Beneath Polyend Medusa grid and knobs, a wealth of possibilities

It’s an analog-wavetable polysynth with an expressive grid – but that only begins to describe what makes the Polyend Medusa such a unique instrument. Here’s a deep dive into this hybrid synthesizer and what it means musically.

Pioneer Squid is a monster standalone sequencer for your gear

Forget for a second that Pioneer is the CDJ and DJM company. Their latest TORAIZ goes a radical new direction – making what might be the biggest mainstream hardware sequencer since the MPC and Octatrack.

Peter Kirn - April 24, 2019

The new Maschine Mikro is tiny – but now its workflows scale

Native Instruments this fall unveiled a bunch of low cost alternatives to its flagship producer products – and the one that perhaps attracted the most attention is Maschine Mikro. Can you fit more into a small package?

Peter Kirn - November 7, 2018

Maschine will finally get time stretching, melodic shifting for loops

Peter Kirn - November 28, 2017

What to know about NI’s new Maschine, Komplete Kontrol hardware

Peter Kirn - September 7, 2017

This weekend’s BeatMaker 3 could change your mind about the iPad

Peter Kirn - July 13, 2017

Akai’s standalone MPCs revealed – and they could replace your laptop

Peter Kirn - January 9, 2017

Maschine adds real-time slicing and other stuff you asked for

Peter Kirn - June 15, 2016

Watch a live looper performance troll itself

Peter Kirn - June 1, 2016

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