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.

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

You can already sample and slice with Native Instruments’ groove production instrument. But soon, you’ll change loops’ pitch and time in real-time, too.

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

Hands-on guide to customizing the Novation Circuit

Peter Kirn - April 27, 2016

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