It's nice inside the world of 4/4; you get steady rhythms and a natural foundation for electronic music. If you dare to venture outside those safe confines, there's a world of alternate grooves and interesting polyrhythms. Let's watch as Omri Cohen uses VCV Rack to approach the technique of patching different time signatures in modular.
A relative newcomer to VCV, Seaside Modular has released their fourth virtual module for beta testing.
TALA is a sample-based tabla machine. The module consists of 12 "bols" - aka sounds - that can be played by either trigger or (virtual) push button.
Keeping up with all Superbooth24 releases, updates, and prototypes is hard work. Well, it was hard work. By our count there's an insane 92 new modules, 8 module prototypes, 7 modular-related hardware announcements, 2 new modular systems, 2 firmware updates, and 1 pedal. Let's patch in.
This is Alex from Modular Bias and I'm excited to announce our first newsletter ModBias Weekly – a weekly, no-frills update on everything modular synthesis.
We're baaaack! Let's get caught up on a few things before smashing everyone with Superbooth 24' news. First item, the amazing Acidus Versio alternative firmware from Blue Nautilus.
If you were lucky enough to attend Knobcon last year, 2023 was clearly the "Year of the Mixer." Larger offerings from Noise Engineering, 1010 Music, and Boredbrain got significant coverage but there's one company who seems to have snuck under the radar: After Later Audio and the modular Nightlife Mixer Series.