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Modfest 2022

By Robin de Geus on December 15, 2021
This year's Modular Festival will be held in Red Bar, Auckland on the 29th of October from 20:00 - 23.45. Come celebrate the creativity and sonic diversity of modular synthesisers with live music performances from some of Aotearoa's most dynamic modular synthesists.  It's a great event to see live performances, catch up with other modular […]
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Volsef

By Robin de Geus on December 15, 2021
Volsef believes modular is the future of sound design and supplies Synthesizer New Zealand with with quality hand-made products, striving to a similar goal as the store which is enabling people to enter the world of modular synthesis.
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cyberneticOhm

By Robin de Geus on December 13, 2021
cyberneticOhm is a technological performing arts + modular synth electronica collective.
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Biobird x Joranalogue

By Robin de Geus on December 12, 2021
Caleb Bird aka Biobird approached us December 2021 with the mission to pursue his eurorack dreams. Synthesizer New Zealand has provided him with multiple modules from Joranalogue and Mutable Instruments such as the Filter 8 and Mutable Instruments Veils. The hunt for perfection doesn't stop there with Orbit 3 coming to New Zealand in January […]
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History of Synths

By Robin de Geus on December 12, 2021
The definitions To learn a little bit more about the history of synthesis, we would first need to ask ourselves ‘what is synthesist?‘ The definition from the dictionary tells us the following about the person behind the synthesizer: synthesist - an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods Vocabulary.com Besides the reference to the formation […]
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Modular 101

By Robin de Geus on December 12, 2021
Whether hardware or software, most synths out in the wild have a fixed architecture. This means that the manufacturer designed it with a set of components that interact with each other in a set way.  The standard signal path usually consists of an oscillator section will feed into a filter section, which will then feed […]
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