Bastl Instruments - News and Rumours
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The Best FM Synths for your Music Production Setup
04 Jan · Looking for a way to get into FM synthesis? We've selected some of the best FM synths with both sound design and song-creation tools.
Best Product Videos of 2023: Promo Clips that Rocked
02 Jan · Tired of dull promo clips? The best product videos of 2023 were anything from colorful to mildly disturbing – but never boring!
Bastl Instruments Kastle ARP: Pocket sized modular mayhem
22 Sep 2023 · Bastl Instruments' Kastle ARP is an alarmingly fun modular melody generator that forces sine waves through a digital waveshaper for tonal delights.
Midweek Modular: All the fun of the Superbooth fair
17 May 2023 · Superbooth was huge, fun and full of vigorous patching. Here are a handful of Eurorack modular products that stood out for me this year.
Superbooth 23: Bastl Instruments Basil Flexible Stereo Space Delay
10 May 2023 · Basil is more than a Pizza garnish, it's a creative explosion of flavour that will invigorate, modulate and pull you forwards and backwards in time.
The Best Budget Samplers for Music Production
05 May 2023 · Sampling is still one of the most powerful aspects of music production, we've selected some of the best budget samplers for creating beats.
NAMM 2023: Bastl Instruments Bestie – The mixer designed to sound bad!
12 Apr 2023 · The Bastl Instruments Bestie is a mini analogue mixer that’s been designed to overload with up to 20dB of additional gain possible on every channel.
Midweek Modular: Dominus, Thererec and Coma Reactor 2
08 Feb 2023 · This week we dig into the Dual VCO of Dominus, capture gestures through Thererec and get some delirious textual delays from Coma Reactor 2.
Bastl Instruments Aikido: Dynamic Quad VCA mixer with special skills
08 Feb 2023 · Aikido pits Bastl Instruments against Casper in a modular dojo of non-violent redirection momentum, VCA mixing and side-chaining dynamics.
The Best Eurorack Modules of 2022: Our Top 5 for modular mayhem
26 Dec 2022 · Despite the year's chip shortages we've seen some interesting and unusual modules this year. Here's my pick of the Best Eurorack Modules of 2022
Microgranny Monolith: The best Microgranny ever from Bastl Instruments
14 Oct 2022 · Microgranny Monolith takes the Microgranny 2.0 to its most iconic form and final evolution. It's a lo-fi granular sampling box with better everything.
Bastl Instruments Softpop SP2 gets an oscillator upgrade
03 Oct 2022 · The Softpop SP2 synth is getting an upgrade to add a digital VCO that comes with a raft of extra waveforms, features and a truckload of stability.
Midweek Modular: Superbooth 22 highlights
18 May 2022 · Superbooth 22 was a huge success, full of a vast array of electronic music-making machines. Here's what caught my eye in new modules and Eurorack.
Superbooth 22: Bastl Instruments Pizza, digital oscillator with extra jalapenos
11 May 2022 · Pizza is served with a complex slice of digital oscillations, waveshaping and FM. Take an incredible journey to discover new flavours and textures.
Softpop SP2: Love and chaos in a radically evolved subtractive synth
06 Jan 2022 · A rampant love affair between noise and melody, bangers and angels, bass and chaos, tied up in an effusion of sockets and sliders in the Softpop SP2.
Bastl Instruments is teasing Softpop 2 for the new year
21 Dec 2021 · The Bastl Instruments Softpop is a weirdly organic light and sound synthesizer with lots of playable faders. Softpop 2 is on its way and looks groovier than ever.
Superbooth 2021: Bastl Instruments BUDDY your new stereo mixing best friend
09 Sep 2021 · BUDDY is four channels of stereo mixing in a compact Eurorack module that also has preamps for line-level signals ideal for hybrid setups.
Kastle Drum: mini patchable industrial glitch machine from Bastl Instruments
03 Dec 2020 · Remember the Kastle pocket-sized patchable synth? Well, this is the Kastle Drum its unruly rhythm-based sibling for industrial glitchy grooves.
Revolutionise your synth jams with Bastl Instruments 3-voice Midilooper
10 Aug 2020 · The Midilooper was one of the coolest boxes to emerge over the virtual stay-at-home Superbooth and it's shipping now. Record your MIDI input, loop it, quantise it and route it to 3 different boxes.
Bastl Instruments MIDI Looper box and Eurorack IKARIE Stereo Filter
24 Apr 2020 · Bastl Instruments has revealed a couple of new products: a MIDI Looper in a desktop box and a new IKARIE stereo analogue filter in collaboration with Casper Electronics and inspired by space.
NAMM 2020: Bastl Instruments and Casper Electronics Waver wavefolding drone mixer
14 Jan 2020 · In my view, Casper Electronics and Bastl Instruments bring out the best in each other. This latest collaboration called Wave is a wave folding drone mixer.
OMG! Bastl Instruments has a mutes – LOL!
27 Nov 2019 · Somewhere, lost in the realms of internet shorthand Bastl Instruments has released an unfortunately named passive mute module called LOL.