SOUND ON SOUND
French synth experts Arturia get their groove on with a hybrid software/hardware drum machine. Zut alors!
Put down your bells, books and candles — this a ghost you do want in your machine...
Korg’s analogue renaissance continues with the Monotribe groovebox. If last year’s Monotron knocked your socks off, this should leave you completely trouserless...
This is a synth like no other, eschewing conventional controls, nomenclature and even an ordinary on/off switch. Is it destined to become a cult classic?
Spectrasonics bring yet more goodies to the Omnisphere party, aiming to make their highly acclaimed synth even better.
M-Audio's debut synth may have a pristine white exterior, but it hides a sample-based synthesis engine capable of getting down and dirty...
The Ultranova may be a return to Novation's roots, but it's still a very forward-looking synthesizer...
The Biscuit is as crunchy an 8-bit processor as anyone could wish for, but there's much more to it than that...
Everybody, as Fatboy Slim so wisely notes, needs a 303. However, with originals becoming ever more scarce and expensive, the dream of universal 303 ownership was starting to look unlikely — until now...
The peculiarly named Mono Lancet is an analogue synth of the old school, boasting two oscillators, a filter with a debilitating debt to Moog, and knobs galore!