Dreadbox’s new 200€ Dysmetria kit is an insane amount of analog groove fun

My favorite thing from Superbooth, the one thing I’d pull out a wallet right away and get? It’s none other than Dreadbox’s utterly brutal-sounding, wildly fun analog semi-modular groove synth for Eurorack or desktop.

Elektron’s Syntakt, broken down: a box of goodness with synthesis, effects, sequencing

Syntakt, launched today, promises to be something special – all the kinds of stuff you love about Elektron boxes, with new capabilities and a fresh approach.

Peter Kirn - April 21, 2022

COLLIDZ° generates detailed ambient music, on its own or with a candy store worth of features

It’s a sequencer. It’s a generative music maker. It’s microtonal. It’s packed with synth engines and effects. But if other tools get you stuck in presets, this world-builder for Reaktor makes each preset and parameter a gateway to something creative and unexpected.

Peter Kirn - March 18, 2022

tahti, free browser groovebox, is now improved and has an open source sample library

Peter Kirn - February 21, 2022

Free browser groovebox: tahti is surprisingly powerful Elektron-inspired groovemaker

Peter Kirn - December 15, 2021

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

Peter Kirn - February 9, 2021

Novation Circuit crams still more features: 1.8 update

Peter Kirn - March 8, 2019

Two twisted desktop grooveboxes: hapiNES L, Acid8 MKIII

Peter Kirn - February 12, 2019

Groove Rider GR-16 1.6 is packing a hell of a punch

Ashley Elsdon - September 18, 2018

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