Patience, module from Olivia Artz, scales modulation from seconds to decades

Following the success of Time Machine, Olivia Artz has a new idea for playing with temporality in Eurorack modular. Patience is a “lowest” frequency oscillator, setting duration in seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years … or decades. It’s just launched on Kickstarter.

Bastl Instruments Kalimba, acoustic-digital hybrid, is already a megahit

The best of show at Superbooth 2026 is an easy pick. Bastl Kalimba, with its combination of acoustic and physical interaction with fluid digital synthesis and sensing, is a triumph of instrument design.

Peter Kirn - May 14, 2026

Pikimov, free Web visual tool, now has a classic editor for video editing

Pikimov, the community-supported free Web visual tool, keeps getting better. Pikimov 5 dropped today with a “classic” editor that makes it competitive with tools like CapCut — or any time you need a quick video edit. That joins After Effects-style motion tools, with surprising options like background removal and rotoscoping.

Peter Kirn - February 4, 2026

Cosmolab, open DSP development kit, in final hours of crowdfunding

Peter Kirn - January 29, 2026

Palestinian game Dreams on a Pillow is on its last day of crowdfunding

Peter Kirn - January 13, 2025

Sampleslicer MKIII is an all-new version of realtime Eurorack sampler-slicer

Peter Kirn - February 23, 2024

Techno meets graphic novel: Alan Oldham’s Johnny Gambit is back to the future

Peter Kirn - September 5, 2022

open·control is a Kickstarter-backed controller for Ableton Live triggering, looping, everything

Peter Kirn - November 2, 2021

Playtronica’s Orbita explores sequences on physical, kinetic turntable, launching soon

Peter Kirn - August 30, 2021