Feed yourself with a free cookbook from Korg and the electronic music and synth community

Here’s a different sort of compilation and synth collaboration – KORG Germany in Berlin invited the likes of Joan La Barbara, Suzanne Ciani, Alva Noto, Dave Smith, and a lot of us relative newcomers, too, to make a cookbook. And it’s free to download.

Totally tube-ular: weird and wonderful sounds of Erica’s new Fusion modular system

The synth world may be quieter this April, but that isn’t stopping the saturated, screaming sounds of tubes. Erica Synths have both a new system and new modules, true to their post-Communist, tube-loving legacy. I’m going to say some words, but let’s marvel for a moment at the grungy, powerful industrial instrumentalism here first: Tubes […]

Peter Kirn - April 23, 2020

The biggest music gear news and best videos to watch from NAMM

The US musical instrument show NAMM dropped the usual amount of gear news on us – now here’s the highlights reel.

Peter Kirn - January 27, 2020

Extreme dub delay, in the new Ninja Tune-Erica Zen Delay

Peter Kirn - September 18, 2019

Erica’s Pico System III is a tiny, 450 EUR West Coast modular rig

Peter Kirn - September 16, 2019

Hands on Erica Synths Techno System, dream industrial modular

Peter Kirn - June 18, 2019

The synth modules of winter: your Eurorack radar

Peter Kirn - February 5, 2019

Erica Synths made a modular techno system called Techno System

Peter Kirn - May 4, 2018

Ninja Tune are doing their own multi-delay, and it looks wild

Peter Kirn - April 10, 2018

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