Review: Here’s Moog Mavis, packing analog Moog modular essentials into a 24-jack, $349 box

It looks like another budget semi-modular, but look closer: Moog’s latest is a distillation of a lot of what distinguishes a Moog modular voice, with some significant twists (wavefolder!). And it can work on its own or as an ideal companion to other patchable instruments. Let’s break it down.

Hot visual patch summer: cables.gl adds character camera control, new physics, remote viewing

The free browser-based patching environment for visuals cables.gl has one hot summer update. New ray casting and the power to walk around and walk into walls.

Peter Kirn - June 10, 2022

MOD Devices made a guitar synth you can actually play like a synth – so your guitar is the CV

It’s the sound and expression of a modular synth, but you can mix it with guitar sounds and play it with the guitar techniques you already know. Here’s the latest no-extra-cost addition to MOD Devices do-it-all mobile effects boxes.

Peter Kirn - May 24, 2022

The best way to integrate Ableton Live and Eurorack modular – for any rig

Peter Kirn - May 18, 2022

Dreadbox’s new 200€ Dysmetria kit is an insane amount of analog groove fun

Peter Kirn - May 16, 2022

Mutable Instruments Plaits is now free for Reason, in a beautiful reimagining called Macro

Peter Kirn - February 15, 2022

Softpop SP2 is next-level analog synthesis and processing from Bastl and Casper Electronics

Peter Kirn - January 5, 2022

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

Peter Kirn - December 6, 2021

Tour Berna3, a complete 1950s electronic music studio in software – tape loops to test oscillators

Peter Kirn - October 1, 2021

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