Best Music Gear of 2025: Artist + Creator Picks - Perfect Circuit

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"2025 is drawing to a close, so we returned to a time-honored tradition: we asked some of our pals + some of our favorite artists/content creators to tell us about THEIR favorite gear acquisition of the year. We heard about new Make Noise modules, Elektron's fresh takes on sampling, and even about — gasp! — an AUDIO INTERFACE!

Just some fun times talkin' about fun gear :)

Scope it out and read all about the gear in question on our blog, Signal.

Special thanks to all of our pals — links & timestamps below:
0:05 ‪@sarahbellereid‬ & the Make Noise PoliMaths
2:50 ‪@soffter‬ & the BASTL Citadel Wave Bard
5:24 ‪@AudioPilz‬ & the SSL18
7:37 ‪@MidlifeSynthesist‬ & the Akai MPC Live III
10:49 ‪@SONWU‬ & the Ableton Move
13:50 ‪@BennJordan‬ & the SOMA Terra
16:43 ‪@JorbLovesGear‬ & the Michigan Synth Works MSW-810
18:51 ‪@EZBOT_‬ & the Elektron Tonverk


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Perfect Circuit is an independent electronic instrument shop with an online store at https://www.perfectcircuit.com/ and a Burbank, California showroom at 2405 Empire Ave. We're open seven days a week, 12-8 PM, and our entire inventory is available to try out in person. Get your hands on the most excellent analog and digital synthesizers, effect pedals, Eurorack modular synths, drum machines, recording gear, and more!

Learn about electronic music, techniques, and gear on our blog, Signal: https://www.perfectcircuit.com/signal"

Ways To Make Noise | Make Noise

video upload by MAKEN0ISE

"The Bob Moog Foundation's Raffle for a custom 15U Eurorack modular system, featuring a Spectraphon in the middle Oscillator slot, ends Dec 19th at midnight! More info and enter here: http://bit.ly/BMFEurorack2025

Also, let's Make some Noise!

Get your Morphagene Noise Reels here!
https://freesound.org/people/makenois...

http://www.makenoisemusic.com"

“Rear Door” Brainwaves controlling a Buchla Morphagene & Magnetic Freak Gaussian CV/MIDI setup 🧠🎛️✨

video upload by Stephano Gavilanes

"New biofeedback exploration using brainwaves via the Soundmachines BI1 Brainterface to control a hybrid CV/MIDI Buchla setup with the Fake Noise - Morphagene, Magnetic Freak - Gaussian, and additional sample manipulation via MIDI👌🏽

Hope you enjoy it! 🤙🏼

Music composed and recorded by Stephano Gavilanes.© Copyright 2025. All rights reserved."

Roland D-05, Make Noise Strega & Ableton Mode | Ambient Drone

video upload by Akihiko Matsumoto

"Sequencer: Ableton Mode https://akihikomatsumoto.sellfy.store...
Discover the Sacred Sounds of the Past: A Generative Sequencer Inspired by Medieval Chant
Immerse yourself in a groundbreaking tool designed for creators of ambient, experimental, contemporary music, IDM, and electronica. This Max for Live generative sequencer fuses historical depth with cutting-edge technology, offering a unique journey through time and sound. Historical Roots, Modern Expression
Developed over a year of intensive research, this device draws from a rich tapestry of medieval chant manuscripts and the intricate patterns of neume notation. Delve into the essence of the eight church modes, enriched with the proto-characteristics of Ionian and Aeolian modes foretelling the rise of major and minor tonalities. Infinite Melodic Possibilities
Let the sequencer generate melodies imbued with the organic flow and spiritual resonance of early music, now reimagined for contemporary creativity. Whether sculpting ethereal soundscapes or exploring experimental forms, this device breathes new life into your compositions.

Recording: Ambient Drone (Sample Pack) https://akihikomatsumoto.sellfy.store..."

