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.

Crank it up: A noble and elegant simulation of playing French Horn for Playdate

We truly live in a golden age of indie game development, for we have a breathtaking, achingly realistic simulation of French Horn controllable by crank on the pocket Playdate.

Peter Kirn - June 10, 2022

GEMA is a delay pedal effect-synth that rumbles like an earthquake, by Senyawa x Squaresolid

From Yogyakarta, Indonesia comes a glitchy, powerful delay effect unlike any other. It’s a stompbox with an earthquake setting. And it’s a special collaboration – between Yogya’s engineer of sound and mayhem Andreas Siagian aka squaresolid and instrument builder and musician Wukir Suryadi of the band Senyawa.

Peter Kirn - May 25, 2022

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

Peter Kirn - May 24, 2022

The Oberheim OB-X8 is a beast – here are more sounds from it, straight-up

Peter Kirn - May 19, 2022

MIDI Polyphonic Expression has been updated with one powerful feature: better documentation

Peter Kirn - May 17, 2022

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

Peter Kirn - May 16, 2022

Bastl’s delicious Pizza: waveshaping meets FM for a tasty modular oscillator

Peter Kirn - May 11, 2022

Hands-on tour of the Oberheim OB-X8 architecture, feature by feature, with Francis Preve

Francis Preve - May 10, 2022

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