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

My favorite thing from Superbooth, the one thing I’d pull out a wallet right away and get? It’s none other than Dreadbox’s utterly brutal-sounding, wildly fun analog semi-modular groove synth for Eurorack or desktop.

Superbooth Berlin preview: why the May edition will be an essential music culture event

Superbooth is back in the woods of Köpenick for the second time in under a year – an unmatched meeting point for synths, instruments, and music. Whether you join on CDM or (ideally) come in person in Berlin, here’s what to look forward to in May.

Peter Kirn - May 3, 2022

Teenage Engineering made a robotic LFO out of LEGO – and now offers barebones modules

Ever taught a synthesis course? At some point, you invariably try to explain an LFO as being like a machine turning the knob instead of your hand. Welp – Teenage Engineering just made that illustration literal. They also now have a line of barebones modules for €29 each a la carte, adaptable to Eurorack with some extra gear.

Peter Kirn - February 11, 2022

DIY Eurorack series kicks off with Erica Synths and Moritz Klein mki x es.EDU

Peter Kirn - January 3, 2022

Welcome to Hell: the marvelous, mad musical instruments of Ewa Justka

Peter Kirn - February 7, 2020

KORG’s nutekt NTS-1 is a fun, little kit – and open to ‘logue developers

Peter Kirn - May 16, 2019

SPICE is a one-stop modular distortion box – and it needs support

Peter Kirn - March 25, 2019

Brunswick is a grimy patchable synth kit with BEEF, for under £99

Peter Kirn - October 24, 2018

Watch this $30 kit turn into all these other synthesizers

Peter Kirn - August 27, 2018

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