Synthesizers

Teenage Engineering’s OP‑1 Field is much more than a sequel.

Once the preserve of academic and experimental music, granular synthesis is more accessible than ever and has a lot to offer in all sorts of genres.

The A‑126‑2 is a redesign of their long‑discontinued A‑126. It’s a slender 8HP module in Doepfer’s usual utilitarian design...

MIDI is the universal language of the studio — and if you use hardware instruments, you need to understand it!

Electric Indigo is an Austrian music producer, Techno DJ and founder of female:pressure, an international network of women in the electronic music industry.

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.

We engage in some audio archaeology to discover how a pioneer of electronic music created one of her most important works.

Michael Whalen talks about performing his latest instrumental album ‘Imaginary Trains’ to a live audience at the EMEAPP museum, using their extensive collection of rare vintage synthesizers.

Cre8audio’s NiftyKEYZ case might just change your whole approach to modular.

The Majella Implexus is a beautifully made synth with a foot on both coasts.

In collaboration with Christian Bloch of Funque Mod, the LMNC modules have been shrunk back down to Eurorack size and released as finished modules.

Tetragrid is described as "the first magnetic board gate sequencer.”

A lauded synthesist and an inspiring educator, Sarah Belle Reid’s techniques are innovative, explorative and experimental in all the right ways.

Oberheim are back, and doing what they do best — making massive polysynths with a massive sound.

Is there a way to specify, to a DAW such as Pro Tools, how a note will glide to another note and over what duration of time?

New synth‑makers PWM met the Devil at a crossroads at midnight. This is the result.

Is the Zen‑powered X the best Juno Roland have ever made?

MiniMod makers AJH Synth have developed and realised two new modules, Tap Tempo VC‑LFO and Dual RVG Random Voltage Event Generator.

Quasar is the first Eurorack module to tackle 3D audio by using a combination of panning, level, frequency content, phase‑shifting and reverberation to fool the listener into thinking sounds are moving around your head in a three‑dimensional space.

Aimo Scampa designs modules under the moniker of Manifold Research Centre, with an approach that’s as off‑the‑wall as it is fascinatingly clever...

Softube take on Roland’s classic SH-101.