Reviews Archives - Molten Music Technology

SSL BiG SiX Mixer and Audio Interface – the huge review

July 12, 2023robinv

Heck! I’ve never done such a long review. Clocking in at nearly 2 hours, this feels rather deep and intense, but how else do you review such a device?

Winter Plankton ZAPS Review

June 9, 2023robinv

ZAPS is a digitally controlled analogue drum voice that’s too much fun to play with. Whether it’s cracking through sounds with every trigger, playing with the front panel or finding weird levels of melodic beauty, this module has loads of depth. Buy ZAPS from Perfect Circuit Plankton website. I did a couple of extra videos […]

OXI Instruments Coral – Polyphonic Multitimbral Eurorack synth Review

April 24, 2023robinv

The Coral has 10 polyphonic sound engines packed inside along with a filter, envelopes and some reverb and chorus. It’s a polyphonic and multitimbral Plaits with sample playing set up as eight entire synthesizer voices.

TiNRS Wobbler 2 LFO and Drum Synth – Full review and demo

April 21, 2023April 21, 2023robinv

The Wibbler 2 is a fascinating LFO and also a source of fun drum synth and sampled sounds. The only problem is deciding what to use it for!

Pittsburgh Modular Taiga Synthesizer review

February 17, 2023March 24, 2023robinv

Taiga is a 3-oscillator monophonic/paraphonic analogue synthesizer that blends East with West coast synthesis in a highly explorable adventure. Buy from: Thomann – https://thmn.to/thoprod/560017?offid=1&affid=1460 Perfect Circuit – https://tinyurl.com/perfectcircuit-pittsburghtaiga Sweetwater – https://imp.i114863.net/6b0mPQ https://pittsburghmodular.com/taiga Official Patch Guide now available – here.

Cherry Audio GX-80 Review: Dream synth or clunky classic?

November 23, 2022robinv

For me, the beauty of the Yamaha CS-80 was never in the instrument itself; it was in what Vangelis did with it. There’s nothing about the bulk of this synth that particularly appeals to me. It’s unwieldy, ungainly, strange and somewhat ugly. Give me a cool Sequential or moody Moog anytime, but this? It’s some […]

AJH Synth Multi Burst Envelopes Review

November 23, 2022robinv

Burst modules tend to give you a bunch of triggers or gates in response to an event. It’s like a rattling, a ratcheting or a fast slap about the face. You could use them to add sudden explosions of activity or if you massage them correctly they can produce interesting and varying rhythms for running […]

PWM Malevolent synthesizer review

November 9, 2022November 11, 2022robinv

My initial impression of the Malevolent was a bit of a car crash. I couldn’t get any sound out, couldn’t find what it was I needed to do. This was all during a live stream, so there was all sorts of pressure to get it playing, and I couldn’t seem to see the synth through […]

Befaco PONY VCO Review

September 25, 2022September 25, 2022robinv

Today we’re looking at the PONY VCO from Befaco. Why is it called the pony? I don’t think it’s important. What is important is that it’s an adorable, mini, compact analogue VCO with Wave Folding, Through Zero FM modulation and a built-in VCA. It’s the perfect little module for a small compact little modular system. […]

Bastl Pizza review and sound demo

September 19, 2022September 19, 2022robinv

The Pizza from Bastl Instruments is a fascinating digital oscillator with self-modulating FM and wave folding shenanigans. It’s carefully curated to make it full of sweet spots and nearly always musical. If you don’t normally like FM and audio rate modulations, then this might be for you. Here’s my video review and also an extended […]