Total destruction: watch and hear this violent Erica PĒRKONS drum demo

We’ve gotten our hands and ears on Erica Synths’ new drum machine. And it’s every bit as brutal and dirty as expected. Our friends at Motobor Instruments do it properly.

Erica Synths’ PĒRKONS, a deep 4-voice drum+synth box, ‘thunder’ in Latvian

Erica is offering up a 4-voice synth and percussion architecture with a detailed sequencer in a single box. So yeah, this week is about a lot of new modules – but PĒRKONS shows again how those ideas can be integrated into a single desktop design, too.

Peter Kirn - September 15, 2021

Moog now has a line of playing cards for making patches, plus a music EP

The answer to the question “what if Oblique Strategies, a synthesizer patch sheet, and Magic: The Gathering had a love child?” — revealed.

Peter Kirn - September 14, 2021

Plug your line inputs into Eurorack, mix, add FX – Bastl’s BUDDY is here

Peter Kirn - September 9, 2021

Error Instruments’ Loopman is an experimental cassette Walkman instrument

Peter Kirn - August 24, 2021

Lucifer is a dark FM oscillator for drones and drums and evil – Error Instruments does Superbooth

Peter Kirn - August 24, 2021

Sequential’s Take 5 poly, revealed: a compact $1299 synth with the Prophet 5 filter

Peter Kirn - August 23, 2021

The Insolventunclesam is a synth about printing money, by Gijs Gieskes

Peter Kirn - July 27, 2021

Erica’s Matrix Mixer means analog performance without re-patching cables

Peter Kirn - July 22, 2021

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