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Your guide to the 3 best new underground synths from NAMM – not a clone in sight
Nothing new under the sun? Think again. Independent manufacturers are still creating novel designs for music making – and last week brought a lot of news.
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Return of full-sized KORG MS-20, as retro trend continues
It’s badly upstaged by the ARP 2600, but for those who want it, KORG are again making full-sized MS-20 synths. That caps a long string of MS-20s from KORG.
Peter Kirn - January 14, 2020
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Roland has a new 88-key keyboard, and it means MIDI 2.0 has arrived
Roland has a new high-end keyboard with weighted action and lots of extras. The real news, though: this is the first MIDI 2.0 instrument from Roland.
CHORDimist is an insane Max for Live chord-generating MIDI effect
Peter Kirn - January 3, 2020
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HEXO for Live is an arpeggiator transformed into a polyphonic compositional tool
Peter Kirn - January 2, 2020
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Amazon’s AWS DeepComposer is peak not-knowing-what-AI-is-for
Peter Kirn - December 3, 2019
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This is the new MeeBlip thru5 kit, a cheep and cheery MIDI splitter
Peter Kirn - October 22, 2019
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