Elektron has announced its celebration of 25 years with the release of limited e25 Remix Editions of three of their units, the Digitakt, Digitone and Syntakt. Hand-built in stainless steel, individually numbered and with laser-etched logos, they come in a unique box design/build, and also come with e25 poster versions […]
KORG announces its flagship KAOSS Replay, a self-contained performance tool serving as a combined solution for musicians, performers and producers. It features unparalleled KAOSS Pad and Effects, expanded sample playback and sampling capabilities, plus intuitive and precise DJ controls. It’s designed as a standalone unit which can be used without […]
KORG has announced the launch of its MPS-10 drum, percussion and sampler pad, claiming it to be the “next step in the constant evolution of drum performance and musical expression.” The unit features ten pads, high quality sound source, versatile sampler, four CC pads, and a four-track looper, plus external […]
Roland has announced a major update for its FANTOM 6/7/8 users, with the release of a software update that can be downloaded and installed on the flagship synthesisers. Rather than launching a whole new physical keyboard, Roland has taken the much friendlier and cost-effective step of letting users purchase and […]
Most of the time when we talk about new musical instruments we are primarily concerned with how they sound, but for a significant proportion of the population, this isn’t the primary concern. People with partial or complete hearing loss will be far less interested in the sounds something makes, but […]
Hit’n’Mix has announced the latest version of its RipX software is now a fully-fledged DAW with AI built right in to the workflow to aid in creating human-friendly results from automatically machine-generated content. Claiming to be the first of its kind to provide “a truly holistic approach to cutting-edge AI […]
In the mid-70s, when Moog was in the ascendancy, composer Mort Garson created an album for plant life and its owners (or caretakers). Mother Earth’s Plantasia had the tagline “warm earth music for plants… and the people who love them.” The history suggests it was never going to be a […]
Oxi Instruments has relealed its latest multitimbral synth, the CORAL. It features eight full voices, polyphonic massive sound, multi-part, multi-engine, a WAV player, custom wavetables and built-in FXs. It claims to be the market’s only fully multitimbral synth, which we’re not convinced about, but no matter, here are some more […]
Master piano manufacturer Edelweiss has created a one-of-a-kind baby grand piano artwork called Harmony of Nature, where one of their baby grand acoustic pianos has been wrapped in a representation of an autumn leaf. Designed by Ambika Hinduja Macker from Impeccable Imaginations, it is inspired by nature and has ended […]
Although we’re not great fans of pianos being destroyed in the name of art, we are quite happy to see people creating interesting visual designs which challenge the status quo of what a piano should look like. That is, of course, if the piano continues to play and sound the […]
Many home studio musicians swear by having a hardware DAW controller featuring faders and rotary controls for their DAW, as it offers an immediately available, tactile experience which just can’t be matched by a screen, mouse or even touchscreen. Most are usually limited to whatever configuration you first buy them […]
Teenage Engineering at it again, with the launch of their battery powered TX-6 six channel stereo mixer with a small form factor, some nifty features, and a pretty huge price tag. Whether the price is worth what you get is likely going to be debated and argued over, just as […]
During the summer, KORG announced the launch of its Gadget VR Music Production Studio, based on the popular and award-winning KORG Gadget which is already available for a variety of platforms including iOS, Mac, plugin, and Nintendo Switch. Anyone with a compatible virtual reality headset can now enter the world […]
Here’s a rather beautiful box called “The Ambient Machine”, designed by Yuri Suzuki in partnership with Pentagram Design. It was designed to create a partly controllable background ambience for users to enhance their environment. It features a variety of sounds and music which can be manipulated via 32 switches on […]
Future Retro recently announced its Vector hybrid synth is back in production after an enforced break due to COVID restrictions. The Vector is a unique hybrid synth with a flexible architecture that allows many different forms of synthesis to be realized. The Vectra utilizes digital oscillators, ring modulators, noise sources, vector mixer, […]
Alesis has announced the availability of a free version of their Analog Lab VST instrument. Analog Lab Play features a streamlined interface and browser and a curated section of 100 presets, for fast, fun and easy sound exploration. Analog Lab V software will be renamed Analog Lab Pro and the […]
Nopia is a prototype/MK1 MIDI controller primarily focused on tonal harmony, which describes chords in Western scales in relation to a tonal centre. A chord builder in Nopia combines notes in a specific key to create both simple and more complex chords, as well as associated complementing notes for a […]
There are a huge range of scales in use in both Western and non-Western music. As well as the very common major and minor scales are a whole host of others used in a variety of different musical styles, genres and cultures. Here we have assembled 56 scales with the […]
Steinberg has announced a major new version release of its popular Cubase DAW, taking the version to 13. Ignoring the “unlucky” jokes, we’ll take a look at what’s new and improved in this professional music software. New/Updated Features Workflow Improvements Versions There are three version of Cubase available to purchase. […]
Italian synth manufacture Crumar has announced it will be relaunching a modern version of the classic Spirit synth, forty years after it was first released in the early 1980s. In fairness, the idea is not new and the company is not the original, however there have been movements on the […]
Elta Music has recently announced the availability of its experimental synthesizer instrument, the SOLAR 42. It’s a microtonal ambient drone machine which may inspire you to find a new and spontaneous approach to composing music. Designed for live performance, creating film and theatre soundtracks, atmospheric sounds, microtonal and background music, […]