MPC standalone updates look tasty: retro and vinyl FX and amps, probability, ratcheting, workflow

You’re spoiled for choice in standalone drum machines. But Akai is leaning heavily on frequent updates – and there’s plenty in the latest MPC 2.11 release for all their standalone devices.

GEMA is a delay pedal effect-synth that rumbles like an earthquake, by Senyawa x Squaresolid

From Yogyakarta, Indonesia comes a glitchy, powerful delay effect unlike any other. It’s a stompbox with an earthquake setting. And it’s a special collaboration – between Yogya’s engineer of sound and mayhem Andreas Siagian aka squaresolid and instrument builder and musician Wukir Suryadi of the band Senyawa.

Peter Kirn - May 25, 2022

Dreadbox’s new 200€ Dysmetria kit is an insane amount of analog groove fun

My favorite thing from Superbooth, the one thing I’d pull out a wallet right away and get? It’s none other than Dreadbox’s utterly brutal-sounding, wildly fun analog semi-modular groove synth for Eurorack or desktop.

Peter Kirn - May 16, 2022

Bastl’s delicious Pizza: waveshaping meets FM for a tasty modular oscillator

Peter Kirn - May 11, 2022

Hands-on tour of the Oberheim OB-X8 architecture, feature by feature, with Francis Preve

Francis Preve - May 10, 2022

Elektron’s Syntakt, broken down: a box of goodness with synthesis, effects, sequencing

Peter Kirn - April 21, 2022

Underground Resistance is back with new EPs, reissue, mix, and Detroit – Tijuana hookup

Peter Kirn - February 28, 2022

Type in lyrics, and this keyboard sings them, as Casio returns to its Casiotone roots

Peter Kirn - January 21, 2022

Dorico 4 is finally engraving-level notation with MIDI editing powers, in a single tool

Peter Kirn - January 14, 2022

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