Sound Modules

Are the motorised knobs of Melbourne Instruments’ debut synth a gimmick, or should all synths have them?

Sometimes Knobula’s Pianophonic module sounds a whole lot like a piano, sometimes it just sounds piano‑ish, and sometimes it sounds nothing like a piano.

The Triple Cross is a three‑channel stereo crossfader and panner with some rather powerful tricks up its sleeve.

American musician and technologist Corry Banks, aka Bboytech, is the driving force behind Modbap.

Intellijel pack their considerable Eurorack experience into a single standalone synth.

The Molten Motion Meter is the fruit of a collaboration between Robin and DIY‑leaning Eurorack company Befaco.

In the biscuit barrel of modular, ACRONYM is a chocolate Hobnob dunked into a chilli mochaccino.

Arushi Jain has toured the world over as Modular Princess, with a critically acclaimed brand of electronic composition infused with the influence of Hindustani classical music.

Roland’s SH‑101‑inspired S‑1 is a great‑sounding synth with surprising depth.

ZAPS is designed for fast, percussive sounds that spit, splat, zip and zap, although it won’t shy away from the odd melody either.

Having joined the team at Moog Music back in 2015, product strategist Max Ravitz was a key player in the development of the widely lauded Moog Mother‑32.

The Trinity is a three‑voice drum module with four separate synthesis algorithms to generate its sounds.

Newcomers GS Music are kicking things off in style with an ambitious polysynth.

Think you know what analogue synthesis sounds like? Pittsburgh’s Taiga might change that...

We profile Dutch designer Matthijs Munnik of Cosmotronic.

Make Noise need almost no introduction. Among the prime movers in the Eurorack explosion, former Moog employee Tony Rolando...

Coral is an eight‑voice, eight‑part, 10‑sound‑engine synthesizer in a 14HP module.

Sofia is an oscillator that synthesizes vocal‑like formants without filtering, achieved by superimposing decaying sinusoidal tones onto each individual cycle of a fundamental base waveform.

There’s a running gag in modular circles about how someone has just completed their system. But in a few days, maybe a week, other modules will start popping up out of drawers and things will change.

Cosmix Pro is an eight‑channel Eurorack mixer offering a broad range of routing possibilities, with generous amounts of visual clarity and several functions usually reserved for much larger mixers.

Wobbler2 adds a drum synthesizer to the Wobbler LFO module that was released in 2018.