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.

But with the recent rise in popularity of Eurorack modular synthesis, and the ongoing trend for affordable analogue instruments, CV-equipped, re-routable synthesizers are very much back in fashion..

Ethernet is how we often network computers together, particularly when they’re too important to leave on a fussy WiFi connection. Have you ever thought about listening to Ethernet signals, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Which modular synthesizer is best? Modular synthesizers are one of the more elusive instruments in the modern music world, largely basing their sound on combinations of electrical signals and ...

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 ...

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,… ...