iPhone Gets New Groove Boxes: Is it Live Synthesis, or is it Canned?
The iPhone has become an almost absurdly-popular platform for music apps this year, even given more capable, more plentiful PCs. But to those who don’t yet “get” the appeal, talk to a mobile music...
View ArticleiPhone Day: Free Frameworks Make Thumping Apps, Mobile or Otherwise
Part of the beauty of the iPhone from its launch date was the notion of a Mac you could fit in the palm of your hand. That makes it ironic that, for so many developers, mobile platforms in general...
View ArticleComputer, Meet Groovebox: A VST Editor for Korg Electribe
Hardware workflows can be musically productive and rock-solid reliable. But why choose between hardware and software? Combine them. DirectEMX is a VST Editor for a Korg Electribe MX. Now, why would...
View Article$150 Korg Volca Analog Synth, Bass, Drum Grooveboxes, with MIDI: Official...
Beats, Bass, Keys – a drum machine, a bass synth, and a lead synth, analog and $150 each. Now with MIDI. All images courtesy KORG; click for biggie versions. The rumors are true: Korg has not one, but...
View ArticleRD4, Groovebox for Android, the Studio to Beat; Q+A on Audio Performance
Choices may be scarce on Android, but there’s a unique amount of passion behind this platform. Choose a high-quality app and the right device, and you can get low-latency audio and even cool features...
View ArticleComputer, Meet Groovebox: A VST Editor for Korg Electribe
Hardware workflows can be musically productive and rock-solid reliable. But why choose between hardware and software? Combine them. DirectEMX is a VST Editor for a Korg Electribe MX. Now, why would...
View ArticleFinally, Your Pocket Gets a Perfect Drum Synth: Elastic Drums for iPhone
Some people are addicted to flinging birds at stacks of things until those stacks fall over. Or they use spare moments to flick through thumbnails of single people who they’ll never meet. Or they read...
View ArticleiPhone Gets New Groove Boxes: Is it Live Synthesis, or is it Canned?
The iPhone has become an almost absurdly-popular platform for music apps this year, even given more capable, more plentiful PCs. But to those who don’t yet “get” the appeal, talk to a mobile music...
View ArticleiPhone Day: Free Frameworks Make Thumping Apps, Mobile or Otherwise
Part of the beauty of the iPhone from its launch date was the notion of a Mac you could fit in the palm of your hand. That makes it ironic that, for so many developers, mobile platforms in general...
View Article$150 Korg Volca Analog Synth, Bass, Drum Grooveboxes, with MIDI: Official...
Beats, Bass, Keys – a drum machine, a bass synth, and a lead synth, analog and $150 each. Now with MIDI. All images courtesy KORG; click for biggie versions. The rumors are true: Korg has not one, but...
View ArticleRD4, Groovebox for Android, the Studio to Beat; Q+A on Audio Performance
Choices may be scarce on Android, but there’s a unique amount of passion behind this platform. Choose a high-quality app and the right device, and you can get low-latency audio and even cool features...
View ArticleFinally, Your Pocket Gets a Perfect Drum Synth: Elastic Drums for iPhone
Some people are addicted to flinging birds at stacks of things until those stacks fall over. Or they use spare moments to flick through thumbnails of single people who they’ll never meet. Or they read...
View ArticleZoom’s weird frisbee groove machine looks fun in this Japanese video
The ZOOM ARQ AR-96 can be filed confidently under “wha?” in the annals of music tech. It’s a round, all-in-one groovebox with drum machine, loads of patterns and sounds, and synths. Oh yeah, and...
View ArticleGet hands on with the hot new Elektron Digitakt
What do you need your boxes to do? For a lot of people, that’s making grooves, producing nice-sounding drums, manipulating samples, and playing sequencing – and then mucking about with them and...
View Article$150 Korg Volca Analog Synth, Bass, Drum Grooveboxes, with MIDI: Official...
Beats, Bass, Keys – a drum machine, a bass synth, and a lead synth, analog and $150 each. Now with MIDI. All images courtesy KORG; click for biggie versions. The rumors are true: Korg has not one, but...
View ArticleRD4, Groovebox for Android, the Studio to Beat; Q+A on Audio Performance
Choices may be scarce on Android, but there’s a unique amount of passion behind this platform. Choose a high-quality app and the right device, and you can get low-latency audio and even cool features...
View ArticleFinally, Your Pocket Gets a Perfect Drum Synth: Elastic Drums for iPhone
Some people are addicted to flinging birds at stacks of things until those stacks fall over. Or they use spare moments to flick through thumbnails of single people who they’ll never meet. Or they read...
View ArticleZoom’s weird frisbee groove machine looks fun in this Japanese video
The ZOOM ARQ AR-96 can be filed confidently under “wha?” in the annals of music tech. It’s a round, all-in-one groovebox with drum machine, loads of patterns and sounds, and synths. Oh yeah, and...
View ArticleGet hands on with the hot new Elektron Digitakt
What do you need your boxes to do? For a lot of people, that’s making grooves, producing nice-sounding drums, manipulating samples, and playing sequencing – and then mucking about with them and...
View ArticleElektron’s Model:Samples is a hands-on, $449 sound box
What if you could take the deep powers of an Elektron groove box, but bring them to the surface? And what if that box were small and cheap? That’s the first impression of the Model:Samples – and it...
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