You can learn a lot from Surgeon’s live rigs

Our friends at Resident Advisor took a peek at the techno legend’s battle-tested live rigs. And it’s not so much about gear – it says a lot about musical technique.

Faderfox EC4 gives you the encoders your hardware, software are missing

Boutique German maker Faderfox has long been a go-to for controllers. The latest compact box looks like the encoder box to end all encoder boxes.

Peter Kirn - November 6, 2019

Review: 1010 Blackbox, sampling workstation hardware in a little square

This cute little box promises to let you manipulate sound and play live with samples without a computer. Andreas Roman returns to CDM with another in-depth, hands-on hardware review.

Andreas Roman - September 23, 2019

Roland’s Boutique JU-06A JUNO is insanely fun [Review]

Peter Kirn - September 5, 2019

Romance and underground, the world of SOMA Laboratory’s machines

Peter Kirn - July 31, 2019

Delaydelus 2 is a patchable sampler/delay from Daedelus, Dr. Bleep

Peter Kirn - June 21, 2019

Datalooper lets you play Ableton Live with your feet

Peter Kirn - November 15, 2018

DU-NTSC is a modular visualizer, AV toy, and video generator

Peter Kirn - August 14, 2018

Take a tour of the dreamy ACL modular synthesizer system

Peter Kirn - July 26, 2018

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