Scott Wilson speaks to four artists using the Eurorack format – Russell E.L. Butler, Raica, Luke Abbott and Lady Starlight – to get some insight into the realities of using a modular synthesizer.

Synth modules come in all shapes and sizes and not all are compatible with one another in terms of the cases they fit and power used. Eurorack is the closest thing we have to a unifying standard ...

If you like building things, electronic music and want to learn about synthesizers, a modular synthesizer is a perfect option for you. Audio synthesis is the creation of electronic sounds by ...

Hector is essentially a Digit / Beebo, but in a 30 HP Eurorack module. It has all the same effects modules, including the excellent convolution reverbs, ports of Mutable Instruments modules and a ...

Los Angeles-based Strange Electronic has launched a Kickstarter for a new kind of Eurorack synth module that doesn’t make any sound at all. Called Lightstorm, it controls full-spectrum LED ...

Speaking on synth documentary I Dream of Wires in 2011, Trent Reznor pinpointed just why Eurorack has captured the imagination of musicians around the world: “It’s brought a lot of that magic ...

SYNTH WEEK 2024: For any eurorack modular aficionado out there, ambient music will most likely be on your radar, even if it’s an area you haven’t dabbled in. But what does ambient mean and how do you ...

Mother-32 was Moog’s first foray into this Eurorack-friendly, semi-modular format. In many ways, Moher-32 is the most traditional instrument in the range, based around a fairly straightforward ...

Eurorack synthesizer builds are known for a lot of things; simplicity isn’t necessarily one of them. However, not everything on a modular synthesizer build has to be inordinately complicated,… ...

In the video above MycoLyco offers up five minutes of a “flush” (or crop) of pink oyster mushrooms playing a Eurorack modular synthesizer. That is, a synthesizer that consists of separate ...