Georgian-made Ambient audio is bringing home-grown modular to the Caucasus

Buy local: the world of gear for musicians is opening up to independent makers in more places. That includes Tbilisi-based Ambient audio, who are making everything from glowing and recycled patch cables to modular kits.

New Noise Engineering: Jam Jam trigger, polyphony-friendly envelopes, more swappability

Noise Engineering has added new Eurorack hardware: Jam Jam 6HP trigger-and-gate with clock phasing and delay, and Quantus Trajecta 10HP quad envelope modules. Plus if you’re using the swappable-function Versio and Legio modules, you can now buy ready-made overlays.

Peter Kirn - January 25, 2023

SOMA’s PULSAR-23 gets an epic free community patch book

How do you know analog and patch cords are really back? It’s the return of the patch book. The beloved SOMA PULSAR•23 just got an 80-odd-page tome full of patches for this unique “organismic” instrument, from community members and friends of SOMA.

Peter Kirn - January 9, 2023

Deep dive on UNO Synth Pro: Complete guide to sound design and performance

Peter Kirn - December 29, 2022

Deep dive on UNO Synth Pro: IK Multimedia’s compact dual-filter analog synths

Peter Kirn - December 28, 2022

The latest 1U tool is a DJ-style innofader crossfader from intellijel

Peter Kirn - November 29, 2022

Bastl adds extra toppings to Pizza wave-shaping, FM oscillator

Peter Kirn - November 18, 2022

Sequential Trigon-6: hands-on sounds and impressions of the new polysynth

Francis Preve - November 17, 2022

Moog Minimoog Model D is back [Gallery]

Peter Kirn - November 17, 2022

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