Acid, further out: check Florian with MeeBlip, 303, and Zen Delay

There’s some magic and alchemy in coaxing evocative music out of stuff with knobs, and Florian Meindl’s Riemann Kollektion keeps showing up how.

Great news for MOTU interfaces: new Ultralite, Apple Silicon and Big Sur support

The Mark of the Unicorn shines brightly. MOTU are here with a ground-up redesign of their blowout hit audio interface UltraLite (now on revision mk5). Combine that with expanded support on Apple platforms and a still-great driverless line, and you have a MOTU interface for just about any job.

Peter Kirn - April 8, 2021

Polyend Tracker Artist Editions are full musical releases, not just pretty faces [Gallery]

For all the accessibility of music tech, that relationship between artist and builder matters. So yeah, these Polyend Trackers are pretty, but they also come with sound and music releases, too, by Bogdan Raczynski, Legowelt, and Pete Cannon.

Peter Kirn - April 6, 2021

Endorphin.es go live-friendly with new sequencer, multiband processor

Peter Kirn - March 30, 2021

Live solo master class: Baseck wailing on an Octatrack MKII is absolutely massive

Peter Kirn - March 2, 2021

A 1970s Swedish modular you probably never heard of was meant for every music school

Peter Kirn - March 1, 2021

Teenage Engineering are going deeper into consumer design, with startup Nothing

Peter Kirn - February 25, 2021

Beads is the new sequel to Mutable Instruments’ Clouds, and an instant classic – again

Peter Kirn - February 16, 2021

What’s in Novation’s new Circuit Tracks: polysynths, drums, sequencing, samples, $399

Peter Kirn - February 9, 2021

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