Strange-R modules: navigate generative melodic contours

Stochastic Instruments has a preview of some tasty generative sequencer modules. Random walks meet music theory, and what you get is Melodic Contour Sequencing, navigated with knobs, voltage, and (on the larger module) a joystick.

Minimoog’s missing link: how an icon was born in summer of 1970

How did the Minimoog take shape – and set the course of synthesizer and musical instrument history? Among many revelations in JoE Silva’s The Minimoog Book for BJOOKS, we learn how the synth’s early prototypes evolved into the instrument we know today. Read the excerpt here.

Peter Kirn - December 20, 2024

One knob interface, DeBoom (showing bypass switch, and... yeah, one knob)

Freebies: Eventide’s one-knob fixers, DeBoom and Sheen Machine

Eventide is in on the holiday gift game, too, with a giveaway through New Year’s Eve of one-knob signal separation fixers for low-end thump and high-end air.

Peter Kirn - December 20, 2024

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