hardware

Watch a hacked DJ technique made with karaoke tapes, by Ōedo Technica

Peter Kirn January 12, 2021

Vinyl? CDJ? Meh. Hand-mixing and "scratching" karaoke cassette tapes on hacked machines as a new form of strange pop music...

Roland at CES: VERSELAB MV-1 Song Production Studio and new digital pianos

Ronnie January 12, 2021

For this year’s all-digital CES, Roland has announced some new products. The VERSELAB MV-1 Song Production Studio is an all-in-one...

Roland Verselab MV-1 combines drum machine, looper, melody, vocals

Peter Kirn January 11, 2021

Roland's latest outgrowth from their shared hardware platform is a groove machine, song arrangement tool, and looper - one that...

Happy Jamuary – kick it off with this compact duo of MeeBlip and Zoom

Peter Kirn January 8, 2021

When you feel like you're out of ideas, when you've obsessed over that edit and that knob, when your mood...

LIRA-8 reimagines the LYRA-8 organismic drone synth in Pd, VST, AU free – donationware

Peter Kirn December 30, 2020

The wonderfully mysterious analog LYRA-8 synthesizer world now has an unofficial digital cousin - and it's free-or-pay-what-you-can for Pure Data...

Heritage Audio’s BritStrip console channel strip now available

Ronnie December 30, 2020

Heritage Audio has announced availability of the BritStrip British-spec discrete Class-A console channel strip, a 19-inch rack device that features...

Polyend updates firmware of Tracker standalone workstation to v1.3.0

Ronnie December 29, 2020

Polyend has announced the release of a firmware update for its Tracker standalone hardware tracker workstation, adding the timely introduction...

Black Lion Audio introduces PG-XLM and PG-X Power Conditioners

Ronnie December 28, 2020

Black Lion Audio has announced availability of the PG-XLM Power Conditioner and PG-X Power Conditioner, providing best-in-class professional power conditioning...