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Teenage Engineering's Capcom videopaks blend your music with classic games
Music makers with the OP-Z synth can use the new Capcom videopaks to add retro gaming scenes to their music.
Arturia gives its Pigments super synth a massive free update
Pigments 3 adds a new synth engine, new wavetables, four new effects and 300 new presets.
Moog's Sound Studio bundles are modular synth starter kits
You get two synths, a mixer, cables, a patch book and adorable carboard cutouts.
Poly Effects Beebo review: A versatile and complex touchscreen guitar pedal
Poly Effects Beebo is one of the most versatile guitar pedals on the market. It’s basically a modular synth in a pedal format with an easy-to-use touchscreen.
Arturia's flagship PolyBrute synth is shipping now
Arturia’s $2,899 PolyBrute isn’t for the faint of heart. But it’s definitely gotten the synth nerd world all worked up. Now the first batch are shipping world wide and will be in the hands of eager users soon enough.
Novation Circuit Tracks is a worthy successor to a beloved groovebox
The Circuit Tracks is a budget-friendly tool for getting into electronic music production and improves on the original Circuit in almost every way.
This portable, rechargeable synth focuses on the pretty side of modular
Pluto is the latest instrument to try and shrink modular synthesis down to something portable and battery powered.
Liven XFM is a $199 groovebox for '80s fetishists
Liven XFM features three "fusion" FM engines that allow you to blend and morph sounds to create entirely new ones.
Strega is a compact modular synth for crafting dreamscapes or hellscapes
Strega (Italian for witch), is a complex drone machine built in collaboration with Alessandro Cortini of Nine Inch Nails fame. It can sound like a hazy memory or a night terror.
Poly Effects fully merges Digit and Beebo into one super pedal
The Poly Effects Digit and Beebo are two of the more interesting guitar pedals to come out in the last few years. They were built on the exact same platform and their firmware are completely interchangeable. Now the company is taking the next logical step, and combining them into a single firmware and single pedal under the Beebo name.
Polyend Tracker review: A powerful but confounding groovebox
The Polyend Tracker is an exceptionally built and almost intimidatingly powerful groovebox. It can record samples, edit them, turn them into playable synths, and control external gear. It will carry you all the way from germ of an idea to polished track. The workflow isn’t for everyone, but it’s impossible to deny the value packed into this $599 instrument.
Moog app brings the classic Model 15 modular synth to the Mac
Moog has released a Mac version of its Model 15 app, helping you recreate the classic modular synth on your computer.
Hector is a virtual modular synth you can put in your real modular synth
Hector is essentially a Poly Effects Digit and Beebo modular guitar pedal, but in a 30 HP Eurorack module.
Korg teases Drumlogue, a hybrid analog / digital groovebox
Korg announced the next member of the ‘logue family: the Drumlogue. It will be a hybrid analog / digital groovebox. Judging from the short teaser video, that means some analog drum voices similar to the Volca Beats, as well as PCM and digital synthesis voice.
The miniKORG 700FS is an overdue reissue of its first landmark synth
Korg is finally giving its first synth the miniKORG 700 the recognition it deserves with a 100-percent analog reissue: the miniKORG FS. The company even brought back the original designer, Fumio Mieda to oversee the development.
Korg reinvents a cult favorite with the Modwave wavetable synthesizer
In 1985 Korg released the DW-8000, an analog-digital hybrid synth that combined at the time cutting edge digital oscillators with analog filters. The Modwave is an all digital take on the DW, updated to fit in with the company’s modern lineup, including the Wavestate and Opsix, which focus heavily on knob-per-function controls and live performance.
Korg's ARP 2600 M is a 'mini' version of an iconic synth
The ARP 2600 M is about half the size of the original and one-third the weight. But it still packs all the classic sound design modules.
Arturia updates the MicroFreak synth with three new oscillators
The MicroFreak gets perhaps its biggest update yet with three new oscillators from Eurorack experimentalists Noise Engineering.
Uno Synth Pro is IK Multimedia's attempt to move beyond budget instruments
IK Multimedia is stretching its wings yet again, this time with the Uno Synth Pro. This three-oscillator paraphonic instrument goes well beyond the portable and affordable Uno Synth and looks to carve out space among higher-end competition like Korg and Moog.
Roland's Verselab is a groovebox built for vocalists
The Verselab is a music studio in a box complete with a vocal processing unit. It's aimed squarely at singers, songwriters and rappers.