Noir is part bass, part drum synth – a must-have iOS drum machine

Dark, crunchy, synthetic sounds, grooves that morph somewhere in the shadows between bass line and percussion pattern – Ruismaker Noir is exactly the sort of drum machine you’d want with you at all times. And as it’s an iOS app, you can take it with you.

Apple’s new iPad Pro: USB-C is in, headphone and home button are out

Apple’s new iPad Pro again establishes the high-end of Apple’s tablet line. But it also reveals some significant changes that iPad-using musicians will notice – USB-replaces Lightning, and the headphone jack and home button are gone.

Peter Kirn - October 31, 2018

Teenage Engineering OP-Z is here, and it’s full of surprises: video round-up

Teenage Engineering’s OP-Z takes everything the mysterious Swedish maker has done in the past years and packs it into a candy bar-sized hunk of awesome. The first feature reveals and videos of the final creation are inbound, showing it doing some weird and wonderful things.

Peter Kirn - October 29, 2018

Teenage Engineering OP-Z has DMX track for lighting, Unity 3D integration

Peter Kirn - October 29, 2018

Deep Synth combines a Game Boy and the THX sound

Peter Kirn - October 22, 2018

Modular to go: 4ms are making cute little $100 “Pods” for modules

Peter Kirn - October 11, 2018

Control all of Ableton from iOS, Android, Windows: touchAble Pro

Peter Kirn - October 5, 2018

Run your audio gear off of USB power banks: KOMA’s Strom Mobile

Peter Kirn - October 3, 2018

This granular convolver hardware is the latest creation from Tatsuya Takahashi

Peter Kirn - September 26, 2018

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