Free tool dumps KORG minilogue xd patches into images – plus patch sheets for volca modular

Korg sound design fans, you’ll want this: a user has made a free tool that automatically generates images from program presets. (Sounds like a great idea for other synths, too – and we get into other geeky scripts here, as well.) And now is a good time to revisit free patch sheets for volca modular, though for that you’ll need drawing software … or a pen.

Here’s what happens when you let ChatGPT make Eurorack patches for you

Human modular patches may at times involve randomly patching into jacks and seeing what happens – that’s surely part of the fun. But what happens if you let an assistive AI chatbot do the patching? One Gert Braakman decided to find out.

Peter Kirn - March 6, 2023

Sample machines in Elektron Digitakt 1.50: Repitch, Werp, Slice, Oneshot

Elektron has a major update for Digitakt in 1.50 — now with Machines, as Octatrack, Model:Cycles, and Syntakt. Those bring sample warping, slicing, chopping, looping, repitching, and forward/reverse playback. Plus you get fixed-step recording and the ability to insert sample rate reduction pre- or post-filter.

Peter Kirn - March 1, 2023

Mensla’s MS-2 is a great-sounding FM synth with the safety protocols switched off

Peter Kirn - February 28, 2023

Endorphin.es Ghost review: a landmark reverb, distortion, dynamic, multi-FX module

Peter Kirn - February 17, 2023

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

Peter Kirn - February 8, 2023

Learn modular MetaSounds in Unreal, free, and start thinking in procedural sound

Peter Kirn - February 2, 2023

Nonlinear Labs’ C15, the human-centered keyboard instrument, expands sound design features

Peter Kirn - February 1, 2023

Scatter: a granular cloud plug-in with minimalist controls and lovely shimmering pitch

Peter Kirn - January 31, 2023

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