Mark Jenkins gets his freak on – and his hands on this compact instrument Arturia’s new MiniFreak is more than...
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,...
It generates chords and progressions, then strums, arpeggiates, and sequences them But there’s more to it than that. We’ll let Knobula explain: Chord Pilot combines a...
A conversation with Kays Al-Atrakchi, with some great quotable lines Michael Boomer has been repairing vintage synths at his Los Angeles-based LA Synth Co. for the...
61-key polyphonic aftertouch tops the list of new features on their flagship instrument And here’s the company release: When we introduced the Quantum in 2018 it...
A morphing grand piano, a new audio/MIDI interface, a 4×4 performance controller, and a hybrid algorithmic polysynth Watch out below. Arturia just dropped: the Augmented Grand...
If everything is ultimately a bunch of sine waves, this “diverse waveshaping” synth is a new take on everything It seems like Cherry Audio releases synths...
88-key and 76-key instruments with credible piano, instrument, and synth sounds, intended for real keyboard players Check out the videos. These instruments are intended for pianists/keyboard...
Three powerful voices, one 20HP module With continued deep respect for the length of this opening sentence, we present the official press release for Modbap Modular’s...
Mark Jenkins with a blast-from-the-past keyboard that looks very much to the future A few months back, just before the new Oberheim synth appeared, we featured a retrospective...