Bastl Instruments - News and Rumours
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Desktop Effects
Best Desktop Effects for Synths
12 Jan · Desktop effects for synths, grooveboxes, and drum machines are the perfect addition to any DAWless setup. We check out the best desktop effects in 2026.
Modular Control
How to Control a Modular Synth from a DAW (and Vice Versa)
03 Nov 2025 · There are various ways to control a modular synth from a DAW for sequencing and automation. We check out some of the most popular solutions.
Synth Journal
Elton John’s Mellotron Up for Auction, CITADEL, Novachord: Synth Journal
30 Oct 2025 · The Bastl Instruments Kastle series goes Eurorack, a handy web app makes sure you’ll never forget a patch again, and Elton John’s Mellotron goes up for auction.
Bastl Instruments Kastle 2 FX Wizard Firware Adds MIDI In/Out
27 Aug 2025 · The Bastl Instruments Kastle 2 FX Wizard levels up with USB MIDI in and out.
Bastl Instruments Kastle 2 Wave Bard: Now With MIDI!
27 Aug 2025 · Bastl Instruments updates its Kastle 2 Wave Bard with USB MIDI, letting you both send to the experimental sample player and get data from it!
FM SYNTHS
The Best FM Synths for your Music Production Setup
16 Dec 2024 · Looking for a way to get into FM synthesis? We've selected some of the best FM synths with both sound design and song-creation tools.
Best Synths of Superbooth24
24 May 2024 · Big polys dominated the show floor with the best synths of Superbooth24 coming from Arturia, Melbourne Instruments and Oberheim… but what about Moog?
Bastl Instruments Pizza Crust: Extra-Crispy Drum Module
16 May 2024 · Bastl Instruments Pizza Crust delivers hard-hitting drum and percussion sounds with FM, transient shaping, and hard clipping. Crunchy!
Bastl Instruments THYME+: Return of the Delay Robots
10 May 2024 · Bastl Instruments THYME+ brings back the robot-modulated tape delay goodness of the predecessor with a new design and updated hardware.
Synth Deals from Novation, Behringer, Arturia & more
28 Feb 2024 · In this week’s Synth Deals, we’ve got a little bit of everything: a portable synth, an analog poly, a genius problem-solver, and more!
Bastl Instruments Neo Trinity: Enter the Matrix of Modulation
11 Jan 2024 · Take the red pill and dive into the rabbit hole of Neo Trinity's six channels of LFOs, Envelopes, recordable triggers and automatable modulation.
Best Product Videos of 2023: Promo Clips that Rocked
02 Jan 2024 · Tired of dull promo clips? The best product videos of 2023 were anything from colorful to mildly disturbing – but never boring!
Bastl Instruments Kastle ARP: Pocket sized modular mayhem
22 Sep 2023 · Bastl Instruments' Kastle ARP is an alarmingly fun modular melody generator that forces sine waves through a digital waveshaper for tonal delights.
Midweek Modular: All the fun of the Superbooth fair
17 May 2023 · Superbooth was huge, fun and full of vigorous patching. Here are a handful of Eurorack modular products that stood out for me this year.
Superbooth 23: Bastl Instruments Basil Flexible Stereo Space Delay
10 May 2023 · Basil is more than a Pizza garnish, it's a creative explosion of flavour that will invigorate, modulate and pull you forwards and backwards in time.
NAMM 2023: Bastl Instruments Bestie – The mixer designed to sound bad!
12 Apr 2023 · The Bastl Instruments Bestie is a mini analogue mixer that’s been designed to overload with up to 20dB of additional gain possible on every channel.
Midweek Modular: Dominus, Thererec and Coma Reactor 2
08 Feb 2023 · This week we dig into the Dual VCO of Dominus, capture gestures through Thererec and get some delirious textual delays from Coma Reactor 2.
Bastl Instruments Aikido: Dynamic Quad VCA mixer with special skills
08 Feb 2023 · Aikido pits Bastl Instruments against Casper in a modular dojo of non-violent redirection momentum, VCA mixing and side-chaining dynamics.
The Best Eurorack Modules of 2022: Our Top 5 for modular mayhem
26 Dec 2022 · Despite the year's chip shortages we've seen some interesting and unusual modules this year. Here's my pick of the Best Eurorack Modules of 2022
Microgranny Monolith: The best Microgranny ever from Bastl Instruments
14 Oct 2022 · Microgranny Monolith takes the Microgranny 2.0 to its most iconic form and final evolution. It's a lo-fi granular sampling box with better everything.
Bastl Instruments Softpop SP2 gets an oscillator upgrade
03 Oct 2022 · The Softpop SP2 synth is getting an upgrade to add a digital VCO that comes with a raft of extra waveforms, features and a truckload of stability.
Midweek Modular: Superbooth 22 highlights
18 May 2022 · Superbooth 22 was a huge success, full of a vast array of electronic music-making machines. Here's what caught my eye in new modules and Eurorack.