Bastl Instruments - News and Rumours
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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.
Superbooth 22: Bastl Instruments Pizza, digital oscillator with extra jalapenos
11 May 2022 · Pizza is served with a complex slice of digital oscillations, waveshaping and FM. Take an incredible journey to discover new flavours and textures.
Softpop SP2: Love and chaos in a radically evolved subtractive synth
06 Jan 2022 · A rampant love affair between noise and melody, bangers and angels, bass and chaos, tied up in an effusion of sockets and sliders in the Softpop SP2.
Bastl Instruments is teasing Softpop 2 for the new year
21 Dec 2021 · The Bastl Instruments Softpop is a weirdly organic light and sound synthesizer with lots of playable faders. Softpop 2 is on its way and looks groovier than ever.
Superbooth 2021: Bastl Instruments BUDDY your new stereo mixing best friend
09 Sep 2021 · BUDDY is four channels of stereo mixing in a compact Eurorack module that also has preamps for line-level signals ideal for hybrid setups.
Kastle Drum: mini patchable industrial glitch machine from Bastl Instruments
03 Dec 2020 · Remember the Kastle pocket-sized patchable synth? Well, this is the Kastle Drum its unruly rhythm-based sibling for industrial glitchy grooves.
Revolutionise your synth jams with Bastl Instruments 3-voice Midilooper
10 Aug 2020 · The Midilooper was one of the coolest boxes to emerge over the virtual stay-at-home Superbooth and it's shipping now. Record your MIDI input, loop it, quantise it and route it to 3 different boxes.
Bastl Instruments MIDI Looper box and Eurorack IKARIE Stereo Filter
24 Apr 2020 · Bastl Instruments has revealed a couple of new products: a MIDI Looper in a desktop box and a new IKARIE stereo analogue filter in collaboration with Casper Electronics and inspired by space.
NAMM 2020: Bastl Instruments and Casper Electronics Waver wavefolding drone mixer
14 Jan 2020 · In my view, Casper Electronics and Bastl Instruments bring out the best in each other. This latest collaboration called Wave is a wave folding drone mixer.
OMG! Bastl Instruments has a mutes – LOL!
27 Nov 2019 · Somewhere, lost in the realms of internet shorthand Bastl Instruments has released an unfortunately named passive mute module called LOL.
Directional rhythms with the KOMPAS probability trigger generator
27 Sep 2019 · KOMPASS takes a non-linear approach to triggering and uses probability to generate new looping patterns depending on where you are heading in your three dimensional percussive adventure.
Casper Bastl Dark Matter is here to feedback your reality
07 Jan 2019 · Dark Matter will take your Eurorack audio to breaking point with 4 flavours of voltage controller overdrive while feeding back it's own resonant feedback crossfaded and crushed.
Superbooth 2018: Casper Electronics and Bastl Dark Matter Feedback module
04 May 2018 · Dark Matter takes a channel of an analogue audio mixer and pushes it past breaking point with a crossfadable feedback loop, envelope following and a riotously intense and unruly sound.
Superbooth 2018: Bastl takes on polyphonic MIDI-to-CV with 1983
03 May 2018 · With 1983 Bastl wants to offer polyphonic MIDI-to-CV "from the future". Creative voice allocation and automatic tuning make this a very interesting and useful way to get polyphony into your rack.
Superbooth 2018: Bastl Instruments Timber – dual waveform lumberjack
03 May 2018 · Timber offers wave driving and wave folding circuits that can be mixed and blended together with each other or the original signal. It takes a simple waveform and produces multiple harmonics and fabulous ...
Bastl Kastle 1.5 upgrades the noise and sounds “way better”
18 Dec 2017 · Bastl's newly upgraded Kastle 1.5 gets a paint job, USB power, new synthesis modes and a greatly improved sound engine. It's still a lot of fun even with the annoyingly small knobs and patch wires.
Bastl’s 60Knobs controller for Sonic Potion’s LXR drum machine arrives
31 Aug 2017 · 60Knobs (or SixtyKnobs) is Bastl's long awaited controller and expansion programmer for Sonic Potion's 6 voice LXR drum machine. All 60 knobs come in a bag as part of the kit - get soldering!
Bastl softPop: playfully organic semi-modular noise creature
04 Jul 2017 · Don't let the dull exterior fool you, the softPop is one psychedelic semi-modular biological entity that moves, grooves and devours other boxes of noise with the wet fart of ecstatic synthesis.
Dude, it’s a 5 channel mono mixer and here’s why you want one
22 May 2017 · Dude is a little 5 channel, battery powered performance mixer that'll connect up all your little external noise boxes. It's a lot more useful than it sounds, check out the video.
Superbooth 2017: Bastl Thyme robot operated digital tape machine
21 Apr 2017 · Bastl digitise the tape delay and let you play in the space between "Thyme" based effects (see what they did there?)