Modular Synth

Patch cables — arguably more necessary to a modular synth system than the modules themselves. I was a bit inspired to write this after reading Bogdan Raczynski’s article about super thin patch cables; his article goes into some detail with regards to the the benefits of the Tendrils right-angle cables…

What I Learned from Combining Max and VCV Rack An absolute headache but it was fun :) Note: (Apologies for the crappy mic audio and clipping that occurs. Vimeo was my only recording option but at least it got the job done) A Journey to Remember Let me just start off by saying that this project was equally fascinating as it was…

AmbieNFT: HASH DERIVED | HUMAN PATCHED | HARDWARE SYNTHESISED MISSION STATEMENT: AmbieNFT is a collection of 256 individually minted, single-edition generative music NFTs combining hash derived compositional rules with hardware based modular synthesis for unprecedented generative musicality.

On the third day of Christmas Krannaken.com gives to you VCV Rack modular synth. As a free modular synth, this is the best way for beginners to get into modular synthesis. This will also enable you to shape and mould your own sound from scratch. This was initially published on…

Freebie Friday this week brings the VK1 by Blamsoft. This is a nice little softsynth and is especially good if you are making electro base or synthwave music. Being free is also another great bonus and a way for Blamsoft to get as many downloads of this synth as possible. …

The Eurocase is a case to start building your own modular synthesizer. Modular synthesizers have been around since the 1970s (Source). Doepfer Musikelektronik has had among many others great influence on today’s hype about modular synthesizers a.k.a eurorack systems. Even though digital music production rapidly advances, more and more people…

I’m not really sure what qualifies for ‘modeling’ these days. There is no governing body that manages what you’re allowed to called ‘modeled’. ‘Model’ implies physical modeling, and so we think of strike and excitation/impulse generators fed into a resonant network. But ‘model’ could simply mean a broad category of…

David Tudor was a pianist and experimental music composer who pioneered the creation of live electronic music in the mid-1960s. He performed many early works by John Cage, Christian Wolff, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Stefan Wolpe,and La Monte Young.Many of these composers wrote pieces expressly for Tudor and…

This year I’ve been thinking about scale. Miniaturisation is unstoppable, but maybe there’s a way we can have our cake and eat it. —