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As much triggering as you can handle: Noise Engineering Multi Repetitor
Tough times and tight spaces call for deep algorithmic generative triggers. So now is a great time for Noise Engineering to reimagine their trigger module. Tap a tempo, patch a cord, and instantly spin up percussive patterns you can freely modulate — the best of what the company gave us before, but now with live performance transformations and more possibilities. It’s Multi Repetitor. It’s Multi Repetitor. Sorry.
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Watch as a telephone is transformed into a DIY analog drum machine
Push-button telephone. Analog drum machine. Arduino Nano. DIY amplifier. Shashwath Sundar, aka simple_but_nerdy, makes the telephone-drum machine fusion seem like it was meant to be.
Peter Kirn - January 9, 2026
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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.
Peter Kirn - November 3, 2025
Gear Music tech Tech
A new Bucket Brigade Delay chip just dropped, the first in decades
Peter Kirn - October 10, 2025
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What to know about the Roland TR-1000, from voices to slicing to samples
Peter Kirn - October 1, 2025
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The making of Sequential’s all-analog, polyphonic, expressive Fourm
Peter Kirn - September 23, 2025
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Aircraft Designs is putting a full analog mastering suite into Eurorack
Peter Kirn - June 6, 2025
Gear Modular-Analog Music tech Tech
The all-new Moog Messenger: a tour with synth legend Erik Norlander of Moog
Peter Kirn - June 4, 2025
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Artemis combines Dreadbox analog, Sinevibes FX – and the result is lush
Peter Kirn - May 19, 2025
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