XEN FX LAB: sequel to Zen Delay adds tweakable spring tank, dub mode

XEN FX LAB is a follow-up to a software hit (and hardware, before that), adding a modeled spring reverb, strike for “knocking” the virtual tank, and a dub button for adding dub-style throws, plus significant performance optimizations all round. And yeah, it’s time for more wild drones and dubs and echoes and the lot. macOS, Windows; VST3, AU, standalone; also on iOS.

New videos, manuals for Liquid Sky V4-CO + GLITHc: 8-bit glitchy witchcraft

Liquid Sky’s V4-CO and GLITHc combine into a wavetable sound design laboratory for Eurorack. The V4-CO is already multiple modules in one – and then you can hack and glitch it at a bit-by-bit level with all the goodies on the GLITHc. It’s so unique that people may not grok it right away. So let’s grok.

Peter Kirn - July 25, 2024

Liquid Sky d-vices V4CO & GLITHc: deep, glitchy, bendable wavetables

V4CO is more devilish proof that in Eurorack, anything is possible – even the improbable, unruly, and joyfully unwise. More than just an oscillator, it’s a demented, destructive voice combining 8-bit wavetables, sub-bass, overdrive, and VCAs, adding patchable circuit-bending mayhem with the GLITHc expander.

Peter Kirn - March 25, 2024

8-bit oscillators with analog overdrive and a glitch lab to bend them: Liquid Sky launches d-vices

Peter Kirn - May 12, 2023

Ninja Tune x Erica Synths Zen Delay is now a plug-in – with deep new modulation and more

Peter Kirn - February 9, 2023

Liquid Sky UFO modules: wild sounds, enough space for your fingers, plant a tree

Peter Kirn - August 1, 2022

Fresh picks to download from Bandcamp – essentials of experimentalism and groove

Peter Kirn - February 5, 2021

Erica’s modular Dada Noise System II dives into joys of joysticks, history of Dada

Peter Kirn - February 4, 2021

Gorgeous electro-acoustic instruments mix sculpture and noise

Peter Kirn - May 21, 2019