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VCV Rack 2.6: multilingual, drag multiple cables, fit in view – all for free
Both VCV Rack Free and VCV Rack Pro 2.6 are out, including the ability to Zoom to fit / Zoom to fit modules and drag multiple cables stacked on a port. It’s a nice upgrade for this free and open source modular tool (and its partly-proprietary Pro package, too) – while we wait on upcoming v3.
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Xaoc’s Samarkanda is a massive, patchable delay and audio mangler
It’s a quad digital delay with a bunch of patch points in its sprawling 42HP. But Xaoc Devices’ new Samarkanda and its audio buffer can transform into a lot more, from granulators to loopers to resonators – basically, anything you can build out of its four independent delays. It might be the most powerful re-patchable effect we’ve ever seen.
Peter Kirn - March 25, 2025
Gear Modular-Analog Music tech Tech
SchneidersKeller brings Berlin synth landmark to London
The new Berlin is… London? Today is the opening of SchneidersKeller, the new Denmark Street outpost of the legendary SchneidersLaden, appropriately situated in the basement of Rough Trade. (It broke my hipster dosimeter!) And you’ll like the shopkeepers: the store is opened by our friends Edd Butterworth (London Modular, Sonic State) and Jean-Marcel Fricke (son of Manfred, MFB Berlin).
Peter Kirn - March 21, 2025
Modular-Analog Music tech Tech
Befaco’s new, updated modules in hardware and free for VCV Rack
Peter Kirn - March 10, 2025
Gear Modular-Analog Music tech Software Tech
TROVARSI x ALX-106 deliver brutal techno fed by serious live chops
Peter Kirn - February 14, 2025
Gear Modular-Analog Music Music tech Tech
1982’s PPG Wave 2 arrives in reimagined Eurorack form
Peter Kirn - February 11, 2025
Gear Modular-Analog Music tech Tech
Bitwig enters crowded audio interface space with controller, CV twists
Peter Kirn - January 24, 2025
Gear Modular-Analog Music tech Tech
Maker Monday: Autodafe put VCV Rack in a Eurorack module, via RasPi
Peter Kirn - January 6, 2025
DIY + Unusual Modular-Analog Music tech Software Tech
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