Let’s see how many people I can trigger with this opening sentence: Arturia’s KeyStep Pro is the best hardware synth sequencer in the history of the world— change my mind. To be honest, I’m not here to rile up anyone; rather, I’m here to provide
While exploring what the Korg SQ-64 can offer to synth heads who indulge in the Eurorack modular side of synthesis, I stumbled on an exciting use for the Korg’s unusual Arp function that’s perfect for use alongside faux-polyphonic modules like the 2hp Modular Pluck and
This week we’ve seen successors announced to two enormously popular Eurorack modules, the Mutable Instruments Clouds and Intellijel Metropolis, being reborn as Beads and Metropolix respectively. Both released in 2014, Clouds and Metropolis have both been key modules in the modular explosion we’ve seen in
Got synths? Need sequencing? That’s what I thought, keep reading because we had a little sit down with Korg’s new SQ64 polyphonic hardware sequencer. This little mini machine is built like a tank and offers everything you need for sequencing all your hardware (or software)
Singers and MCs this might just be the product you never knew you needed, or maybe you did? Roland have announced Verselab MV-1, an all-in-one groovebox/workstation featuring Roland’s ZEN-Core synth engine, vocal recording and song arrangement with TR style step sequencer for beat making. This follows a string of new grooveboxes from Roland over the past 18 months, but the
With the announcement of the Korg’s opsix FM synthesiser came the inevitable question from synth nuts all over the internet, how does it stack up against the Elektron Digitone? The Digitone is arguably the most successful FM synth of recent times, so it’s a very
You might have seen leaked images of this recently, but today Korg have made it official and it’s got us very excited. The SQ-64 is an exciting new polyphonic hardware sequencer with a (yep, you guessed it) 64 step pad matrix, designed to give hardware
Korg have announced ‘Nautilus’ a new entry into their highly regarded range of workstation keyboards inheriting much of what users love about their flagship KRONOS including all nine sound engines, delivered in a more affordable, streamlined package. Nautilus features a bold new design and is
The Arturia KeyStep is a popular controller keyboard with the analogue and modular synth crowd thanks to its CV outputs — that crowd is currently salivating over the new KeyStep Pro that’s just been released (more on that to come). But even though it’s a
Aussie Eurorack module designers, Serpens Modular, have today announced their brand new Ara module is now shipping. The module is a multi-function utility that expands on the standard sequential switch idea, adding gates, 5 voltage sources and a clock divider. Serpens also do some of