Electronic music can occasionally sound a little too pristine and digital, and some of the best electronic musicians stand out for the way they dirty their productions up to give them an organic edge. To aid with that quest, Latvia’s Erica Synths is launching a new eurorack synth module called the Plasma Drive — whose job it is to add distortion to your music via the novel approach of turning it into lightning.
Devised by the mad scientists at another Latvian company, Gamechanger Audio, this approach works by boosting your audio signal up to 3,000V and transforming it into a series of high-voltage discharges in a xenon-filled tube. That makes for a stunning show of literal lightning in a bottle and, after applying some user-adjustable...
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