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Roland’s AIRA Compact: bite-sized versions of TR drum machine, JUNO-60 synth, vocal FX
They’re smaller and cheaper than the Boutique series and first-gen AIRA, they’re battery-powered, and they pack a surprising amount of functionality and hands-on control. Roland has a new compact platform for the AIRA, and they look cute and fun.
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Roland Verselab MV-1 combines drum machine, looper, melody, vocals
Roland’s latest outgrowth from their shared hardware platform is a groove machine, song arrangement tool, and looper – one that acknowledges some people want to do both beats and vocals.
With Endlesss Studio, sampling, riffing, collaboration connect from mobile to Mac
We’ve seen plenty of efforts to make it easy to build song ideas from samples and loops on mobile. With a Mac launch, Endlesss now does what it set out to do – make those sound materials connect everywhere.
Strymon’s Volante is a new, lush-sounding magnetic echo FX pedal
Peter Kirn - January 14, 2019
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Datalooper lets you play Ableton Live with your feet
Peter Kirn - November 15, 2018
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Maschine adds loop recording, controls Apple Logic, more
Peter Kirn - April 5, 2018
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