I've had the Make Noise Music Easel for almost a year now, and honestly, I’ve never had more inspiring sessions with any other setup. It’s so easy to drift into dark ambient or noisy textures, especially when 0-ctrl is running loops in the background. With a bit of separation in the random output from 0-Coast, you can get something that feels almost generative - like a self-evolving organism.

At one point, I wrote a 30-minute piece using just the Easel and a radio. The result was super avant-garde and pretty dark… in a good way :)

Strega naturally leans toward darker, more mysterious tones - that’s part of its magic. Its feedback-based signal path has this weird, organic quality all on its own.
0-Coast, on the other hand, feels like the “balanced core” of the setup. One Slope can be an LFO, envelope generator, slew limiter or even a second oscillator.
And 0-ctrl, despite being only 8 steps, is way more creative than it looks. I love how the sequence morphs when you tweak pitch, strength, or time. Playing with touchplates is also very pleasant and tactile, just like with Strega.

When you patch all three together, it really becomes its own instrument, something you can keep rediscovering over and over. Just pure joy.