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Legendary synth maker, Moog, wants you to explore evolving sequences. Its new semi-modular analogue synthesiser is inspired by the ideas in music technology that surfaced in the 1930s and 1940s. The Moog Subharmonicon “spirals through 6-tone subharmonic chords and organic polyrhythms”, the brand says, conceiving experimental, complex sequences and sounds. The Subharmonicon proudly boasts two […]
Members of the modular synth community headed to the YouTube lobby of Make Noise’s latest video premiere today, as the brand hinted something exciting was on the horizon. Right on cue at 5pm, we managed to catch a glimpse at the Make Noise 0-CTRL, neatly hooked up to its older sibling, the 0-Coast. The new […]
Superbooth 2020: 1010music has announced a ‘Micro’ version of its Bitbox Eurorack sampler module, which now sports a modest 18HP width in lieu of the original’s 26HP. It still features a colour touchscreen, albeit 2-inches instead of 3.5 inches. Like the original, the Bitbox Micro boasts more than a handful of features to approach sampling, […]
Superbooth 2020: Expert Sleepers has announced the Disting EX, a multi-functional Eurorack module with oscillators, filters, effects and a WAV recorder. Disting EX sports delays, reverbs, CV input quantisers and a pattern generator, making it a modular workhorse. It also has a powerful 8-voice sample player and it comes with a 32GB MicroSD card that’s […]
Superbooth 2020: ALM/Busycircuits has announced the System Coupe, a complete modular system that brings together ten of its in-house modules – “some new, some staples, some proven classics”, as the company says. The Coupe is loaded for deep synthesis, featuring capabilities in sound generation, modulation, sampling, signal processing, pattern generation and sequencing. At the heart […]
Superbooth 2020: Belgian modular synth manufacturer, Shakmat, announce two new Eurorack modules, Bard Quartet and Dual Dagger. Bard Quartet Bard Quartet is a quantiser module, with four programmable channels. Shakmat prides itself on its design choices here, touting the module as “easily adjustable”, pointing toward the intuitive keyboard along the side panel and an overall […]
Behringer’s 961 interface is a multi-channel trigger converter that faithfully recreates the circuitry found in Moog’s System 55 and System 15 modular systems of the ‘70s. See Behringer’s demo below: Housed in the top section of the 961 interface is an audio-to-V-trig converter with a sensitivity knob for adjusting its threshold. This lets you convert […]
Erica Synths has expanded their vacuum-tubed equipped Fusion Series with two new Eurorack modules: The VCF3 and Modulator. Fusion VCF3 The Fusion VCF3 is an analogue, 24db/octave low-pass filter that employs a vacuum-tube and vactrol circuit to offer distinct, soft filtering. To provide greater versatility, it’s equipped with an independent audio mixer, and buffered multiple […]
Erica Synths has introduced the newest member of its Pico Series, the Pico Drive. As suggested by its name, this is a drive module that takes up just 3HP of rack space while offering powerful distortion capabilities. The Pico Drive is a combined wavefolder overdrive, meaning that amplitude peaks beyond a threshold get ‘folded’ unto […]
Nearing the goal of its Indiegogo campaign, Noodlebox is designed to be an enjoyable and easy-to-use sequencer that has intricate and mind-boggling results. The four-part sequencer sports a graphic LED matrix that is tweakable, “just like using an Etch-a-Sketch”, says Jason Hotchkiss, the man behind the machine. Noodlebox is “perfectly paired with Eurorack and desktop […]