Sequencers / Grooveboxes

Always unconventional, Teenage Engineering's latest instrument is a battery-powered multimedia studio that will fit in your pocket.

Polyend's Seq offers straightforward step sequencing and buttons galore in one very attractive package.

Akai Pro have distilled the best of their technologies into a stand-alone clip- and scene-based performance and production workstation.

Robaux are a relatively new German company making Eurorack modules. Their latest is the SWT16+, a 16‑track trigger sequencer...

The Medusa combines analogue and digital, synthesizer and sequencer — and even throws in a controller for good measure.

At a glance the AS Generator looks like a conventional step sequencer, but there's much more to it than that...

The Erica Synths Drum Sequencer is a drum brain optimised for live performance with plenty of capacity for all your favourite patterns...

Elektron’s latest compact groove station takes a welcome new look at FM.

By allowing for complex arrangements and the use of audio, MIDI hardware and software plug-ins and instruments, ZenAudio’s unique software platform breaks the boundaries of loop performance.

Thanks to Korg, it’s once again possible to walk into a shop and buy a brand-new, full-size ARP Odyssey.

After almost a decade in the wilderness, the original loop-based sequencer is back. But is Acid still the best?

The Lifeforms Micro Sequence is a compact eight-step sequencer with more functionality than its minimalist design suggests...

Laid out in Vermona’s usual spacious style, Random Rhythm is a dual-channel trigger sequencer optimised for hands-on, four-on-the-floor beat creation.

This suite of six MIDI sequencer tools run as AU-only plug-ins within a suitable AU-host. Rozeta also makes use of one of the new features Apple has snuck rather quietly into the iOS 11 update: the ability for AU plug-ins to send MIDI Out data.

Could the MPCX make you rethink your whole approach to studio and live music production?

Elektron’s new sampling drum machine is much more than just a cut-price Octatrack.

Could a mash-up of Novation’s Circuit and Bass Station II with a pinch of modular connectivity be the perfect recipe for the modern monosynth?

Squarp’s Pyramid is a versatile 64-track sequencer with a penchant for polyrhythms.

We conclude our review of PG Music’s unique music auto-generation package by exploring some of the more advanced ways you can shape its output.

Slicing audio samples based upon transient detection is a well-established technology, however, VirSyn have added two very interesting further twists that up the ante considerably in creative terms...

With thousands of styles, songs and sounds on tap, Band In A Box 2017 can supply everything from inspiration to finished tracks.