Gear

Atari, at 50, leaves a legacy of electronic imagination in visuals and sound

It's official: video games, or certainly their leading icon Atari, have crossed the half-century landmark. But maybe that's why the...

Review: Here’s Moog Mavis, packing analog Moog modular essentials into a 24-jack, $349 box

It looks like another budget semi-modular, but look closer: Moog's latest is a distillation of a lot of what distinguishes...

MPC standalone updates look tasty: retro and vinyl FX and amps, probability, ratcheting, workflow

You're spoiled for choice in standalone drum machines. But Akai is leaning heavily on frequent updates - and there's plenty...

GEMA is a delay pedal effect-synth that rumbles like an earthquake, by Senyawa x Squaresolid

From Yogyakarta, Indonesia comes a glitchy, powerful delay effect unlike any other. It's a stompbox with an earthquake setting. And...

MOD Devices made a guitar synth you can actually play like a synth – so your guitar is the CV

It's the sound and expression of a modular synth, but you can mix it with guitar sounds and play it...