Moon from Landscape, Mystic Circuits: a bonkers 4-channel drum machine

In case you missed Noon, the first collaboration was a brain-bending, organic, and exquisitely unpredictable analog drum machine. Its 4-channel sibling Moon has opened to preorders, and in this new compact descendant, it’s even more apparent that this is like a breathing, squawking lifeform of a device.

A new Bucket Brigade Delay chip just dropped, the first in decades

Wake up! A new BBD just dropped. It’s an analog delay circuit, but a new-generation design — the first such genuinely new chip design in decades. And that means you could argue the biggest announcement of this year in music technology is the smallest. Meet the SSI2100 from Sound Semiconductor, coming soon to music gear new you.

Peter Kirn - October 10, 2025

What to know about the Roland TR-1000, from voices to slicing to samples

Roland’s new flagship drum machine leaked everywhere. But we’ve got details on what’s new under the hood, including specifics on analog voices, expanded ACB modeling and other digital features, and new sampling powers, direct from the source. You wanted a new monster from Japan? You got it.

Peter Kirn - October 1, 2025

The making of Sequential’s all-analog, polyphonic, expressive Fourm

Peter Kirn - September 23, 2025

Aircraft Designs is putting a full analog mastering suite into Eurorack

Peter Kirn - June 6, 2025

The all-new Moog Messenger: a tour with synth legend Erik Norlander of Moog

Peter Kirn - June 4, 2025

Artemis illustration, a ghostly white face with white flowing hair against a black starscape, as pictured by creative director Afroditi Bitzouni.

Artemis combines Dreadbox analog, Sinevibes FX – and the result is lush

Peter Kirn - May 19, 2025

Nitecaller has made a gorgeous analog reimagining of ARP 2600, Odyssey

Peter Kirn - March 11, 2025

Befaco’s new, updated modules in hardware and free for VCV Rack

Peter Kirn - March 10, 2025

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