The new Maschine Mikro is tiny – but now its workflows scale

Native Instruments this fall unveiled a bunch of low cost alternatives to its flagship producer products – and the one that perhaps attracted the most attention is Maschine Mikro. Can you fit more into a small package?

Watch how Arturia’s BeatStep Pro sequences all your gear – mega meta roundup

Do call it a comeback. The hardware sequencer, once a forgotten relic of the computer age, has returned with a vengeance. And the reason is simple: we need it. Sure, we might play with a computer, but we’ve fallen for other synthesizers and drum machines – a lot of it quite cheap, too. We want […]

Peter Kirn - July 28, 2015

2manybuttons is a Perfect Parody of Live Laptop Controllerism

You’ve seen plenty of EDM and DJ parodies, snarky Facebook images poking fun at people who can’t use turntables, what have you. But let me just level with you: this video could basically be a parody of CDM … of me. I… Well, I can’t really say much more. Just watch. (Another way you can […]

Peter Kirn - May 21, 2015

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