Polish chemist Jan Czochralski, joysticks and patch points spawned this drum machine
Start with a chemical process that grows crystals and silicon for semiconductors, build a multi-layered 6-7 voice drum machine around...
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The new Ableton Push, at a glance: standalone, new pads, new platform
Ableton today introduced their long-awaited third-generation Push hardware. The layout and functionality are familiar, but there's new hardware including new...
BOSS is bringing back an 80s Roland rackmount delay in a collab with the late Eddie Van Halen
Meanwhile, at Roland... Check your bingo cards, because I've got ... "the 1980s..." ... "digital" ... "Roland rackmount digital delays"...
Here’s Bruce McCulloch and a BOSS DR-660 for peak 90s drum machine vibes
"Check it out." It's just The Kids in the Hall's Bruch McColloch and a BOSS DR-660, "the hottest drum and...
8-bit oscillators with analog overdrive and a glitch lab to bend them: Liquid Sky launches d-vices
Liquid Sky d-vices have unveiled their warped limited-edition modular hardware: a dual oscillator with 8-bit wavetables and analog envelopes and...
Music thing’s Tom Whitwell used ChatGPT to predict Superbooth news – how did they do?
Tom Whitwell, the human who previously blogged about music tech, has turned his attention to just making gear instead under...
Teenage Engineering adds a recorder to their growing range of field gadgets
In case you didn't guess this was coming when they unveiled a field mic, Teenage Engineering has now added a...
Elektron Analog Heat +FX: tweakable multi-effects, analog distortions, modulation
It's finally a fully tweakable, Elektron-style effects box. The new Analog Heat +FX builds on the original - audio interface...
Arturia MicroFreak V5 free update: custom user samples, sample and granular engines
New gear is great, but how about new life from your existing gear? Arturia's pint-sized wundersynth just got a huge...
Synthstrom Deluge synth-sampler-sequencer is now open source, GPLv3; details
Synthstrom's Deluge, a do-everything sequencer-sampler-synth instrument beneath a lit-up grid, is going open source. We've got the details from Synthstrom...
