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East Beast and West Pest review: Affordable intros to the addictive world of modular synths
Cre8Audio's East Beast and West Pest are $250 semi-modular synths that deliver incredible value.
The best Black Friday deals on music gear
The best Black Friday deals on synths and music gear you can buy right now.
Eventide’s H90 Harmonizer is an insanely powerful and insanely expensive guitar pedal
Eventide's H90 Harmonizer is an insanely powerful $900 next-gen guitar pedal.
Moog resurrects Moogerfooger effects as a collection of digital plugins
After being discontinued in 2018 Moog is bringing Moogerfooger effects back as a collection of plugins.
Arturia MiniLab 3 hands-on: A big upgrade for a budget MIDI controller
Arturia's MiniLab 3 adds a full sized MIDI ports, an arpeggiator, faders and improves DAW integration.
Arturia’s MiniFreak is a weird-but-powerful digital synth at a great price
Arturia's MiniFreak is weird and powerful digital synth that builds on success of the MicroFreak in exciting ways.
Erica Synths Pērkons review: A uniquely thunderous drum machine
Pērkons is a uniquely thunderous drum machine. But at $2,059 you need to be in love with its quirks.
Native Instruments pads out its Komplete 14 suite with some welcome new toys
The new Komplete 14 bundle includes an Kontakt 7, plus new tools from Izotope and Plugin Alliance.
Arturia's Dist Coldfire might be the only distortion plugin you need
Arturia threw everything and the kitchen sink in Coldfire, its one-stop dirt shop.
LANDR Studio has everything you need to make and release music (except a DAW)
LANDR Studio's monthly subscription gets you samples, instruments, mastering and distribution.
Arturia’s FX Collection 3 adds classic distortions, plus granular and lo-fi effects
Arturia's FX Collect 3 is an even better deal now with 26 different effects.
Launchkey 88 brings a luxurious keybed to a budget MIDI controller
Novation's latest Lauchkey controller has an expansive 88-key semi-weighted keybed.
AIAIAI Studio Wireless+: Finally, low-latency headphones for music producers
I underestimated just how freeing it would be to ditch wired headphones in my studio.
Polyend's Play is an elegantly designed sample-based groovebox
Polyend's Play builds on the Tracker's elegant hardware with a more conventional workflow.
Novation's first keyboard for FL Studio offers a lot of utility for $200
The FLKey 37 and FLKey Mini put FL Studio's most important features at your fingertips.
Arturia's Augmented Strings is a cinematic combo of orchestra and synth
The first entry in Arturia's new Augmented line of instruments is free until April 30th.
Native Instruments’ Maschine devices are up to $200 off
You'll also get some free software expansions if you pick one up by May 5th.
Arturia Efx Fragments makes granular approachable
Granular effects and synthesis are trendy, but often intimidating. Fragments makes it approachable.
Arturia is giving away a free lo-fi tape plug-in for the holidays
Arturia's tape simulation from its Mellotron instrument is a free standalone effect for the holidays.
Universal Audio Volt review: Pro audio power at bedroom producer prices
UA's first foray into budget audio interfaces is largely a success thanks to its unique 76 Compressor.
