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In a world of reissues and recreations, the Hypersynth Xenophone is resolutely doing its own thing.
Designed in collaboration with SpaceHardware, the Quadnic packs four digital oscillators into an impressively compact 12hp...
Mutable Instruments’ Rings introduces the idea of virtual strings to generate its own flavour of polyphony.
I Wish is a granular synthesis plug-in that uses incoming MIDI notes to play very short loops of audio.
Dronar is a Kontakt instrument that translates the everyday into the epic. When fed with a simple triad chord, it cunningly fills out the middle range, provides a building-shaking bass and inserts highs to rival the most discreet online pharmacy.
Eclipse is a Kontakt instrument with a lot of similarities to Orbit, Wide Blue Sound’s previous opus. The installation...
When it comes to FM synthesis, Korg’s little Volca is thinking big.
Known for their idiosyncratic approach, Teenage Engineering’s latest product is pocket friendly in every sense.
We explore Borderlands Granular Synthesizer App for iOS, Shure MV51 iOS/USB condenser mic, and Native Instruments iMaschine 2 sequencer.
The Koma Elektronik Komplex combines four step sequencers in one box, yet still manages to be greater than the sum of its parts.
This updated inexpensive ‘groove sketchpad’ takes the idea a few steps further, letting you create scenes: an arrangement of patterns in each of the four groups.
Alexandernaut’s Fugue Machine arose from its creator’s interest in the music of Baroque composer JS Bach. It is a multi-phasic sequencer, offering up to four playheads capable of independent motion across the same musical landscape.
SynthMaster might seem like an ambitious name, but then SynthMaster is an ambitious synth...
The Modor NF-1 has a front panel festooned with knobs, but at the same time it’s unashamedly digital.
Roland have embraced the Eurorack format with their semi–modular System 1m and four Aira effects modules.
With a large, well–equipped control panel and a gratuitously laden effects rack, the JDXA could be Roland’s most ambitious, hands–on synthesizer in many years.
Orbit is a Kontakt 5 instrument designed to be a source of evolving or pulsing textures. Unusually, you access it via...
Fuse is a Kontakt instrument that serves as a music ‘workstation’, but with a distinctly urban slant.
This month: Noise Co Patterning drum machine app and the Korg iM1 synth app, both for iPad.