Incline, “toposonic corpus explorer,” transforms granular synthesis

Imagine granular synthesis, taken in entirely different dimensions. That’s Incline — Cristian Vogel’s cross-bred mixture of microsound and machine learning segmentation. It explodes sounds into a highly configurable topography, then applies precise envelopes, with unique rhythmic and textural results. Here’s how to explore those strange new worlds.

Squiggy’s WaveTracker: open-source tracker – and other free tools

WaveTracker is a fun, free tracker for Windows that features wavetable editing, more than 100 instrument macros, and visualization for a glitchy good time. And that brings up the many other free trackers you might try out these days…

Peter Kirn - September 5, 2024

Liquid Sky d-vices V4CO & GLITHc: deep, glitchy, bendable wavetables

V4CO is more devilish proof that in Eurorack, anything is possible – even the improbable, unruly, and joyfully unwise. More than just an oscillator, it’s a demented, destructive voice combining 8-bit wavetables, sub-bass, overdrive, and VCAs, adding patchable circuit-bending mayhem with the GLITHc expander.

Peter Kirn - March 25, 2024

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

Peter Kirn - December 13, 2022

Review: nanobox adds palm-sized synthesis to 1010music’s cute gear line

Andreas Roman - January 28, 2022

Afrorack is back with cheap DIY modules, from African percussion to MS-20 filters

Peter Kirn - September 21, 2021

Sequential’s Pro 3 gets new wavetables from some wild sources, and patch morphing

Peter Kirn - July 9, 2021

Deep in Serum: six sound tricks to explore just by double-clicking, with maestro Francis Preve

Francis Preve - January 15, 2021

Novation’s super synth for Superbooth leaks: 16-voice Summit

Peter Kirn - May 8, 2019