Buchla USA has collaborated with module manufacturer Tiptop Audio to resurrect the famous Buchla 200 Series synthesizer in the universal Eurorack format. This latest incarnation of Don Buchla’s iconic West Coast style of synthesis, dubbed the 200t, will remain 100 per cent faithful to the original designs
Steady State Fate have teamed with a new joint venture from electronic artists Boys Noize and Baseck called BII to give us the Triptych, a completely ridiculous module of sonic destruction. Triptych combines distortion, an analog multimode filter, VCAs with characterful saturation and a comb
While exploring what the Korg SQ-64 can offer to synth heads who indulge in the Eurorack modular side of synthesis, I stumbled on an exciting use for the Korg’s unusual Arp function that’s perfect for use alongside faux-polyphonic modules like the 2hp Modular Pluck and
This week we’ve seen successors announced to two enormously popular Eurorack modules, the Mutable Instruments Clouds and Intellijel Metropolis, being reborn as Beads and Metropolix respectively. Both released in 2014, Clouds and Metropolis have both been key modules in the modular explosion we’ve seen in
Another interesting collaboration announcement for Eurorack synth company Noise Engineering. Having recently collaborated with Arturia on the MicroFreak, Noise Engineering have now partnered with Avid offering 3 new AAX plug-ins based on 3 of their popular Eurorack modules. Known for the unique, aggressive, and otherworldly
This is an exciting one, boutique Australian effect pedal manufacturer Poly Effects, have been gaining momentum with their wildly powerful multi-touch screen modular pedals Digit and Beebo over the last couple of years, and now they’ve just announced they’re entering the Eurorack market. Poly Effects
A small Danish Eurorack company named after a Japanese soup has come up with a nice looking granular module named after an American breakfast cereal that was invented to discourage patients at a sanitarium from masturbating. That’s probably one of the weirdest sentences I’ve ever
Befaco’s new CV to MIDI converter module, the CV Thing, is now available, providing a slimmed-down and simplified range of functions found in their big VCMC (voltage controlled MIDI controller) module. The CV to MIDI idea might seem funny at first, but it’s actually super
Aussie Eurorack module designers, Serpens Modular, have today announced their brand new Ara module is now shipping. The module is a multi-function utility that expands on the standard sequential switch idea, adding gates, 5 voltage sources and a clock divider. Serpens also do some of
This one’s bound to make a lot of Eurorack modular people happy, Empress have announced the ZOIA Euroburo — a Eurorack module version of their incredible ZOIA pedal. It features 4 CV ins and outs, a headphone jack, stereo ins and outs and MIDI jacks.
