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D16’s Drumazon 2 review: a must-have 909-inspired drum machine plug-in

Polish software house D16 has been cooking something special for its flagship 909-inspired drum machine, Drumazon 2. It's an emulation...

TR-8S owners can get a free sound pack from Underground Resistance’s Recon X

If you want to be inspired to discover more futuristic potential lurking inside your everyday Roland machine, where better to...

New MPC One+ standalone: updated CPU wifi and storage, $699 – and runs AIR’s new Juno plugin

The MPC One Plus now adds WiFi and Bluetooth, 16 GB of storage, and brings this entry-level standalone up to...

This drum machine turns children’s heartbeats into music, raising visibility of kids’ heart defects

Teenage Engineering and designer Love Hultén worked together on the design for the CHD-4, a drum machine based on electrocardiograms....

Elektron’s Syntakt, broken down: a box of goodness with synthesis, effects, sequencing

Syntakt, launched today, promises to be something special - all the kinds of stuff you love about Elektron boxes, with...