Roland P-6 pocket sampler with FX, granular engine: here’s what to know

Roland’s latest handheld boutique synth is a departure. Instead of a synth or drum machine, it was inspired by the SP-404. Here’s the skinny on its onboard sampling, effect, and sequencer features, direct from the source.

Portable recorder/looper on its side with a rainbow background behind it. White with knobs and wooden buttons, a large speaker grill, and a gooseneck mic protruding perpendicular to the front panel.

Critter and Guitari Kaleidoloop, portable looper, is back with new features

Kaleidoloop, an adorable portable looper/recorder, is back with a compact form factor plus a software update that delivers new modes, layering, and more. It’s now also a unique playback/effect that you can customize yourself with Pd.

Peter Kirn - March 6, 2024

Yamaha’s SEQTRAK looks like a return to fun mobile music designs

It’s an FM/sample-based synth, sampler, drum machine, and connected music maker. And most noticeably, it sees Yamaha return to the kinds of fun design we associate with 80s Yamaha and Casio.

Peter Kirn - January 16, 2024

Teenage Engineering’s EP-133 K.O. II: sampler-sequencer, $299

Peter Kirn - November 22, 2023

Roland’s AIRA Compact: bite-sized versions of TR drum machine, JUNO-60 synth, vocal FX

Peter Kirn - May 10, 2022

Tiny Poly: Roland is making Boutique versions of JD-800, JX-8P

Peter Kirn - November 9, 2021

Error Instruments’ Loopman is an experimental cassette Walkman instrument

Peter Kirn - August 24, 2021

One artist is making insane, impossible, hilarious KORG volca mock-ups

Peter Kirn - June 15, 2021

Novation’s Circuit Rhythm is coming in summer; here’s what we know

Peter Kirn - February 9, 2021

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