Welcome to the written version of this month’s Molten Monthly. It’s taken straight from the video and edited a bit to make it readable otherwise, you’re not missing a thing. For the video version, please head over to my YouTube channel. Also, I have affiliate accounts with Thomann, Perfect Circuit, Sweetwater and Clockface Modular, so if […]
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Welcome to all the best bits of synth, modular and music tech news from the last month in a wonderfully long transcript from my packed-out video. For the video version please head over to my YouTube channel. We had a NAMM, it seemed to go by and nobody really noticed. There are a few guitars […]
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Inspired by Buchla magic the West Pest embraces wave folding and dynamics to offer a left-field synthesizer experience. The West Pest is of course Cre8audio’s counterpart to the East Beast, a synthesizer I’ve already reviewed which is butchery smooth with that fantastic filter. So what is it that the West Pest offers that the East […]
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Today we’re looking at this teeny weeny Korg Volca FM2, the new version of the very popular Volca FM. It’s a little DX7 in a box or at least that’s what we like to say. It has that styling, It has the sound and now perhaps with version two it also has the feel of […]
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Today I’m reviewing the Nymphes six-voice analogue polyphonic synthesizer from Dreadbox. The review is an edited transcript from my video review (below) for people who prefer to read. What you immediately notice is that it’s very small, adorably small. It’s made completely of metal, it feels as rigid as you could possibly imagine and it’s […]
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I’ve got shed loads of stuff to talk about in this month’s Superbooth infused edition so I’m going to dispense with the pithy introductions and let’s just get straight to it. Superbooth I’m sure you are all bored silly with Superbooth by now and probably rightly so but I was there for a day and […]
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The East Beast is an East-coast synthesis-inspired subtractive semi-modular little synthesizer and Eurorack voice. It has one oscillator, a filter, an envelope, an LFO, VCA and then just a little bit of magic permeating in through the bottom section. It’s capable of smooth buttery sounds, of weirdness and strangeness; it’s capable of taking you out […]
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