MIDI Polyphonic Expression

Tuning, polyphonic expression: Black Corporation’s Roman Filippov

The evolution of music is intertwined with the design and capabilities of instruments. After several decades of more constrained tuning...

Sequential’s Trigon-6 gets the desktop treatment – and update adds MPE

Sequential's monster Trigon-6 just got smaller and more accessible. You get all of the features of the keyboard Trigon-6, but...

BLEASS Voices is the all-in-one vocal transformer for Mac, PC, and iOS we were waiting for

Sing for joy on this one: BLEASS is a vocal transformer / harmonizer that's easy to use like a synth,...

Kyoka on the new Ableton Push; approaching Push as an instrument

How does the new Ableton Push perform as an instrument - with those new expressive pads? We invited artist Kyoka...

Here’s what’s in Apple’s Logic Pro for iPad – and it’s more than you probably think (first impressions)

It's been a long time coming, but Logic Pro's leap to the iPad is an impressive one. You get a...

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...

Arturia Augmented BRASS makes it uncommonly easy to build up hybrid brass sounds

Arturia has rounded out its Augmented line with Augmented BRASS. It's like a hybrid brass plug-in even for people who...