How to shape your sounds with envelope generators. Every synthesizer, even the most primitive, has at least one envelope generator....
In a Eurorack modular system, Falistri is most useful as a pair of flexible modulation sources, though its capabilities go far beyond. Frap Tools calls Falistri...
File away your musical ideas for future use. Think about how you make music. It can be pretty nonstop: playing, listening, producing, and posting finished pieces...
The Evaton Link is one of the best solutions for using a single cable to exchange multiple signals between Eurorack modular systems. Most modular musicians start...
Modulation changes everything when you route control signals from sources to destinations. Turning knobs by hand while a synthesizer is producing a tone is a great...
Exploring harmonic relationships beyond chords and intervals. Chords. What are chords? Oh, that’s right, they are collections of notes sounded at the same time. They have...
The Rossum Electro-Music Panharmonium Mutating Spectral Resynthesizer is a Eurorack module that specializes in altering existing sounds and creating drones — but you can also use...
Modular Synthesis for Beginners… Modular Synthesis for Beginners with Jim Aikin When synthesizers first started to take off, back in the ’60s and ’70s, oscillators were...
Managing the horizontal and vertical dimensions of musical space. Chords. Who doesn’t love chords? Generally speaking and to most people, chords appear to be the basic...
Roland’s first digital synthesizer changed the sound of the late 20th century. By 1987, Yamaha’s DX7 had been the most popular synthesizer on Earth for four...
