Gear

Here’s some lovely music in the woods, on monome norns arcologies and more

It’s a rig in the dirt, on a budget, with some beautiful music. DIY forest sounds are go. Now that...

Nonlinear Labs C15, ultra-expressive keyboard instrument, adds recording and USB MIDI

The C15 was already a unique and rarefied instrument with multiple, highly expressive controllers for keyboard players. But it was...

Black Corporation’s next hardware is a Jupiter-8 recreation, with MPE and microtuning

Black Corporation, makers of Deckard's Dream and Kijimi, continue their run of ultra-luxe polysynths. Now the sought-after Jupiter-8 is in...

New Capcom videopacks turn OP-Z into a novel audiovisual gaming instrument, free

The worlds of gaming, “play,” and electronic music have always been in an extended flirtation. A deep collaboration between Capcom...

All the Apple Event news: More M1, Podcast Subscriptions, and don’t lose your keys

In a lovely contrast to “everything’s delayed because chip shortages” and “everything is a subscription,” it’s refreshing to hear Apple...

Acid, further out: check Florian with MeeBlip, 303, and Zen Delay

There's some magic and alchemy in coaxing evocative music out of stuff with knobs, and Florian Meindl's Riemann Kollektion keeps...

Great news for MOTU interfaces: new Ultralite, Apple Silicon and Big Sur support

The Mark of the Unicorn shines brightly. MOTU are here with a ground-up redesign of their blowout hit audio interface...