19 Oct · DSP Synthesizers have released two USB interfaces that take MIDI from any DAW, tablet, phone and output CV and gate for controlling your modular. USB-MIDI2CV and USB-MIDI2CVplus are available now.
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17 Oct · Turn your iPad into a lunchbox of modular synthesis with S-Modular by DesignByPaul. Some wiring behind the scenes but otherwise a cool way to start fiddling with Eurorack patching.
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16 Oct · Eventide are ignoring the Summer NAMM release of their EuroDDL delay module and are trying again with AES New York, although you probably won't get one until January. Looks like fun though.
16 Oct · Monobloc 01 and 02 are DIY modular kits that put 5 or 6 modules behind a single combined front panel. It's a fabulously cheap way to get into Eurorack, but you'll need to find your own components and case.
15 Oct · Full Bucket Music resurrects an old polyphonic monster of a 1977 Korg synthesizer. The FB-3300 emulates the sound and behaviour to generate acres of vintage synthesizer polyphony for free.
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13 Oct · Combine, offset, invert, blend and attenuate a bunch of CV or audio signals in The Bends, a voltage manipulator module from Warm Star which gives easy control over complex voltage combinations.
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12 Oct · The Field Kit FX is a box full of wonders for the experimentally minded electronic musician. Containing seven CV controllable effects like looping, delay, bit crushing, and a real spring reverb tank.
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11 Oct · Squarp Instruments are teasing a new module that could well be the Eurorack equivalent of their Pyramid hardware sequencer. Hermod appears to have 8 channels of CV/Gate sequencing more details to come.
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10 Oct · Joranalogue have released three new modules. The Mix 3 mixer, the Switch 4 performance signal switcher and router, and the Test 3 simple and obvious module tester.
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10 Oct · From new modular makes Livestock Electronics we get a Bang wavetable oscillator, MIR quad VCA, mixer, logic and distortion, and the Felix buffered mult. And this is just the beginning.
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09 Oct · Fancy building yourself an evil little bass synthesizer? Dreadbox have re-released the Hades as a complete DIY kit in a cardboard case for a very attractive price. Go get your soldering iron.
09 Oct · Sheffield hosted the second UK SynthFest on the 7th October presented by Sound On Sound magazine. I walked the floor, played with all manner of synths and noise machines and met the people who made them.
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09 Oct · The culmination of 10 years of cultivating vibrational interfaces the Resonant Garden pollinates manipulated strings through Alter DSP effects engines to seed beats, glitches and ethereal soundscapes.
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06 Oct · First seen at Superbooth the Black Dual VCF with fabulous 16 band spectral analyser LED strip is now available from Erica Synths. Dark, growly filtering x 2.
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05 Oct · Vixen is an 8 channel mixer designed for mixing and powering up to 8 Korg Volcas. A great idea, great features at a keen $219 preorder price point in a weird coloured case.
04 Oct · The Mutable Instruments carnage continues with the announcement that Clouds, the granular texture synthesizer module found in everyone's Eurorack is discontinued.
