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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.
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?
Akai iMPC Pro iOS sampling workstation and the Klevgrand Enkl Synth App.
Roland’s JDXi crams an awful lot of synth into a very small box.
Serum’s slick interface belies an extremely flexible wavetable synthesizer.
Loaded with more of everything, iMPC Pro offers 64 tracks, a built-in piano roll editor, superior effects implementation and a choice of friendly sample-fixing tools.
The Faderfox SC4 combines a capable MIDI controller with a step sequencer in one compact box.
Akai’s MPX16 has more pads and functions than its MPX8 predecessor, but remains just as reasonably priced.
The Korg MS20 rides again... again! The latest version takes the form of an expanded desktop module with accompanying sequencer.
The Theremini’s pitch-quantisation and price tag make it the most accessible Theremin instrument yet.
Flux FX is an ambitious iOS effect processor created by guitar legend Adrian Belew and developers. It provides a chain of up to five versatile effects, each with an X-Y pad for performance access, plus a step sequencer for capturing pad motion.
Sixteen years after the first one was released, Korg have completely revised and redesigned the Electribe.
Akai break from tradition with their new all–analogue lupine groove–maker.