Vermona DRM, the company’s DDR-era analog drum machine, as seen on Hainbach

In must-watch “TV” this week, it’s the 1987 Vermona DRM, a Roland-style East German analog drum machine. It’s from when DRM didn’t mean DRM.

Georgian-made Ambient audio is bringing home-grown modular to the Caucasus

Buy local: the world of gear for musicians is opening up to independent makers in more places. That includes Tbilisi-based Ambient audio, who are making everything from glowing and recycled patch cables to modular kits.

Peter Kirn - March 22, 2023

New Noise Engineering: Jam Jam trigger, polyphony-friendly envelopes, more swappability

Noise Engineering has added new Eurorack hardware: Jam Jam 6HP trigger-and-gate with clock phasing and delay, and Quantus Trajecta 10HP quad envelope modules. Plus if you’re using the swappable-function Versio and Legio modules, you can now buy ready-made overlays.

Peter Kirn - January 25, 2023

SOMA’s PULSAR-23 gets an epic free community patch book

Peter Kirn - January 9, 2023

Deep dive on UNO Synth Pro: Complete guide to sound design and performance

Peter Kirn - December 29, 2022

Deep dive on UNO Synth Pro: IK Multimedia’s compact dual-filter analog synths

Peter Kirn - December 28, 2022

The latest 1U tool is a DJ-style innofader crossfader from intellijel

Peter Kirn - November 29, 2022

Sequential Trigon-6: hands-on sounds and impressions of the new polysynth

Francis Preve - November 17, 2022

Offsets and stereo mixing are the latest Noise Engineering modular wonders

Peter Kirn - October 28, 2022

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