Gear

Review: nanobox adds palm-sized synthesis to 1010music’s cute gear line

It's the perfect follow-up to 1010's ultra-compact blackbox sampler and bluebox mixer. Now nanobox adds pint-sized synthesis to the range,...

Watch this Kazakh pop video for the maximum weirdness of Casio’s singing robot keyboard

Look, I don’t want to say that Casio missed a marketing opportunity here and buried the lede on their awesomely...

Type in lyrics, and this keyboard sings them, as Casio returns to its Casiotone roots

It's like the love-child of those fun 80s portable keyboards and Vocaloid. New Casiotone keyboards will sing lyrics for you....

Celebrate your Blue Monday with the choir sound from New Order – and Kraftwerk’s Orchestron

Expect there are quite a few blue Blue Mondays in the house, so this is topical - our friend Alex...

Polyend Tracker 1.5 lets you save custom instruments – and opens up sharing with others

Polyend quietly updated their cult hit Tracker with a smartly-designed feature for keeping settings organized as instruments. What might really...

Get lost in magical 1983 footage of Brilliant Trees, delicate IBM Dictaphone looping

Whatever you're doing now, if you want to calm yourself and rediscover the love of slow production, watch this transcendent...

An album released on Nintendo 64 cartridge – the next nerdy Remute ROM release

Vinyl? Done. Tape? Ha, as if. German artist Remute is using obsolete game technology to release music - and the...

Softpop SP2 is next-level analog synthesis and processing from Bastl and Casper Electronics

It's next-level chaos - literally. The radical sonic exploration of the original Softpop by Peter Edwards and Bastl has been...

DIY Eurorack series kicks off with Erica Synths and Moritz Klein mki x es.EDU

Latvian legends Erica Synth are teaming up with German DIY electronics personality Moritz Klein for a 9-kit modular monosynth project....