Sinevibes Quarta: 10 FX, 4 zones on the pocket-sized NTS-3 kaoss pad

Korg’s NTS-3 is an absolute joy — a cute, pocket-sized, inexpensive kit that you can load up with custom effects. But that gets even more interesting once you add Sinevibes’ library of effects. And now you get one especially created for the X/Y pad. I’ve been testing a prerelease build, and this is a return to everything that I love about kaoss. And oops — here’s the perfect pocket live/DJ effect.

Sinevibes Cache has turned into a buffer-mangling, playable breaks machine

Oh, Cache is good as a Mac/Windows/Linux effect — flip, repeat, stretch, robotize, and generally go buffer-mad. But you expected that from a Sinevibes plug-in. The joy here is that now you can really play. Connect a MIDI keyboard, and Cache is a breaks-friendly, sound transmorgrifying effect instrument.

Peter Kirn - November 25, 2025

Sinevibes Cache 1.1 on NTS-3 kaoss pad is killer; Artemiy shows us why

Sinevibes’ creations are all gems running on the ultra-compact, ultra-economical KORG NTS-3 kaoss pad (via logue SDK). But the Cache update is an especially big deal, with new reverse, rewind, and scratch modes. Creator Artemiy Pavlov showed us just how. Cache was designed specifically for the NTS-3, so the whole effect and how you interact […]

Peter Kirn - May 15, 2025

KORG multi/poly native is as satisfying as a desktop plug-in as it in hardware

Peter Kirn - March 6, 2025

KORG multi/poly – a modeled mono/poly that’s secretly a KAOSS-filled studio

Peter Kirn - October 24, 2024

Sinevibes to go: granular reverb, distortion, phaser on next-gen Korg

Peter Kirn - October 1, 2024

Sinevibes’ Artemiy in free KORG sound design showcase

Peter Kirn - September 2, 2024

“Words become plastic”: Stephen Mallinder, Cabaret Voltaire founder, polymath, interviewed

David Abravanel - December 23, 2022