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Review: can Elektron’s Model:Samples get everyone into hardware?
At about $400 street, with tons of hands-on control and simple samples, the Elektron Model:Samples has more in common with classic Japanese grooveboxes than the company’s flagships. So what’s it like...
View ArticleElektron’s Model:Samples just got more useful: change samples per step
Elektron’s Model:Samples was always appealing – some of the best bits of an Elektron groovebox, but with a smaller size and price tag. But one limitation might hold you back: six tracks, and only six...
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IK UNO Drum: portable, $249.99 analog-PCM drum machine
Like the UNO synth before it, IK Multimedia’s new drum machine is a collaboration with boutique Italian maker Soundmachines, runs on batteries, takes up very little space, and it looks like a whole lot...
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Elektron turns Digitone into a polysynth keyboard
Elektron have taken one of their more inspiring recent products and added a keyboard. The result – an 8-voice polyphonic keyboard for 1320EUR, and a bunch of new playing features. So yes, Elektron...
View ArticleHappy 02 02 2020 202 day – celebrate with some 202 music!
808 day? 909 day? No, 202 on 0202 2020 comes but once, for real hardcore numerology fans in music – and TM404 is on it. There’s enough 202-ness here to start your own number cult. And sure, Roland may...
View ArticleA bass and drum machine, inside your KORG hardware, with Sinevibes’ Groove...
What if I told you you could take a KORG keyboard - or even the ultra-cheap NTS-1 - and add a bass and drum machine, just by downloading a file? Sinevibes' Artemiy Pavlov has been raving about the...
View ArticleNovation Circuit Rhythm is here – and it’s the one that actually samples;...
If you were waiting for a Novation Circuit that can record samples right onto the hardware, this is the one - with a full eight sample tracks to play and packed with features. The post Novation Circuit...
View ArticleErica Synths – Sonic Potions LXR-02 drum machine review: deep dive
LXR-02 is what the world needs now: a drum machine with its own personality and soul. It slaps harder, plays easier, and does grunge, glitch, grime, and digital mayhem unlike anything else. The post...
View ArticleInside the Reese’s Puffs cereal beatboxes – and yeah, they made real instruments
It must be the future because your cereal box is also an augmented-reality drum machine or synth. We talked to the creative team about the project, plus the full-featured "pro" models. The post Inside...
View ArticleElektron’s Song Mode is already making ambient music to chill out to; OS...
Elektron's Song Mode for Digitakt, Syntakt, and Digitone chains together patterns beyond the 64-step limit - and there's some beautiful ambient music from a Syntakt owner to prove it. That's not all in...
View ArticleNovation Circuit Tracks update follows Circuit Rhythm – here’s what to know
Okay, this is not a drill - time to hit the studio, load up all those firmware updates, hit the books, hone the chops, work on the tracks, finish the tracks and new jams. Invite friends (uh, once the...
View ArticleSample machines in Elektron Digitakt 1.50: Repitch, Werp, Slice, Oneshot
Elektron has a major update for Digitakt in 1.50 -- now with Machines, as Octatrack, Model:Cycles, and Syntakt. Those bring sample warping, slicing, chopping, looping, repitching, and forward/reverse...
View ArticleRoland SP-404MKII v3.0 firmware drops – here’s why we’re excited about it
Roland just released the 3.0 software update for its SP-404MKII sampler/sequencer/effects unit, and we’re psyched to share some of the features with you (and try them out ourselves!) Quick overview:...
View ArticleNew MPC One+ standalone: wireless and more storage, $699 – and runs AIR’s new...
The MPC One Plus now adds WiFi and Bluetooth, 16 GB of storage, and brings this entry-level standalone up to the CPU specs of Akai's other boxes. And it runs the just-announced Juno-60-inspired plugin...
View ArticleMC-101/707 Zen-Core get the comprehensive editor Roland forgot
Devotees of the new Roland MC boxes said it all along: these boxes are deep -- if you're willing to dive in. Developer Benedetto Schiavone has done what Roland didn't and created a comprehensive editor...
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