Sequencers / Grooveboxes

Polyend’s Play gets a major + upgrade.

Fatboy Slim’s dream of universal 303 ownership inches a little closer with this cut‑price acid box.

Teenage Engineering’s portable workstation offers retro styling and an equally old‑school approach to sampling.

Polyend’s hardware tracker has got smaller — and at the same time bigger...

Sonicware’s SmplTrek packs an ambitious sampler, sequencer and recorder into a single portable box.

Disrupter is an experimental, performance‑driven, 303‑style sequencer with innovative randomisation features that you can still control when needed.

Roland’s SH‑4d is an ambitious amalgam of synth and sequencer in a battery‑powered box.

Polyend’s Play takes a unique, and very hands‑on, approach to sequencing samples.

Strokes brings unconventional Eurorack‑style sequencing to your DAW.

A melodic interval-based sequencer from Eventide with a unique set of features.

Sonicware’s Bass & Beats has a lot to offer, but you’ll have to work hard to get it.

This year marks the 30th birthday of one of the world’s leading manufacturers of synths, samplers and hardware controllers. In this podcast, Novation Product Specialist Chris Calcutt looks back over three decades of innovation.

Wave Alchemy’s TRIAZ could be all the percussion software you’ll ever need.

There are a multitude of excellent Eurorack sequencers available in all shapes and sizes. Principally they all fulfil a...

The MPC Key isn’t just an MPC with a keyboard, it’s a completely new species of workstation.

Warning: alter.audio’s Timetosser can interfere with the fabric of time and is dangerously addictive.

Sonicware promise no menu‑diving in their creative take on FM synthesis.

The MPC Studio provides an affordable middle ground between Akai’s software and hardware MPCs.

Polyend breathe new life into an old technology with an instrument that’s as forward‑looking as it is retro.

Novation’s Circuit Tracks is a portable musical playground.

Erica’s Black Sequencer combines ambitious functionality with some of the best knobs money can buy.