Wiggler is a bendy expressive DIY synth – and its creator is sharing their process
You've seen mechanical engineers attempt expressive synths, and real, polished products. But why not have fun with a slightly more...
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Khabat Abas of Kurdistan-Iraq talking about cellos, bombshells, silenced stories of women
Making instruments, making music overlaps directly with the issue of mapping sound to emotional experience, meaning, and orientation. Let's listen...
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...
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...
Watch legendary Octave One live in action, with tables full of gear
Few people can power through a live set quite like Detroit icons Lenny and Lawrence Burden - and few can...
Minimal Audio delivers Cluster Delay, a multi-tap with sound sculpting extras
Yes, there are too many plug-ins, but I've been looking for something like this for a while - especially to...
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...
From a Neapolitan hard techno master, a beautiful, nasty waveshaping distortion plug-in
If we can connect to artists through albums, especially as producers ourselves, why not through instruments and effects, too? A...
Mensla’s MS-2 is a great-sounding FM synth with the safety protocols switched off
Over 60 years after its invention, FM synthesis is still full of surprises. And that's what makes the free MS-2...
Meng Qi’s new Wingie2 firmware is inspired by the late Rob Hordijk’s Blippoo Box
Dutch designer Rob Hordijk inspired many instrument creators before his death last fall. Meng Qi is one of those moved...
