Georgian-made Ambient audio is bringing home-grown modular to the Caucasus

Buy local: the world of gear for musicians is opening up to independent makers in more places. That includes Tbilisi-based Ambient audio, who are making everything from glowing and recycled patch cables to modular kits.

Dozens of recipes on Mutable Instruments Plaits, for your Eurorack kitchen

Artist Rochefsky has been busy cooking up a ton of Mutable Instruments Plaits recipes – which seems just the thing to share on a Sunday. Plus even if you don’t have the module (or like me are on a train at the moment) you can give this a go for free in VCV Rack in software (with the Macro Oscillator 2 module).

Peter Kirn - March 19, 2023

Moog updates Matriarch with performance tweaks, releases patching book and videos

Matriarch, Moog’s eminently patchable semi-modular paraphonic instrument, just got a slew of updates for playability. And there are new patch ideas, both in book and video form.

Peter Kirn - March 15, 2023

Here’s what happens when you let ChatGPT make Eurorack patches for you

Peter Kirn - March 6, 2023

A cheat sheet for all the wild things Noise Engineering’s Mimetic Digitalis sequencer does

Peter Kirn - February 22, 2023

PicoADK is a complete DIY board to build your own sound inventions – coded in Vult DSP

Peter Kirn - February 21, 2023

Neutral Labs Pip module: morphable, complex LFOs designed to be paired

Peter Kirn - February 20, 2023

Endorphin.es Ghost review: a landmark reverb, distortion, dynamic, multi-FX module

Peter Kirn - February 17, 2023

Bastl – Casper Aikido module is a mixer and a quad VCA and a compressor envelope follower

Peter Kirn - February 8, 2023

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