Two affordable digital pianos with really nice keyboards – one with graded hammer action I’ve been checking out a Williams...
An ACB model of the classic CR-78 CompuRhythm Drum Machine, and a TR-808 chromatic bass Heads up if you already have one of these instruments, and...
Everything terrible, horrible, no good about modular synthesis…and why I love it It’s hard to believe that it’s been over six months since I dove head...
Eurorack synths normally produce one sound at a time, not up to eight Did it occur to you that Eurorack synths have never (according to OXI...
A look at the latest world prices for classic instruments Prices for electronic instruments – particularly classic analog synths – seem to have gone crazy over...
The latest from Roland’s “guitar pedal” division Our guitar- and bass-playing friends also deserve to play synths, right? Here’s the company release. BOSS announces the new Serial...
It’s a library, and also an engine that features an X-Y pad to morph between four layers Please poke around the walkthrough video of Soundiron’s latest...
The 2023 take on Roland’s classic SH-101 fits in your jacket pocket and only costs $200 The Roland S-1 Tweak Synthesizer is the latest offering from...
Mark Jenkins gets his freak on – and his hands on this compact instrument Arturia’s new MiniFreak is more than an expanded version of the French...
It’s based on the Analog SH-101 from 1982, a staple of ’90s house music Wikipedia tells us that the SH-101 didn’t sell like hotcakes at first...
Larger versions have been praised for their sounds, but does this one go where no synth has gone before (other than a desktop or connected to...
Features, functions, firmware, it’s free We stopped by the ASM Hydrasynth exhibit at Synthplex last October and were impressed. If you already have one of these...
You can also upgrade 8-voice synths Not only is there going to be a new Fawlty Towers series, Waldorf Music has… well, you clicked on the...
The chronicles of a new Eurorack setup The very first challenge when building a Eurorack modular set up is choosing a case. After all a Eurorack...
The chronicles of a new Eurorack setup Sometime around the early 2000s I decided that I was done with hardware. Virtual instruments were all the rage,...
