Make Noise and Tom Erbe have made a mighty morphing spatial Plexiphon

Soundhack creations endure years and decades, and now we get a new one. Think mighty morphing modeless modulation. Plexiphon is neither reverb or echo. It’s both, simultaneously, for spatial textural sounds you can shift fluidly. And in my quest to avoid being consumed by a sea of modules, this one just rose way up the list.

From Éliane Radigue to West Coast, Homework is a patchable wonder

It’s a modular week, yes, but here are things you can never have too much of: great food, open beaches, modular environments, and Giorgio Sancristoforo sound playgrounds. So here’s Homework, a 4-track cassette recorder, retro effects including granular processor and tape echo, and modular synths inspired by Buchla and ARP. It’s all you need to recreate some Éliane Radigue-inspired drones and float away on a sea of noise.

Peter Kirn - May 4, 2026

Tim Exile built an experimental modular system, all about playability

“Music production feels pointless now,” says Tim — but years after walking away from DAWs, he’s embraced instrument building. New Modular System is a patchable environment, constructed in Reaktor, that’s truly Exile-ish in philosophy. It’s not about a bunch of wire connections. You drop in colored modules and get straight to tweaking, generating, and playing — with wild, massively diverse results.

Peter Kirn - April 28, 2026

Intellijel made Swells a playable reverb with faders, rise, fall, ebb, and flow

Peter Kirn - April 14, 2026

Bastl’s new Déjà vu is the 4HP module for when you need to fader stuff

Peter Kirn - April 10, 2026

Sitka’s excellent Gravity clock Eurorack module is now open source

Peter Kirn - March 12, 2026

The best way to learn Bitwig Grid, Serum 2 is in Japanese from LOBOTIX

Peter Kirn - March 5, 2026

The developer of Tweakbench wants to remake the DAW without linear time

Peter Kirn - March 4, 2026

Inside the new modules in the free AAS Multiphonics CV-3 v3.1 update

Peter Kirn - February 25, 2026