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.

Error Instruments’ Loopman is an experimental cassette Walkman instrument

Also from the mad genius of Error Instruments – Loopman is a Walkman-style tape record player-looper, modded for speed manipulation, recording, and CV input.

Peter Kirn - August 24, 2021

Motor Synth is brutal, electro-mechanical synth – last days of discount

Gamechanger Audio’s Motor Synth is a devastating industrial machine – with actual motors driving the sounds, all built in Latvia. Here’s everything you need to know about it, as this week is the end of its steep crowd funding discount.

Peter Kirn - June 24, 2019

An injury left Olafur Arnalds unable to play, so he turned to machines

Peter Kirn - June 10, 2019

A DIY machine imagines 808 kicks if they were made of actual fire

Peter Kirn - January 24, 2019

Mammoth Beat Organ is a giant crazy mechanical music machine

Peter Kirn - October 1, 2018

A marvelous sound machine inspired by a Soviet deep drilling project

Peter Kirn - September 25, 2018

Watch futuristic techno made by robots – then learn how it was made

Peter Kirn - September 12, 2018

These piano breakthroughs changed music forever

Peter Kirn - March 29, 2016

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