This is a bound book you can build into a complete modular system

Like something out of a (nerdy) magician’s library, Build Your Own Modular is a physical, ring-bound book that transforms into a complete Eurorack modular system. It’s both a printed instructional document and the thing you’re building — all in one.

The yellow plastic case of a Roland P-6 pocket drum machine opened up, revealing the factory PCB board and mods with speaker and amplifier circuit.

Hack a Roland P-6 pocket sampler with its own amp and speaker

It’s a drum machine. It’s a sampler. It’s got a rechargeable battery. It’s got… some space inside the case. So hacker DIYDSP (Noah Vawter) added his own amp and speaker, modding the handheld with the self-contained speaker Roland left out.

Music Thing Modular Workshop System gets its own advent calendar

Out: tiny milk chocolates. In: delicious Program Card code creations for the Music Thing Computer in the Workshop System. It’s a beautiful story of what happens when a small, focused community goes all in on an idea.

Rhizomatic Synestia, an otherworldly effect from Absynth, Plasmonic creator

Modeled resonators, formants, waveshapers, filters, delays, all with extensive modulation: Synestia takes the unparalleled sonic shapers from creator Brian Clevinger’s Plasmonic and brings it to any input signal.

Warp plug-in image on a gray grid background with yellow paint splashes. Showing three knobs: Speed, Stretch, and Mix.

Free Baby Audio Warp: Varispeed, pitch effect from Transit 2

Baby Audio has a giveaway of an effect from their collaboration with Andrew Huang, Transit 2. Warp is just that module – Speed, and time-independent pitch (Stretch) – for free.

Idyllic forest scene with a large tree in the background dappled in light, as rendered in Unreal Engine using Quixel assets.

Fab.com is the new home for Epic 3D content – now go claim free stuff

Textures and scenes, trees and architecture – Epic consolidated all their stores for Unreal, Fortnite, and 3D creators (even rival Unity) on what they call Fab back in late October. The dust has settled, and you should go claim some free content if you haven’t already – including a ton of spectacular Megascans for Unreal […]

Inside the Dune 2 score with Osmose and Hans Zimmer

A sequel is only worth its weight in spice if it can best the original. For Dune 2, Hans Zimmer and his team went further with their electronic instrumentation to immerse us even deeper in otherworldly sounds. Now we get some insights into how they did it, and why the Expressive E Osmose was a starring player.

Solderbox, a semi-modular dream app from Jakob Haq and Bram Bos

Take equal parts mostly-DIY Eurorack creations, generative and chance-based tools and signal-moshing goodies, the app craft of beloved developer Bram Bos, and the vision of Swedish YouTuber original Jakob Haq. Now you’ve got the jacked-up patch hack Jakub haQ attaQ app pack jackpot Bram Bos boss drop of Solderbox on lock!

Tolkachev has found something ... in the forest! The box opens, and inside is a new Radiant module from Dnipro Modular x Sinevibes!

Dnipro x Sinevibes: Radiant stereo morphing processing module

It’s a six-module multi-effects module with morphing. It’s got a 3-band filter/isolator. It’s a reverb. It’ll reverse. In a world cluttered with clones and sameness, the all-Ukrainian collaboration of Dnipro Modular and Sinevibes again shows that new module worlds are possible.

Alternative histories, realized: someone built a working 80s Apple prototype

Kevin Noki has realized a ground-breaking, long-lost prototype created by industrial designer Hartmut Esslinger for Apple in the 80s. FlatMac lives – and it works.