Free Eurorack holiday – all these Instruo modules are now on VCV Rack; here’s a guide

Modular Santa Claus is here, just in the Nick of time. Boutique Scottish Eurorack maker Instruo is dropping a big range of modules in virtual form on VCV Rack – for free. Here’s what’s inside and where to get started.

Where to start in Eurorack? This video makes you a Buchla Music Easel-style rig, but in modules

Eurorack may be known for its addictiveness, but some synth lovers suffer just as much for tyranny of choice. This tutorial cures both that and Buchla Music Easel envy.

Peter Kirn - April 21, 2020

A Buchla synth repair turned into an LSD trip, and made the evening news

It seems the legends are true – there really was LSD added to vintage synths. A Bay Area, California Buchla 100 reportedly triggered an acid trip decades later. Allegedly, anyway.

Peter Kirn - May 23, 2019

The synth modules of winter: your Eurorack radar

Peter Kirn - February 5, 2019

Buchla’s pioneering Thunder touch controller is back, on Sensel Morph

Peter Kirn - January 23, 2019

Review: volca modular takes on creative synthesis in a small package

Francis Preve - January 15, 2019

KORG volca modular and volca drum are real – and now we’ve got details

Peter Kirn - January 15, 2019

Hands-on: Complex-1 puts West Coast-inspired modular in Reason

Peter Kirn - December 18, 2018

TUNNELS imagines Eurorack if you could multiply and patch anywhere

Peter Kirn - December 7, 2018

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