Sound Modules

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.

Erica have teamed up with software developers 112dB to create a genuinely original synthesizer.

The Itinera module is a Eurorack filter developed by Stefano Bersanetti at Euterpe Synthesizer Laboratories.

The Monumatic is Knobula’s third polyphonic sound generator. It picks up the form and much of the intention of their first outing, but includes expansions and more features.

The Archaea Exchange falls into what is possibly the author's favourite category of modules: essentially very simple but with massive scope.

The Lublin 1957 from XAOC Devices is a two‑channel pingable VCA module with three ping responses and a gain limiting circuit to prevent peaking or distortion.

The unsettlingly named Seventh Summoner is a really simple sequencer, and as with the Arp Of Darkness, it does just enough to make itself fabulously useful.

The DitDit takes text as its stimulus and spits out Morse code, which makes for ideal translation into a language of triggers and gates...

Erica’s Perkons HD‑01 is one of the most inventive drum machines of recent years, and the Perkons Voice is a single Perkons’ synth voice in Eurorack form.

Those familiar with my reviews might have sussed by now that, when describing multifunctional modules, I do my level best...

Winter Plankton's DassBrum module does a lot more than mimic a bass drum.