Modulaire Maritime Phosgène is a super compact 2HP wavetable FM oscillator for Eurorack, designed for industrial digital tones.
The last day of NAMM 2026 begins today. Simultaneously, the Buchla and Friends event starts in LA. For Synthesizer enthusiasts, the latter is certainly the better choice.
The French developer Modulare Maritime, which presented an exciting digital oscillator, is not at either NAMM or the Buchla event.
Modulaire Maritime Phosgène
Phosègne from Modulaire Maritime is a new, super-compact 2HP Eurorack oscillator that combines wavetable and FM synthesis.
It features 60 wavetables, organized into 2 banks of 30, with waveshaping and FM in parallel, both available via separate outputs. This is neat because it gives you two distinct sound directions you can route individually out of the module.
FM was implemented somewhat differently here to achieve different sounds. It uses a 100 Hz frequency base, resulting in a more sober spectrum ideal for tight FM basses and dark modulations.
Due to the very compact 2HP format, the available parameters are somewhat limited, as is the I/O. You have a 1v/oct input at the top that tracks through 8 octaves. Just below are the octave switch (one step/octave up & down) and coarse parameters.
It also has an ctave displace’ function switch, allowing to place all octaves further down in the octave scale (only in the wavetable). Then, you have a feedback/modulation CV input for the wavetable/FM engine and a CV input for the wave selection.
The two share the same minimal controls, and the only difference is that when you engage the Oct Diff switch, it transposes only the wavetable engine.
This is useful when you begin to explore more aggressive wavetable sounds, and the high frequencies start to feel a bit unruly.
The module will save your last settings (Bank, wave, octave), so you’ll find them after rebooting your system.
Modulaire Maritime promises that the module sounds like industrial poison and that you can get digital trashy sounds out of if you want with the onboard 11-bit wavetables.
First Impression
From the spec sheets alone, the Phosgène looks like an exciting space-saving digital oscillator with a lot of character. It’s a shame there’s no sound demo available.
Modulaire Maritime Phosgène is available now for $219/165€.
More information here: Modulaire Maritime
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