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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.
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.
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.
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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 completes its tryptic of Moog clones with SPICE, a colourful take on the Subharmonicon. Apparently, there are more of this style to come.
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The extraordinary-looking Czochralski Cells from Destiny Plus is a configurable six or seven-voice complex electronic drum instrument.
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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 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
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Superbooth was huge, fun and full of vigorous patching. Here are a handful of Eurorack modular products that stood out for me this year.
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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
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Gamechanger pulls their plasma tube circuit into the Eurorack space to explore the possibility of electrically discharged waveforms.
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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.
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Alter Audio's time travelling live audio resequencer, or Timetosser, is being ported to Eurorack and things could get awesome & hilarious very fast.
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Cosmos bakes a universe of functionality into a completely mysterious front panel that invites exploration and possibly complete madness.
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Flame has an 8-channel polyphonic drum and percussion synthesizer called FIRE. I wonder how long Flame has held onto that product name?
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Gliss is a simple and delightfully interactive strip of touch-based Eurorack control that could be ridiculously useful in your Eurorack.
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Eowave was showing a bunch of new modules under the name "Space" including the Tempéte Magnétique filter, Richochet quad VCA and Supamix mixer.
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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.
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PolyPulse is a live performance workstation with unconventional algorithmic and polyrhythmic sequencing of FM and additive synthesis and sampling.Â
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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.
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Elta Music has condensed and enhanced the Solar 50 down to the still-stunning Solar 42 Ambient Machine for drones and awesomeness.
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Morphor successfully kickstarted the AP-1 plucked module last year. This time we have Ensemble, an analogue eight-voice BBD Chorus.
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Bopp & Steve connects your fingers to floating bits in space, patches the virtual into reality, and deconstructs audio paths. What is it all about?
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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.