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JW-Modules free Grains, Buffer are must-downloads for VCV Rack
We’ve had a deluge of superb VCV Rack modules, carrying straight over into the first days of the new year. But let’s skip to this one: Jeremy Wentworth’s free Grains is the granular sampler you’ve been waiting for, now available for VCV Rack and 4ms MetaModule. Bonus: my guide to other granular modules in Rack… and a surprise teaser.
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Your iPad and iPhone just became a portal to endless DX7 sounds
You may think you know the Yamaha DX7 from those couple of presets that dominated the 80s. But Oliver Greschke’s Elastic OSC for iPhone and iPad is a reminder of just how much potential Yamaha’s breakthrough FM synth can offer. And now Elastic OSC app can easily import those sounds, with a bunch of unique presets to get you started — plus a link to a cool generative tool that works with anything.
Grayscale Nexus expands on Mutable’s keyframing – free now in VCV Rack
Mutable Instruments’ Frames had one of Émilie’s best and most underrated ideas: apply keyframing, as in animation and motion, to modular control. Now, Grayscale Modular is developing that concept with 12 channels and more control. It’s available for $399 as hardware, or you can try it right now in VCV Rack for free.
Peter Kirn - June 9, 2025
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Polyend Synth is a $499 polysynth with grid and a ton of synth engines
Peter Kirn - November 12, 2024
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Ornament & Crime, open module, gets new powers in Phazerville 1.7
Peter Kirn - February 20, 2024
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Dozens of recipes on Mutable Instruments Plaits, for your Eurorack kitchen
Peter Kirn - March 19, 2023
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Flexible modular percussion, modulation: cool tricks with Tymp Legio, Peaks Dead Man’s Catch
Peter Kirn - January 22, 2023
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After Later’s modules impress: a complex oscillator line, new takes on Mutable Instruments
Peter Kirn - October 3, 2022
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