SOUND ON SOUND
The latest version of Qu-Bit's Bloom sequencer comes kitted out with a whole host of new features including per-step clock-sync’d ratchets, new random variation functions, additional channel outputs and more.
The latest device to take up the challenge of ‘tape without tape’ is the Stardust, which Qu‑Bit describe as a ‘cosmic tape looper’.
Qu-Bit's Stardust captures up to 10 minutes of high-quality audio (or 5 minutes in stereo) and allows users to loop and transform it through intuitive controls.
In this first part of an occasional series exploring modular synthesis and live performance, Will Stokes talks to experimental electronic musician Scanner about the choice of his favourite modules he'll showcase in his closing performance.
Drawing its inspiration from vast swaths of desert in the American Southwest, the Mojave is concerned with all things granular.
The discovery of a truly new sound — a reality‑shifting sonic experience — is the never‑ending goal of modular. It’s this very drive that constitutes the heart of Qu‑Bit’s Aurora.
Qu‑Bit have been on a progressive Eurorack journey for the last five years or so. Hark back to the much lauded Chord...
I don’t think I’ve ever been as pleasantly surprised by a module as much as I have with the Data Bender...
Qu‑Bit’s Surface collects together several percussive‑style physical modelling algorithms in one 10HP module.
The original Chord module, reviewed in SOS February 2017 by Jyoti Mishra, offered an excellent way to get polyphony and, more...
