Austrian synth connoisseurs Mayer have unveiled the MD900 X-VA at Superbooth 21, their new flagship multi-timbral wavetable synthesizer with hands-on control, drum instruments and many other features. The MD900x-VA is a multitimbral virtual analog and wavetable synthesizer with 16 voices and 4 parts. The 16
Latvian synth company Erica Synths has just revealed their newest creation at Superbooth 2021–the PĒRKONS (THUNDER) – a drum machine and synthesizer and according to their press release, “it will change your approach to electronic rhythm synthesis – an instrument which bears the weight of
Arturia added the KeyStep Pro to the ‘Step’ range of controllers back in 2019 at the NAMM show, and since then it has made its way into many producer’s home studios (mine included). It currently stands as Arturia’s flagship hardware controller as it gives you
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
