Sound Modules

Torque is not a parameter you encounter very often in modular synthesis. And yet the BeetTweek from subMatrix is full of it.

The Bishop’s Miscellany MkII can record CV and gate signals into two channels and output them as stepped, scaled notes in up to 64 steps.

MPE is becoming ever‑more prevalent, and plenty of desktop hardware synths are getting in on the action.

Black Corporation present their ISE-NIN Voice, which offers a complete Jupiter‑style semi‑modular synth voice in Eurorack form.

This virtual modular environment can accept patches ported over from the free VCV Rack, and can create virtual patches internally.

Sequencing in Eurorack has always felt like a bit of a problem. How does the Tobinski Sequencer's approach weigh up?

Future Sound Systems’ debut desktop is very much in a class of its own.

SED‑CSM, from Berlin’s Rides In The Storm, is a full analogue synth voice, with its own mixer, packed into a big‑but‑really‑very‑small 36HP.

SuperKar+ can produce up to 32 voices and has a bi‑timbral split to offer a Chord voice and a separate polyphonic Solo voice all within the one 12HP module.

Instruo’s first foray into standalone synthesizers is both ambitious and original.

The Boundary Layer is a module whose design actually harks back to a much more classic synth topology. How will Schlappi fare in the heritage game?

The humble kick drum has come a long way and perhaps we’ve reached the peak with the Ohmforce Bohm “frontier of kick synthesis” system.

This diminutive module combines an envelope with a VCA to accept audio signals and render them, well, percussive.

Like a medieval cathedral, the Redshift 6 is a massively ambitious creation. There are other similarities too...

This is Not Rocket Science (TiNRS) thought it might be nice to create a space, within space, where cosmic entities exist as the elements of a deep galactic reverb.

From Omnitone of Canada, we have a pair of colourful rhythm‑makers that can operate separately, or as a percussive pair.

GS Music have packed seven voices of analogue polyphony into a box that’s as well made as it is small and blue.

ADDAC511 is a four‑channel distributor of all manner of unpredictability, no matter the scope of your stochastic ambitions.

UDO’s ribbon controller puts Super Gemini‑style expression at your fingertips.

The third wave of the 3rd Wave reduces both size and price, but retains the sound that made us love it in the first place.

SOS News Editor Luke Wood travelled to Dreadbox HQ in Athens, Greece where he met with Orfeas for a first look and demonstration of their latest desktop synthesizer, the ARTEMIS.