Make Noise brings Tom Erbe’s soundhack spectral ideas to a dual oscillator: Spectraphon

The pandemic apparently brought together modular house Make Noise, instrument maker Jeff Snyder, and soundhack creator Tom Erbe. Spectral analysis/resynthesis, once just an esoteric software process, is now in a beautiful module. Get your hands on some new sounds.

Korg drumlogue has it all: analog, samples, digital synth, SDK

Korg’s drumlogue was long expected, but now that it’s here, it looks like one of the most capable boxes from KORG ever. And that ‘logue SDK means you can customize it to do even more.

Peter Kirn - September 16, 2022

Superbooth: SOMA Labs shows off microtonal TERRA synthesizer, packed with sensors

SOMA Labs has now revealed the outcome of some of the experiments they’ve been doing with pitch – the new TERRA synthesizer, which we’ll see at Superbooth Berlin next week.

Peter Kirn - May 5, 2022

Erica Synths – Sonic Potions LXR-02 drum machine review: deep dive

Peter Kirn - August 4, 2021

KORG drumlogue: it’s analog, it’s digital, it runs ‘logue plugins so you can customize it, too

Peter Kirn - January 20, 2021

Pd patching, IRL: 3dPdModular is a modular synth with Pd, RasPi inside

Peter Kirn - June 4, 2020

In Russia, vintage MeeBlips have custom clones, thanks to open source hardware

Peter Kirn - March 6, 2020

Here’s what Polyend’s Medusa can sound like

Peter Kirn - June 14, 2019

Beneath Polyend Medusa grid and knobs, a wealth of possibilities

Peter Kirn - June 13, 2019

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