 May in Synths
Morphor successfully kickstarted the AP-1 plucked module last year. This time we have Ensemble, an analogue eight-voice BBD Chorus.
Superbooth 23: This is Not Rocket Science Bopp & Steve Space Effect
11 May in Synths
Bopp & Steve connects your fingers to floating bits in space, patches the virtual into reality, and deconstructs audio paths. What is it all about?
Behringer SOLINA String Ensemble available for preorder
11 May in Synths
Behringer has completed the development of the SOLINA String Ensemble. The recreation of the classic string machine will ship once the required chips are available.