MultiWAVE Span Limits | Make Noise

video upload by MAKEN0ISE

"Changing up the Span input range on MultiWAVE while keeping it full range on PoliMATHS can open up some interesting possibilities!"

http://www.makenoisemusic.com

A Flutter in space | Eurorack Patch with Qu-Bit Stardust

video upload by Mars Machine

"My second patch with @QuBitElectronix Stardust! Plaits through Clouds is the main lead. Stardust is playing a loop recorded from 2hp Pluck, with delay from Mimeophon."

The “New Universal Synthesizer System” (Parts 1-4)

video upload by Rheyne

"Some patches with the ‪@MAKEN0ISEMUSIC‬ 'New Universal Synthesizer System' mixed with a ‪@strymon‬ Strymon SuperKar+ and Magneto, a Steady State Fate ZPO and Ultra Random Redux, and a ‪@1010music‬ Bixbox Micro. Tracks were sequenced in ‪@Ableton‬ Live, with a ​⁠‪@KORG_INC‬ SQ-64 acting as a MIDI-to-CV converter. An iPad is running MIDI Designer Pro, a control surface for Ableton. All effects, except for the Strymon Magneto delay module, are from Ableton Live 12."

Part 1 - 0:00
Part 2 - 2:39
Part 3 - 7:17
Part 4 - 11:19

MultiWAVE DRUMS | Make Noise

video upload by MAKEN0ISE

"This week we take a look at some existing visual scores for inspiration for the 12-String Iterative Music Project! Reels here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Send your visual score to walker@makenoisemusic.com by Dec 10!

Also, Pete makes a drum machine out of the New Universal Synthesizer System, and then Walker ReSynthesizes it!

0:00 Bones at the Station
0:44 Visual Scores
4:30 Bones in the Office
5:01 MultiWAVE Drum Machine!
8:04 Resynthesizin'

http://www.makenoisemusic.com"

“Cuckoo O’Clock” Buchla Morphagene CV/MIDI setup & INA GRM Tools Atelier

video upload by Stephano Gavilanes

"Third exploration of the Fake Noise - Morphagene using a hybrid CV/MIDI Buchla setup with the Magnetic Freak - Gaussian, Keen Association 220, and manipulating five of my very own samples with MIDI and Atelier 👌🏽

Hope you enjoy it! 🤙🏼

Music composed and recorded by Stephano Gavilanes.© Copyright 2025. All rights reserved."

Anabrid Analog Thing on the right.

Make Noise Almost ReSynthesizer // Diffusion Patch

video upload by Dexba

"[no talking, patch notes on screen]
I am building a ReSynthesizer, little by little, and I wanted to share with you my journey while the case is not yet full, but already showing a lot of potential for interesting patches.
This is how I envision a patch I would go live with: some key points ready to be messed with, but without the need for planned sequences, saved patches, and so on.
I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did playing it 🧡"

MultiWAVE Wavetable Showcase | Make Noise

video upload by MAKEN0ISE

"While the MultiWAVE technically uses wavetables, it is far from an arbitrary Dagwood sandwich of waveforms! The tables were generated from scratch by our engineers from a thorough analysis of module circuit characteristics, and we carefully tested and curated the selection over a period of many weeks to maximize the sonic signature of MultiWAVE. As such, rather than scanning through a cross section of all possible timbres, wavetable modulation on MultiWAVE is generally more like performing a timbre transform on any number of styles and designs of synthesizer. The tables are organized into categories so you know what to expect from each bank. Let’s check a few out.

The 12 String Iterative Project drive can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...

The 12 String Iterative Project playlist can be found here:"


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Analog FM Synthesis | Make Noise Shared System

video upload by Akihiko Matsumoto

"FM Bass Recordings Make Noise Modular Synth Sample Pack: https://akihikomatsumoto.sellfy.store...

Drum Loops: Breakbeat Anthology Sample Pack https://akihikomatsumoto.sellfy.store...

Sync: Ableton Clock https://akihikomatsumoto.sellfy.store...

