The synth modules of winter: your Eurorack radar

The waves of synth modules never stop coming, as obsessed engineers keep making them and sound tinkerers keep buying them. So let’s catch up with what’s out there, in the wake of the NAMM show in California late last month.

Bastl’s Dark Matter module unleashes the joys of feedback

What would a module behave like if it were built entirely around feedback – say, like one of those “zero-input” all-feedback mixer performances? Bastl Instruments teams up again with Peter Edwards to answer that question. The result: Dark Matter.

Peter Kirn - January 4, 2019

Escape vanilla modulation: Nikol shows you waveshaping powers

You wouldn’t make music with just simple oscillators, so why only use basic, repetitive modulation? In the latest video in Bastl’s how-to series hosted by Patchení’s Nikol, waveshaping gets applied to control signals.

Peter Kirn - November 20, 2018

Bastl TV: Patching and looping and Nikol teaches complex envelopes

Peter Kirn - August 30, 2018

Nikol returns to teach beginners modular – next, panning and ducking

Peter Kirn - August 2, 2018

Bastl do waveshaping, MIDI, and magically tune your modules

Peter Kirn - May 3, 2018

Open music gear: Bastl Instruments schematics on GitHub

Peter Kirn - April 3, 2018

If Modular Synthesis is something you’re interested in, here are 3 ways to get started cheaply

Ashley Elsdon - March 21, 2018

Bastl’s tiny, patchable Kastle now more durable, sounds better

Peter Kirn - December 14, 2017

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