Current 2.0 evolved into one of last year’s most compelling synths

Minimal Audio’s Current, more than even most sprawling soft synths, is as much a sound creation laboratory as it is an instrument. Current 2.0 and online updates helped realize their original vision, and it stands out as a highlight of last year – and one to dig in deeper in 2025.

Music Thing Modular Workshop System: patch, hack, code, mic, jack in

Tom Whitwell and Thonk have revealed their latest: a complete modular system ready to be tote in its own hard case. The Workshop System has all the modular, patchable goodness you’d expect—contact mics and guitar/stereo line inputs—but it’s also got a computer inside, with unique programmable cards.

Peter Kirn - October 8, 2024

Dnipro x Sinevibes Radiant multi-effects Eurorack module – made in Ukraine

Dnipro Modular and Sinevibes are collaborating on an upcoming Eurorack module, adding Sinevibes’ effects to Dnipro’s module design. And the module is being produced in Ukraine. We’ll have more info on this soon, but I’m set to clear some rack space already. It’s a shining bit of collaborative engineering with friendly design and cosmic capabilities.

Peter Kirn - September 30, 2023

Full Moog Moogerfooger effects suite is now on iPad and iPhone – Filtatron redux!

Peter Kirn - August 14, 2023

SynthieCat gives Ableton Live the deep matrix and effects of the 1971 EMS Synthi A

Peter Kirn - February 8, 2023

New in Arturia Pigments 4 soft synth: UI, tuning, modulation, effects, filters, engines, sounds

Peter Kirn - December 13, 2022

FL Studio 20.8.4 – Apple Silicon, Frequency Shifter, video scrubbing, 3X oscillators

Peter Kirn - September 6, 2021

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