Sequential’s Trigon-6 gets the desktop treatment – and update adds MPE

Sequential’s monster Trigon-6 just got smaller and more accessible. You get all of the features of the keyboard Trigon-6, but BYO controller and this three-oscillator, analog beauty is more accessible. And more welcome news: both Trigons get global MIDI Polyphonic Expression support in an update. (There’s a reason you see the Trigon desktop posing with an Expressive E Osmose.)

Oberheim OB-X8 is now a desktop module, in new edition of one of the best synths today

The all-analog-signal path, classic OB-X8 is now a desktop module. It’s a perfect synth: OB-X, OB-Xa, and OB-8 in one instrument, with all the Page 2 extras, and the sounds that made 1999 by Prince, among others.

Peter Kirn - May 9, 2023

Sequential Take 5 polysynth v2 doubles up sounds, adds tuning and tweaking tools

The Take 5 is something special – all the goodness of the Sequential range in one balanced, affordable, compact package. And now the polysynth for the rest of us adds a ton of sounds and sound features, like envelope repeat, LFO slew, tuning choices, Lo-Fi effect, and more.

Peter Kirn - April 7, 2023

Teenage Engineering OP-1 field review, not a review: in the field, on an album

Andreas Roman - January 12, 2023

Sequential Trigon-6: hands-on sounds and impressions of the new polysynth

Francis Preve - November 17, 2022

The late Dave Smith with Tom Oberheim, Marcus Ryle, Tony Karavidas talking OB-X8 design

Peter Kirn - October 26, 2022

Arturia V-Collection 9, feature by feature: a dreamy, futuristic update, new and old

Peter Kirn - June 8, 2022

Dave Smith brought us all closer together; Sequential and MIDI legend has died

Peter Kirn - June 2, 2022

The Oberheim OB-X8 is a beast – here are more sounds from it, straight-up

Peter Kirn - May 19, 2022

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