"I picked up this beauty a couple years ago thinking I'd be the next Industrial Noise Super Star, but turns out Blush Response has the job covered. I installed antelope's 30 voice upgrade module and also replaced the old LED with another I got from the Isle of Mann on eBay that looks wonderful! (It's not OLED, but something else). Sounds great, knobs are faded, but everything seems to be working great. A fabric dust cover has been on it since owning and. There is a third party power supply included that wouldn't be my first choice, but it works just fine. It's a 30 year old synth and has some road scars, and one of the rack ears is a bit bent. The Nextel paint will still abrade your skin if you get too drunk and fall face first onto it. You want minty? This ain't it."
"Multitracked demo of Kawai K5000R. Additional reverb Eventide Space and delay has been used. These are factory patches tweaked with Macro controller. Controller looks pretty bad, but is fully working. Synth is missing power button cap, screen is worn and diskdrive won't work (should have usb-reader somewhere). I have owned K5000R without controller but also K5000S and K5000W. Later ones has pretty good keyboards in my opinions...
"Field recordings of a cicada-filled park, Nord Lead, and Rhodes
A piece built from park ambience where cicadas sing—heard against the memory of a summer so hot that, these days, even the cicadas in Tokyo seldom call.
This year in Tokyo the heat has been relentless, and opportunities to hear cicadas have become scarce.
Harmony and melodies are performed on the @NordKeyboards Nord Lead and Rhodes.
The field recordings are re-recorded into the @teenageengineering OP-1 field and transformed using its onboard filter and an @KORG_INC NTS-1 for additional processing."
"Examples of front panel designs I created for my custom 66 space modular system using frontpanelexpress.com CAD software. I was very satisfied with the quality and service from Front Panel Express. The music in the video is from the modular system using the pair of Mini Wave modules for various effects."
You might remember the stand alone version of OVUM from previous posts here. OVUM has now been ported to eurorack.
Press release follows:
Introducing OVUM for Eurorack - analog oscillator bank
August 6, 2025 - Crows Electromusic, a small synth company fromVancouver, Canada, is thrilled to introduce OVUM for Eurorack, a modular adaptation of our standalone synth OVUM. OVUM for Eurorack is a powerful, all-analog, drone and modulation source designed for exploratory sound synthesis, ambient, drone, and noise music. With five individually controllable and individually routable triangle-core oscillators, OVUM for Eurorack gives you a bank of raw material ready for use in your modular system - as droning dissonance, thick chords, or slow swelling modulation signals.
Features:
• 100% analog circuitry • Five triangle-core oscillators • Crossfade between triangle and square waves • Switch each oscillator to audio-rate or LFO rate • 4 individual outputs, normalled to 1 main output • One-control-per-function interface • 20hp, 3U eurorack standard • Handmade in Canada
OVUM for Eurorack is our third release, and our first Eurorack module.
It builds on what we’ve learned making standalone products; the palm-sized FM drone box Lore, and the original OVUM. The main challenge of adapting a standalone synth to modular is: how does this fit into a modular context? Five more oscillators is always useful, but with OVUM for Eurorack we’ve built something that can be more than that - an instrument with space available to interact with, either as the voice of your composition, or as the control center for your modulations. We hope OVUM for eurorack will be the place your hands go first when you’re performing a patch.
While it’s designed with ambient, experimental, noise and drone music in mind - we think OVUM for Eurorack is going to be at home in virtually any type of modular system.
OVUM for Eurorack is available now for $150 USD / $200 CAD.
Crows Electromusic is a small synth company based in Vancouver, Canada. Started by Cory Alder in 2023. Crows’ goal is to develop new hardware instruments that challenge the established ways we interact with sound and music creation. Their first product, OVUM, was released in 2023, and their second product, Lore, was released in early 2025.
For more information, please visit Crows’ website at https://crowselectromusic.com/ or follow us on social media (Instagram, Bluesky) at @crowselectromusic.
