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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.
Yamaha’s Reface range recreates four of their classic instruments in miniature form.
With the affordable and innovative Beatstep Pro, Arturia may have created a sequencer for the masses.
This 21st-century emulation of the SID 8‑bit soundchip is accurate down to its three notes of polyphony and ability to export your songs for playback on an actual Commodore 64.
Ambient White is a Kontakt 5 instrument with a laid-back, meditational essence.
Acidlab haven’t just recreated the Roland TR606 — they’ve made it better.
The Electribe Sampler may well be Korg’s best Electribe yet...
Oracle is billed as a “modern sound design” library of large-scale elements to pump up your TV, film and game scores.
This month we look at the UVI BeatHawk and Roland Sound Canvas For iOS apps.
The Dreadbox Erebus is an unusual small–format synth with an inviting price tag.
As it reaches its second incarnation, we ask: is Spectrasonics’ Omnisphere the world’s best soft synth?