Buchla Ziggy: the complex oscillator gets a friendly standalone synth

It’s been decades in coming: what if you took the best parts of the classic Buchla complex oscillator with its, well, ziggy waveshapes, and built a friendly compact synth around it? It’s all that modular fun, but in a package that lets you tweak right away without connecting a single patch cord.

The low pass gate, now in stereophonic sound: Make Noise unveils DXG

It’s about time the glorious low pass gate, that staple of West Coast synthesis, got a stereophonic treatment. Make Noise just added to their stereo range with the DXG Dual Stereo Low Pass Gate and Mixer.

Peter Kirn - January 8, 2024

Multiphonics CV-2 goes waveshaping: what’s in the AAS modular’s 2.1 update

AAS’ Multiphonics CV-2 modular is great; what we want now is more modules. And AAS is delivering, with five new modules for your West Coast, waveshaping, signal sculpting and mangling pleasure. Five may not sound like a lot, but you can do a lot with a couple of these. Here’s a look at what AAS have added in CV-2 version 2.1.

Peter Kirn - August 4, 2023

Serge GTO multi-function module, now shipping, brings a rare legacy to Eurorack

Peter Kirn - April 24, 2023

Compusynth video demo and tutorial, to help you go west coast Altair

Peter Kirn - December 9, 2022

Compusynth is like a love child of a west coast modular and the Altair 8800 computer

Peter Kirn - December 5, 2022

Watch this video with tricks to get more out of KORG’s west-coast volca modular

Peter Kirn - August 12, 2022

Free Eurorack holiday – all these Instruo modules are now on VCV Rack; here’s a guide

Peter Kirn - December 22, 2020

Review: volca modular takes on creative synthesis in a small package

Francis Preve - January 15, 2019