Boubou: a striking 5 voice analogue Eurorack drum synth

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Quanalog Instruments’ first entry into the Eurorack market is the remarkably named Boubou. It’s filter based, analogue and split into 5 voices to cover all the basics any drum synth would need. Boubou It’s a big chunky module, as wide as it is tall and covered with an initially bewildering array of knobs. The black […]

More distortion from Noise Engineering in the all-analogue Viol Ruina

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Noise Engineering release the all-analogue Viol Ruina distortion and lowpass filter module with internal envelope follower and self-modulating cut-off. Viol Ruina This is the third Ruina module in about 4 months. First, there was the Terci Ruina that has three separate distortion circuits, next there was the Kith Ruina that was built as a guitar […]

Cursus Iteritas Magnus and Ataraxic Iteritas Magnus 5U modules from Noise Engineering

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Noise Engineering had their first foray into large format 5U modular back in September. Now they have two more modules to bring to the chunky, high-end modular party in the shape of Cursus Iteritas Magnus and Ataraxic Iteritas Magnus. Cursus Iteritas Magnus This is based upon the Eurorack Cursus Iteritas oscillator that works from a […]

Superbooth 2019: AJHSynth launching 3 characterful Eurorack modules

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Classic Eurorack module maker AJHSynth has 3 new modules to release at Superbooth this year. We have the Mini Mod Precision Voltages, Entropic Doom Voltage Controlled Noisillator and the Lunar Module Apollo Mission Communicator.  Mini Mod Precision Voltages A voltage generating module with a super accurate calibrated output which is accurate to <1mV over 20V […]

Superbooth 2019: 8 Slim Line Eurorack modules from Doepfer

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Doepfer is always coming up with something useful. This time around it’s a bunch of “Slim Line” modules with which you could pretty much build a whole system under 30hp. Slim Line Series The first module in the series is actually an entire synth voice in 10hp. The A-111-6 has a triangle core VCO with […]

Autumn Soundboxes – handmade electro-acoustic boxes of noise

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Berlin-based multimedia artist “10cars” has produced a series of adorably industrial noise machines. Autumn Soundboxes There are three boxes covered in tactile and inviting noise making devices. Some have strings or bands, some have thumb piano style twangers, some have springs and scrapers. All of them look brilliantly rough and ready like they were found […]

Gotharman Tiny LD granular multi-timbral workstation in a little box

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Gotharman has taken the Little DeFormer 3 and squeezed it down into the bare essentials to bring us the Tiny LD with the same firmware for the space conscious. Tiny LD As with all Gotharman products you get a lot of functionality packed into these machines. The Tiny LD is a granular music workstation with […]

AIR teams up with Akai Pro and Alesis to give us Drum Synth 500 synthesized drums

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AIR Music Technology has teamed up with Akai Professional and Alesis to produce a meaty software drum synthesizer. Drum Synth 500 has 500 drum sounds, 500 drum samples, 500 MIDI drum loops and 50 kits. Let’s check it out. Drum Synth 500 You get 8 channels of drums in a fully programmable 500 series modular […]

Broken Tape: a simulation of unexpected tape breakage

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Error Instruments continues to boggle our minds and fill the world with exciting boxes of noise. Their latest box is called Broken Tape and is a “broken tape simulation because sometimes we miss the sound of the unexpected errors.” Broken Tape This is not a little bit of warp, saturation or flutter this is something […]

Digital Brain Instruments Oscar: a creative oscillator and noise generator plug-in

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Digital Brain Instruments released an useful signal generator plug-in which goes by the name of Oscar. As the name implies, Oscar largely deals with oscillators – though not the kind you may be used to from synthesizers. Rather, they serve as tone and noise generators for testing and analysis purposes. That’s what the manufacturer says, […]