Akihiko Matsumoto"

A Recipe For Chaotic Beauty | Modular Classroom | Episode 04

video upload by Cinematic Laboratory

"This series is a bit more advanced than usual, but this does not mean 'difficult', it means 'low level'. I will revisit Rob Hordijk's Benjolin and Blippoo Box again, not to recreate them, but to understand its components a bit more so they can be used elsewhere. We'll build a Twin Peak filter with Blades and Blinds (or any duo filter with a polarizer), a Comparator with Maths - which can make amazing new sounds using any two VCO's, I'll revisit the Rungler with Marbles and finally I've been looking for ways to detect equality between two voltages so we can generate a trigger or gate. I am not aware of any comparator that has an '=' output, but I figured out a way to approximate it with Maths.

I've been using ChatGPT as a research tool and it came up with the Twin Peak recipe after scrutinizing documentation on the web. But it also claimed that using Maths for equality detection would not work, because EOC is documented to be 'end of full cycle'. We already figured out in Episode 01 of this series, that EOC is always ON, and off when a RISE is in progress. This is needed to do quadrature functions, bla bla bla, but the point is that AI can be misinformed. Regardless, AI has reached a point where you can actually discuss patches and ChatGPT knows a LOT of modules, options, techniques and alternatives. So how do I know so much? I don't. It's co-creation.

Even though this episode features a lot of chaos, I tried to find the cool textures that make the Blippoo Box so entertaining, and figure out why the Benjolin is so untameable (may I say annoying?)

00:00 Introduction
00:51 Blippoo Box emulation for the Meng-Qi Wingie 2
05:02 Patching a Twin Peak filter with Blades and Blinds
08:03 Patching a Comparator with Maths
12:34 Patching a Rungler with Marbles and any VCO
14:43 Blippoo Box S&H and equality detection with Maths
18:45 Final Thoughs and a dual Benjolin / Marbles (multi-track) Jam."

“Chain Reaction” Brainwaves controlling a Buchla Morphagene CV/MIDI setup & INA GRM Tools Atelier 🧠✨

video upload by Stephano Gavilanes

"Biofeedback exploration using brainwaves via the BI1 Brainterface to control a hybrid CV/MIDI Buchla setup with the Fake Noise - Morphagene, Magnetic Freak - Gaussian, and five instances of INA GRM Tools 'Atelier' via MIDI👌🏽

Original sample sounds produced with an EMS VCS3, a Buchla 200 system, and later processed with Atelier. Timpani type percussion extracted from my track “Maestro” which was created by accident with only a 212 Dodecamodule and a Folktek Resonant Garden as a feedback patch, loaded into Morphagene.

Hope you enjoy it! 🤙🏼

Music composed and recorded by Stephano Gavilanes.© Copyright 2025. All rights reserved."

MultiWAVE Flying Solo! | Make Noise

video upload by MAKEN0ISE

"Reklaw opens a portal into the New Universe from the Old... but can't breach enough to use the entire system and is forced to just use MultiWAVE without the PoliMATHS and QXGs."

http://www.makenoisemusic.com/modules...

MAKE NOISE STREGA DESKTOP SYNTH & PROCESSOR

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Make Noise Introduces New MultiWAVE Eurorack Module & Universal Synthesizer System Videos

video uploads by MAKEN0ISE

MSRP: $529 Availability: Shipping November/December 2025. Check with dealers on the right and Reverb linked below.

Playlist:

1. Introducing MultiWAVE! | Make Noise
2. The Make Noise Multiwave System (Part 1)

Meet the New Make Noise MultiWAVE with Tony Rolando

video upload by Reverb

"Meet MultiWAVE, an 8-channel dual wavetable oscillator and the core of Make Noise’s New Universal Synthesizer System. Designed by Tony Rolando, it brings true polyphony to modular.

Each channel hosts two oscillators with independent modulation, spread, and detune controls, creating evolving tones that feel alive. Pair it with PoliMATHS and QXG for a full 8-voice modular polysynth, or use it solo as a powerhouse paraphonic oscillator.

Ships with custom Make Noise wavetables, supports WaveEdit, and features a built-in MultiMod LFO and polyphonic quantizer. See more on Reverb."

