Misha from Eventide is an entirely different and original way of performing and composing music, and is also a different kind of generative sequencer. With most instruments or controllers, pressing a key plays the same note every time. With Misha, … Continue reading Review: Eventide Misha – an entirely original improvisation and generative sequencing module
Hector is the Eurorack version of the effects pedal Beebo from Poly Effects. It’s a full virtual modular system in Eurorack format, meaning that inside it are over 90 different digital modules you can patch to each other and create … Continue reading Hector and Beebo Review and Tutorial – Your dream effect without a line of code
Ground Control is a eurorack sequencer by Endorphines – throwing their hat in the ring for master brain of your setup. It has three mono melodic tracks and another 8 lane drum sequencer track. It has an Ableton Live-style grid … Continue reading Endorphines GROUND CONTROL Review and Tutorial – Eurorack Sequencer and Arpeggiator
Metropolix from Intellijel is the follow up to their popular Metropolis sequencer. It takes the same core idea – a sequencer where not all the stages are the same duration – and expands on that in multiple different ways. Is … Continue reading Intellijel Metropolix Review and Full Tutorial
Black Sequencer is a Eurorack sequencer from Erica Synths. It has an ambitious goal of being the brain of a Eurorack setup; and with envelopes and LFOs, it just might take over a few other organs. It’s got four tracks … Continue reading Erica BLACK SEQUENCER Review and Tutorial
The thing that makes modules like Turing Machine and Marbles unique isn’t just their ability to generate random sequences, but also their ability to freeze randomness once a compelling pattern is presented to you. These modules are digital, so they … Continue reading Modular/Analog “RAM”? How to store generative melodies & rhythms using sample & hold and a sequential switch
1010Music just released a new MK2 hardware version of BitBox and a new “mini-me” version of it – Bitbox Micro – two of the most powerful and flexible eurorack samplers, sample players and loopers. In this video, I take a … Continue reading Bitbox Micro vs Bitbox MK2: Review, tutorial, and detailed comparison of 1010music’s new samplers
Voltage Research Lab is now in production and Pittsburgh Modular had a spare prototype to send in for review. VRL is their Buchla-inspired mini synth with a primary complex oscillator that has a unique take at waveshaping and folding, an … Continue reading Review and tutorial – VRL (Voltage Research Lab) from Pittsburgh Modular
Moog’s Spectravox was Moogfest 2019’s Engineering Workshop synth. It’s not available commercially, at least not yet. The only way to get one is to have built it at the workshop (or buy it on eBay…). To see what it’s like … Continue reading Moog Spectravox – detailed overview, and How Vocoders Work
Make Noise have just released the new version of Rene – an update to the original Rene from 2009, which, according to Modular Grid, is the most popular Eurorack sequencer and one of the most popular eurorack modules overall. The … Continue reading Make Noise RENE 2 Review: Eurorack’s top sequencer gets a major redesign