Feed yourself with a free cookbook from Korg and the electronic music and synth community

Here’s a different sort of compilation and synth collaboration – KORG Germany in Berlin invited the likes of Joan La Barbara, Suzanne Ciani, Alva Noto, Dave Smith, and a lot of us relative newcomers, too, to make a cookbook. And it’s free to download.

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.

Peter Kirn - February 5, 2019

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

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

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