The Livewire AFG is now available.
This sexy beast, which we previewed at the 2008 Winter NAMM Show Synthgasm, is probably the coolest modular synth oscillator ever designed. Livewire’s Mike Brown demo’d it for me at NAMM, and I left thinking that he was one of the nicest guys in the world of modular synths and [...]

Mega.ModularPlanner.co.uk has a cool new online modular synthesizer planner for Eurorack-size modules. 
It’s a work in progress, but it has modules from the biggest manufacturers already. It’s just missing scanned images from several of the companies. 
Note that it does let you do some things that might not be possible with real modules (see the image above). 
I’d [...]

The 2008 NAMM Show wasn’t a great year for new synth and electronic music gear……but it was a good year.
We’ve already mentioned tons of great new gear that we saw at NAMM in the last couple of weeks, but, following in the footsteps of last year’s modular analog synthgasm, here are our picks for 2008’s [...]

Electro-Acoustic Research (EAR), a consortium of modular synth designers, has announced a new line of modular synthesizer gear. The modules will be available in MOTM-compatible and Doepfer-compatible formats.
EAR describes their modules as “bent” and “not plain vanilla”.
EAR features the work of two established modular synth designers, Mike Brown of Livewire and Peter Grenader of Plan [...]