Meet the Maker - Modular Synths panel with 6 Eurorack Manufacturers

At this year's Winter NAMM show, Vintage King Audio presented the TEC Tracks panel: "Meet the Maker -- Modular Synths".
This short (35 minutes) panel discussion, distributed by Sound On Sound, brought together 5 well-known modular synth makers to talk about the booming Eurorack format.

Panelists included: Dieter Doepfer (Doepfer), Dan Green (4MS), William Matthewson (WMD), Ryan McGuire (Vintage King moderator), Tony Rolando (Make Noise), Brandon Ryan (Roland) and Gene Stopp (Moog Music)

They talked a bit about the history of the Eurorack standard (with it's US-based Inch-metrics... lol), and the influence of live-Eurorack performers on new modules.
William Matthewson from WMD offered an interesting insight of what to expect in the future with new controls, like tactile things, body movement, gloves, the integration of virtual reality and other new futuristic techniques that can convert all kinds of signals into control voltages.

Interesting to hear was also the process behind the whole module-design and where Dieter shared his point of view about the pros and cons of the community-input, mentioning the importance of the Yahoo A-100 Usergroup (and his annoyance about it sometimes) and the creative input from live musicians like the icelandic band GusGus when it comes to developing new modules.
It reminded me of his work with the guys from Kraftwerk in the past, with the development of the Schaltwerk, the vocoder and other projects...

WMD Geiger Counter Eurorack In-Depth Overview

This WMD video appeared on YouTube yesterday.

It gives a nice overview of the WMD Geigercounter Eurorack module.

The Geigercounter is  wavetable distortion/ bit depth and sample rate reducer...

WMD Geigercounter Eurorack module

" The WMD Geiger Counter is hundreds of entirely new face melting sounds.
A high gain modern preamp drives an 8 bit computer, creating sounds which range from nice (tubey overdrive, lofi aliasing, hot gated leads) to total madness (impossible amounts of gain, multiple octave foldover, harsh digital data errors, and piercing sculpted noise)."

Features:
- High Gain Modern Preamp
- Preamp Attenuator
- Direct Input
- Dramatic Tone Control with Disable
- Sample Rate from 260Hz to 200kHz
- 1 to 8 Bit Depth with Mask mode
- 252 Wave Table Modulator
- CV of Sample Rate
- CV of Bit Depth
- CV of Wave Table
- Always saves settings
- Top Quality Components
- Anodized and epoxy screen printed
- Standard 10pin Eurorack Cable
- 10 HP

Video:
WMD - Geiger Counter In-Depth Overview

" Alex takes us throught the features and functions of the WMD Geiger Counter Eurorack Module."

Uploaded by William Mathewson (of WMD)

Modular Wild Presents Profile: WMD Gamma Wave Source Demos by Raul Pena

Raul Pena found out last weekend that the WMD Devices Gamma Wave Source was discontinued.
He had been holding onto the tutorial videos that he made for this a while trying to work them into the current Modular Wild season, but since its discontinued Raul figured... why not release them all.

So here they are; 3 new Raul Pena videos at once... enjoy!

Video 1: Modular Wild Presents PROFILE-WMD Gamma Wave Source

" A brief description of the features of the WMD Gamma Wave Source dual digital wavetable VCO. Sound and Video by Raul Pena."

Video 2: Modular Wild Presents PROFILE-WMD Gamma Wave Source-Wavetables

" A short look at the WMD Gamma Wave Source. Exploring the wavetables of the Dual digital Wavetable VCO and cv control. Sound and Video by Raul Pena."

Video 3: Modular Wild Presents PROFILE-WMD Gamma Wave Source-Effects

" A brief look at the different effects available in the WMD Gamma Wave Source. Sound and Video by Raul Pena."

Raul also created a couple of surveys to help improve his videos,
please help him out by answering a few questions:

Raul's World of Synths Modular Videos
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3YGXKYZ
Modular Wild Video Series
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DZMTQRQ

Find all Raul's tutorial videos on PatchPierre HERE

Find Raul Pena at http://raulsworldofsynths.com/ and on Twitter or YouTube