“Music production feels pointless now,” says Tim — but years after walking away from DAWs, he’s embraced instrument building. New Modular System is a patchable environment, constructed in Reaktor, that’s truly Exile-ish in philosophy. It’s not about a bunch of wire connections. You drop in colored modules and get straight to tweaking, generating, and playing — with wild, massively diverse results. New Modular System isn’t technically finished yet, but it’s already very usable once you get used to its approach. It almost feels like “what if KORG Gadget went super leftfield or did dub techno” or, okay, “what if it was designed by Tim in Reaktor?” So you get dubby dancey bits, wonky evolving ambient bits, you drop them in, and you immediately get sound. It’s not a preset machine, either — indeed, it does drop you directly into the Reaktor Edit view.…