Music gear companies converged in California for NAMM 2020, and they brought new synthesizers with them. Every January, more than 100,000 musicians descend on the Anaheim...
This month we go beyond the basics and dive into logic operations, variable step sequencing, and modular polyphony. Learning the basics of any technology is important,...
With Eurorack modules like Four Bricks Rook, you don’t have to choose between music that sounds mechanical and music that sounds out of control. The music...
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...
Armed with a Moog IIIc modular synthesizer and on the fast track to success, Matt Morton composed the soundtrack to the film Apollo 11. When he landed...
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...
The Rossum Electro-Music Panharmonium Mutating Spectral Resynthesizer specializes in altering existing sounds and creating drones — but you can also use it to create intriguing electronic...
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...
Make your synth talk with subtractive synthesis and ring modulation. Recently I discovered it’s easy to make surprisingly realistic vocal sounds, called phonemes, using any subtractive...
