Afrorack with a DIY MIDI-CV converter on the Nile, robotic shakers and kick drum

Our friend Brian aka Afrorack has kept up his must-see series of DIY video tutorials in his home Uganda. And as ever, he’s producing brilliant instruments and fantastic music on a budget, thanks to some serious ingenuity.

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

Dispatch is a global matrix, a modulation grid for Ableton Live

Sometimes, people build things in Max for Live more audacious than any host has on its own. Dispatch is a global modulation matrix. It attenuates, it inverts, it mixes, it submixes. It talks to modular gear. It blows Live wide open.

Peter Kirn - June 10, 2021

This video makes it easy to mod KORG’s ultra-cheap monotron for analog CV

Peter Kirn - September 25, 2019

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