Midweek Modular is an all-new segment helping you absorb the latest modular news more efficiently! Here are my modular highlights of the week...
Allieway Audio has released its first collection of VCV Rack modules that colourfully explore unorthodox takes on digital and analogue modular synthesis.
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Teenage Engineering has quietly released the modules from the POM-400 and POM-170 individually for surprisingly low prices. They don't come with front panels so you'll have to come up with your own way of ...
The GC Audio Inherit system is a 2U chassis with power, metering, and controls that lets you insert preamp 'cartridges' for different tones.
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All of Instruo's modules get updated for VCV Rack 2 and add the latest new modules for good measure and great patching.
Wavefonix is introducing a complete modular synthesizer aimed at the beginner. The W314 offers 11 modules in a 104HP skiff ready for your journey into bleeps and bloops.
How do you top an uber pack of 500 Reaktor Blocks modules? Why with 700 modules of course! Nano Pack 2 covers every function you can think of and more.Â
Mosaic 1U tiles are colourfully designed with white or black front panels and 18 modules to choose from featuring far more than the usual utilities.
Andrew Belt of VCV Rack has posted an update on the development of version 2 which includes interesting details on the future of this popular modular platform.
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Emerging out of the darkness is the third version of the Erica Synths Black performance rig. Pulling in modules old and new to form a superb box of sounds and exploration.
The Toybox Nano Pack comes with a ridiculous amount of modules for Reaktor Blocks with every conceivable function converted in high-quality, low-CPU simplicity.
We present: the best Crazy Eurorack Modules 2020! Get ready for some bonkers adventures into noise, glitch and sonic weirdness for your modular rig...
The first four Behringer modules based on the ARP 2500 modular synthesizer are now available for preorder for unbelievable pricing considering this is Eurorack and these are 2500 modules.
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Just, wow. Poly Effects' Beebo pedal puts a host of modular FX and synths from popular Eurorack modules neatly onto your pedalboard, with loads of tweakable settings and a 5" touchscreen. Oh yes.
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3dPdModular combines a software backend with a hardware modular front end to offer a cost-effective and highly versatile modular synthesizer.
Cherry Audio has announced that their entry-level version of Voltage Modular is now free to download. It comes with 22 modules that you can patch together in a virtual Eurorack. Normally it costs €29.
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Build your own classic stage piano with just the sound modules you need in the Viscount Legend '70s digital modular stage piano.
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In the video for their new Eurorack Go modular case Behringer also gave a glimpse of some very interesting, unannounced Eurorack modules that are extremely Moogy.
Cherry Audio's Voltage Modular virtual Eurorack environment has picked up a bunch of new modules from developers Vult, Ben Davis and M*4.
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The Chromatic range from Dreadbox are colourful, fun, useful and are all under €100. Including a VCO, filters, noise, modulation, delay, mixing and modulating (now with video!)
Doepfer's cool range of slimline Eurorack modules was first seen at Superbooth and the first seven are now available. They are mostly 4HP, great value and could be the beginnings of your first rack.
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Spectrum is a collection of AU plug-ins for iOS, based upon the open source designs of Mutable Instruments Eurorack modules. Why hadn't anyone thought of that before?
They've done it! VCV Rack has reached version 1.0. With polyphonic cabling, MIDI mapping, multicore engine support and dozens of enhancements it's ready for the real world and it's awesome.
Audiophile Circuits League (ACL) has put together another complete system to take all the bother out of choosing individual modules. They are calling it System 2.