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.

AKAI’s cute little MPK mini keyboard now has internal sounds

AKAI’s MPK mini was already something of a sleeper hit – a simple MIDI controller keyboard that was small enough to be irresistible. But the latest revision makes it useful even all by its lonesome.

Peter Kirn - April 18, 2019

Alternative modular: pd knobs is a Pure Data-friendly knob controller

pd knobs is a knob controller for MIDI. It’s built with Teensy with open source code – or you can get the pre-built version, with some pretty, apparently nice-feeling knobs. And here it is with the free software Pd + AUTOMATONISM – proof that you don’t need to buy Eurorack just to go modular.

Peter Kirn - April 3, 2019

Review: can Elektron’s Model:Samples get everyone into hardware?

Andreas Roman - March 21, 2019

Apple’s latest Macs have a serious audio glitching bug

Peter Kirn - February 18, 2019

NI now has killer, budget audio interfaces and compact keys

Peter Kirn - February 7, 2019

Behringer Crave synth: vintage bits, all the extras, $199

Peter Kirn - January 27, 2019

Buchla’s pioneering Thunder touch controller is back, on Sensel Morph

Peter Kirn - January 23, 2019

The new iPad Pro has a USB-C port – so what can it do, exactly?

Peter Kirn - December 5, 2018

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