Midweek Modular: The Godfather, DIY mixers & voltage controlled LFOs
29 Jun 2022 in Synths
This week The Godfather sold out on Indiegogo, Erica Synths gives us a mixer to build and AJH Synth has a tap tempo, CV-controlled LFO to play with.
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Erica Synths EDU DIY Mixer: Mix 3 channels with distortion
28 Jun 2022 in Synths
The latest module in the Erica Synths and Moritz Klein educational DIY modular series is a 3-channel mixer with built-in diode distortion.
Midicake ARP: Complex parametric MIDI arpeggiator
27 Jun 2022 in Synths
Midicake ARP is a desktop multi-channel arpeggiator that will sync to your sequencer and generate beautiful patterns of arpeggiating splendour.
Enjoy Electronics The Godfather: Semi modular multichannel audio processor
23 Jun 2022 in Synths
Live now on Indiegogo The Godfather offers 4 modular style audio channels with dynamics, filtering, effects and modulation in a tidy-looking 60HP unit
Error Instruments Loopman Field Player: Cassette action in the wild
23 Jun 2022 in Synths
You can now take your cassette tape loops out into the wild with experimental voltage control on the Loopman Field Player from Error Instruments.
Midweek Modular: Chain routing, matrix mixing and Roland filters
22 Jun 2022 in Synths
This week we saw more routing and matrix mixing, a new DSP platform, a Roland filter clone, spikey knobs and Goldsmiths hosts the EMS VCS4.
New AN-X synth incoming from Yamaha?
22 Jun 2022 in Synths
Yesterday Yamaha secured a trademark registration for AN-X and as it pertains to Musical Instruments. Something new or an evolution of a 90s classic?
Ouroboros Alea Taction: Still mysterious but touchable 2-voice synth
21 Jun 2022 in Synths
Alea Taction is a new version of the mysterious Alea 2-voice semi-modular synth but with a new aesthetic and touch plates for added crypticness.
Herbs & Stones Pathways: 4×4 modular matrix mixer that self-oscillates
21 Jun 2022 in Synths
Pathways is modulation, manipulation, feedback, creative routing and weird synthesis. All in a good-looking desktop box with room to patch and tweak. Now available!
Noise Engineering Legio modules spark a new 6HP Eurorack platform
21 Jun 2022 in Synths
With the two Legio series modules, Noise Engineering is releasing a new 6HP DSP platform for Eurorack that will load alternative firmware.
Unknown Devices Raiju: Percussive synth sent to bring punishment
20 Jun 2022 in Synths
Raiju combines a complex digital oscillator, an ADSR envelope and an analogue lowpass gate to produce thunderbolts and lightning in percussive form.
Frequency Central Looking Glass: smaller better featured matrix mixer
20 Jun 2022 in Synths
Following on from Frequency Central's Wonderland we now have Looking Glass which runs with the same idea in a more compact and enlightening form.
MicroDexed: an 80s home studio in a Teensy box
17 Jun 2022 in Synths
Floyd Steinberg is at it again with MicroDexed which offers 2 DX7s, a VA synth, drum computer, piano, audio tracker and effects in one tiny box.
ADDAC System ADDAC809: CV operated Chain Router and effects send
17 Jun 2022 in Synths
ADDAC809 is a dynamic CV-operated I/O router for audio or CV to find paths through 2 different chains before finding its way to a destination.
Roland JUPITER-4: Legendary synth now as a plug-in/plug-out emulation
17 Jun 2022 in Synths
Roland has announced the classically chunky and Compuphonic JUPITER-4 as an ACB modelled VST plugin or plug it out on your SYSTEM-8.
Midweek Modular: Cool cases, matrix mixing, Acid and fader banks
15 Jun 2022 in Synths
There's a new case while 8 faders offer CV automation, a matrix of 64 buttons gives routing and you can build a 303 with a series of DIY modules.
Abacusynth: Spinning wheels of synthesis in a digital physical hybrid
15 Jun 2022 in Synths
Abacusynth is a playful concept synthesizer that draws on ancient ideas and fidget spinners to create a tactile interface to explore synthesis.
Music Equipment Concepts Phrader Bank: memorable CV automation
14 Jun 2022 in Synths
The Phrader Bank from Music Equipment Concepts is an 8-channel CV generator Eurorack module that can record 30 seconds of automation per fader.
AtoVproject cDVCA: Class-D based waveshaping, VCA and filter
14 Jun 2022 in Synths
cDVCA is a new kind of VCA based on concepts inspired by Class-D amplification technology. It offers waveshaping, a trackable VCA and a simple filter.
Ge0synchronous Synths TB-Euro series: 303 Bassline modules
13 Jun 2022 in Synths
Fancy some TB-303 action in your modular? Ge0sync Synths has released the TB-Euro series that pulls the 303 VCO, VCF, envelope and VCA into Eurorack.
Frequency Central Wonderland: 8×8 micro inverting matrix mixer
10 Jun 2022 in Synths
Another take on the popular matrix mixer from Frequency Central in pre-built or kit form with push-button connections that can invert your outputs.
Nano CAIXA 104: Utility and style infused Eurorack case
09 Jun 2022 in Synths
The CAIXA 104 Eurorack case features an entire 104HP row of 1U utilities fully integrated into a stunning single row of 3U modular.
Midweek Modular: Rabbit Holes, Jazz Machines and Crocodiles
08 Jun 2022 in Synths
NAMM was a bit of a damp squib for modular but elsewhere Apollo View took us down the Rabbit Hole, EMW introduced System-15 from Brazil and more.
Black Corporation XERXES MK2: Limited run of updated synth
06 Jun 2022 in Synths
Black Corporation has announced that the XERXES is getting the MK2 treatment and enough chips have been found to build a limited run of 100.