Mark Jenkins traces the history of pocket-size sound makers 180-pound six foot weighted keyboard controllers are still a going concern, but there’s also a trend toward...
It’s a sample library of Chas Smith’s unique metal instruments, as used in many film scores If you aren’t impressed by the audio demos – and...
We know lots of electronic instruments built in China, but who knows much about Chinese artists? Mark Jenkins spoke to one with some highly unusual performance...
Every synth is unique, but here are Mark Jenkins’ (and our) favorite general tips to make creating sounds easy and fun Early synthesists were often asked...
A different way of approaching your digital audio sequencing software and its plug-in processors There’s an interesting feature in the forthcoming CLAP open plug-in format: polyphonic...
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...
Put it together yourself (no soldering), use it stand-alone or in a Eurorack Moog Music Mavis is aimed at beginners but not only beginners. If you...
It’s stand-alone for a desktop, of put it in a Eurorack Cre8 Audio has released a flurry of affordable Eurorack products recently. First came the East...
A further blow to the electronic music community has come with the death aged 79 of Vangelis from COVID-related complications [Editor’s note: I posted some brief...
Put this in your Eurorack: a reverb that separates the time and frequency (for interesting effects) The following extended prose (their press release) is all well...
It contains 9 (!) patchable modules in its included case, or you can take it out and put it in a Eurorack case Cre8Audio is exploding...
5 foot switches, 5 inputs for external expression pedals, one 8 HP module Here’s the release, cut and paste: The new ADDAC311 Ultra Floor Control features...
It’s part of their DIY series of educational and affordable Eurorack modules Erica Synths used to be the finest little synth company you never heard of,...
Mark Jenkins scopes out these mad scientist favorites, now synth studio must-haves You’ve seen them in countless sci-fi movies, you’ve puzzled over them in your local...
Charlie Clouser’s signature go-to percussion library is both gnarly and sensitive. Nick Batzdorf’s review is neither. From the name and “cover” images, you’d expect Spitfire Audio’s...