SSL BiG SiX Mixer and Audio Interface – the huge review
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?
Continue ReadingHeck! 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?
Continue ReadingZAPS 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 […]
Continue ReadingThe 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.
Continue ReadingThe 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!
Continue ReadingTaiga 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.
Continue ReadingFor 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 […]
Continue ReadingBurst 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 […]
Continue ReadingMy 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 […]
Continue ReadingToday 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. […]
Continue ReadingThe 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 […]
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