New Universal Synthesizer System Video Manual
video uploads by MAKEN0ISE



MultiWAVE Press release follows:

Make Noise is proud to announce: MultiWAVE!

MultiWAVE is an 8-channel dual wavetable oscillator for the New Universal Synthesizer System or any Eurorack modular synthesizer. It uses a single set of controls to generate audio waveforms at eight independent channel outputs.

Each of the eight MultiWAVE channels contains two independent wavetable oscillators, Osc A and Osc B, each loading its own wavetable with variable frequency, modulation and wavetable position.

MultiWAVE includes an output header for creating pre-patched connections to the audio signal inputs of two QXG modules. When grouped up with PoliMATHS it creates the 8-channel core of the New Universal Synthesizer System.

8-channel dual wavetable oscillator with a single set of controls

Sequence A and B oscillators (per channel) independently or together via 4 Follow modes

Generate polyphonic activations from monophonic sequences using Modulation Dissemination, Span modes, Spread, and Accumulate

Variable timbre per channel via Spread and Modulation Dissemination

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Make Noise Shared System | Ambient

video upload by Akihiko Matsumoto

"The Unpredictable Logic of Sound: Inside the Make Noise Sample Pack

Every patch on a Make Noise system is a small act of discovery. It does not begin with a plan, but with curiosity. The machine invites you to think in voltages, to listen to circuits as if they were alive. Out of that dialogue between control and chance, something unmistakably organic emerges.

Product link:
https://akihikomatsumoto.sellfy.store...

The Make Noise Modular Synth Sample Pack ver.7.5 was recorded entirely with the Shared System, Strega, and 0-Coast. Every waveform was shaped by hand, without presets, without automation. Each modulation, cross-feedback, and timing drift was allowed to evolve freely until it found its own balance.

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Make Noise PoliMATHS Overview (feat. Sarah Belle Reid)

video upload by Perfect Circuit and Sarah Belle Reid

"Make Noise PoliMATHS is a revolutionary new Eurorack module — an eight-channel function generator designed to create complex, evolving arrays of control voltages.

While it was designed to work as part of Make Noise's new NUSS ecosystem, it also brings a lot of possibilities to a non-NUSS Eurorack system. To help explain how it can play along with the rest of your modular synth, we reached out to our friend ‪@sarahbellereid‬ to see how she has been using it.

She covers the module's basic features, and then discusses a few interesting ways to approach it:
1:38 Module Overview
14:08 PoliMATHS as a Multi-CV Tool
17:00 PoliMATHS as a Polyphonic Synth
23:15 Double Gating with PoliMATHS
26:02 PoliMATHS as a Clock Divider

Learn modular synthesis with Sarah Belle Reid: https://www.soundandsynthesis.com/
Buy a PoliMATHS of your own: https://bit.ly/4otM5kX
Learn more about PoliMATHS on Perfect Circuit's blog, Signal: https://bit.ly/4qEcjm5

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Perfect Circuit is an independent electronic instrument shop with an online store at https://www.perfectcircuit.com/ and a Burbank, California showroom at 2405 Empire Ave. We're open seven days a week, 12-8 PM, and our entire inventory is available to try out in person. Get your hands on the most excellent analog and digital synthesizers, effect pedals, Eurorack modular synths, drum machines, recording gear, and more!

Learn about electronic music, techniques, and gear on our blog, Signal: https://www.perfectcircuit.com/signal"

Audrey II Horrorscape Synth + lx-euclid + Faselunare Vega + Mimeophon

video upload by Genshi Media Group

"::| TO HEAR THE FULL RANGE OF FREQUENCIES AND STEREO EFFECTS, A GOOD PAIR OF HEADPHONES IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED |::

I've been away from my studio for a bit, so thought I'd throw something together.... just quickie: the ‪@SynthuxAcademy‬ Audrey II Horrorscape synthesizer along with the ‪@ATOVproject‬ lx-euclid 4 channel Euclidean rhythm sequencer driving the ‪@faselunare‬ Vega 4 channel Drum module which is going into the @MakeNoiseMusic Mimeophon."