Here’s a gorgeous chill jam and the excellent 1.9 firmware for the Blackbox sampler

Elektron Digitakt 1.3. Polyend Tracker 1.4. But don’t miss what boutique maker 1010music are doing with their Blackbox sampler. Here’s a look at there just-out 1.9 firmware update – and some lovely music, too. In this season of nuanced, musical updates for desktop hardware, it’s great to get this, too. Andreas Roman reviewed the Blackbox […]

Reason’s Mimic sampler is here, and very Reason-y

Reason is back to its roots, slicing up audio samples and letting you chop them up into instruments – but in a way that stacks up to the workflows of rival DAWs, production tools, and drum machines.

Peter Kirn - August 11, 2021

MOTU’s DP11 is more expressive, controllable, new Mac-ready, adds stuff users wanted

In DAW news, MOTU is continuing to cater to their loyal user base with more stuff they want, Apple Silicon and Big Sur support, plus a ton of new abilities to get expressive and hands-on.

Peter Kirn - July 12, 2021

Novation Circuit Rhythm is here – and it’s the one that actually samples; full details

Peter Kirn - June 22, 2021

Reason 12 will bring new Combinator, more – and subscribers will see features roll out sooner

Peter Kirn - May 21, 2021

Live solo master class: Baseck wailing on an Octatrack MKII is absolutely massive

Peter Kirn - March 2, 2021

Novation’s Circuit Rhythm is coming in summer; here’s what we know

Peter Kirn - February 9, 2021

Retro 16-bit: chipsynth SFC exactly emulates Super NES/Famicom as instrument

Peter Kirn - September 14, 2020

Here’s the editor-plugin the underrated Elektron Model:Samples is missing

Peter Kirn - September 17, 2019

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