Midweek Modular: Alia Oscillators, Mega Utils, Big Waves and an Atlas
24 Jan 2024 in Synths
This week's Midweek Modular finds new Alia firmware, gets into Mega Milton, enjoys The Wave Transformer and gets interpolated filtering with Atlas.
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Korg NTS-1 MkII: Mighty morphing mini-synth gets an upgrade
19 Jan 2024 in Synths
Korg's original logueSDK-empowered mini-synth and effects box gets a major overhaul. The NTS-1 MkII gets more oscillators, more effects, a sequencer and an improved keyboard.
ADDAC Swell Physics: Cast yourself adrift on a sea of modulation
18 Jan 2024 in Synths
The Swell Physics ADDAC508 simulates the movement of the ocean to generate voltage that follows the bobbing of tethered buoys. Intrigued? Read on.
Korg KingKORG Neo: Behemoth VA Synth returns in compact form
18 Jan 2024 in Synths
The rather underwhelming VA synthesizer has returned to terrorise us in a smaller format. Can the KingKORG Neo restore our faith in VA?
Midweek Modular: SideBands, Proximity and Bluetooth
17 Jan 2024 in Synths
This week in Midweek Modular we find FM in the SideBander, wave our hands at AIRLECTRON and pump wireless audio into our Eurorack.
Deal: Behringer SWING controller now priced at €65!
Behringer rearranges the SWING controller to look a little bit less like the Arturia KeyStep and announces that it's now priced at €65.
Dtronics DT-303: Acid Distortion in Three Flavours
13 Jan 2024 in Synths
The TB-303 on its own is never quite enough. Dtronics can blast it with 3 types of novel distortion from the DT-303 Acid Sound distortion box.
Bastl Instruments Neo Trinity: Enter the Matrix of Modulation
11 Jan 2024 in Synths
Take the red pill and dive into the rabbit hole of Neo Trinity's six channels of LFOs, Envelopes, recordable triggers and automatable modulation.
Midweek Modular: DXG bongs, Prizma complexities and pulling on Strings
10 Jan 2024 in Synths
In Midweek Modular this week we're bonging with the DXG, sequencing with the Prizma MkII and pulling strings of modulation out of our Eurorack.
Outersect Modeler: Trippy Acoustic Modelling born at Burning Man
08 Jan 2024 in Synths
Outersect Modeler emerged from classical musician and coder Rob Rayle's experience at the Burning Man festival. Was it the drugs or something more transcendental?
Midweek Modular: Tape scrubbing, Cooking sequences and DJ drops
03 Jan 2024 in Synths
This week we make loops with the uTape Scrubber, create 12-tracks of sequencing with Cuisine and play with the Stereo FX and DJ VCF from Erica Synths.
Best Eurorack of 2023: Granular, mixing, sustaining, morphing and more
03 Jan 2024 in Synths
The best Eurorack of 2023 ranges from the Brinta to the Endless, the Nano Mixer to the Tiptop ART and the wave morphing Acronym oscillator.
Midweek Modular: Major Tom, Wonky Snares and Psychosis
20 Dec 2023 in Synths
Midweek Modular takes us into percussion sequencing space with Major Tom, finds the perfect Snare in AE Modular and that it all ends in Psychosis.
Midweek Modular: DIY Hats, Nibbles and Daisy Seeds
13 Dec 2023 in Synths
This week in Midweek Modular we learn how to build a HiHat module, try to fathom bit accumulation, and plug a Daisy Seed into an FX Boy.
Midweek Modular: Auto mixing, precision adding and metallic percussion
06 Dec 2023 in Synths
This week's Midweek Modular discovers that Nano will let you automate your mixes, Befaco helps you transpose, and SSF has 2 channels of clangs.
Midweek Modular: Harmonics, Cross-Fades and Vintage Sequencing
29 Nov 2023 in Synths
This week's Midweek Modular finds us modulating harmonic oscillators, cross-fading like a DJ and vintage sequencing like the old days.
Midweek Modular: Modular for beginners, Toads and Quantizing
22 Nov 2023 in Synths
This week in Midweek Modular, we discovered My First Modular, The Toad 12-Stage Phaser and the coolest and most compact quantizer I've ever seen.
SOMA Labs Metaconformer: MIDI Merge, Thru, Split, Translate & Combine
20 Nov 2023 in Synths
Metaconformer is a MIDI processor to organise your MIDI hardware. It can split keyboards, translate notes to CC and combine monosynths into polysynths
Midweek Modular: Gnat filters, Tube Distortion and posh Patch cables
15 Nov 2023 in Synths
This week we saw a massive Gnat-based filter from Frequency Central, a Vacuum Tube Distortion from Stoel and Joranalogue do patch cables properly.
Doepfer A-100 Basic System 3: The perfect Eurorack for beginners?
09 Nov 2023 in Synths
Doepfer's long-running A-100 Basic System gets redesigned and modernised for its 3rd iteration. Packed with all you need to start a Eurorack journey.
Midweek Modular: Randomness, sampling and more cowbell
08 Nov 2023 in Synths
This week ST Modular gets deep into randomness, Sebsongs Modular does sampling the easy way and Nonlinearcircuits gives us more cowbell.
Xaoc Devices Batumi II: Updated Quad LFO powerhouse
06 Nov 2023 in Synths
The classic 4-channel LFO module gets some major improvements to bring us the Batumi II and Poti II expander for all your modulation needs.
Midweek Modular: øchd expanders, NextTuesday melodies and a Roland 120
01 Nov 2023 in Synths
DivKid massively expands the Ochd LFO, This is Not Rocket Science takes us to NextTuesday and AMSynths recreates an unreleased System 100m module.
ROLI Seaboard Block M: The mini squishy MPE controller is back
01 Nov 2023 in Synths
ROLI has reinvented the Seaboard Block MPE controller by giving it MIDI. The enigmatically named Block M is the squishiest controller on the market.