Quick tips: changing oscillators while live jamming with Arturia MicroFreak
Arturia's pint-sized weirdo is full of tricks. One of the best ways to get maximum freak-age is to make use...
Music tech
Psychedelic Soldier: a burnt-out Russian tank headlight made into a synthesizer
Swords into plowshares ... invading Russian tanks burnt up and made into synths. Sherman Drozd did just that, salvaging a...
Sinevibes Corrosion v2 is like 10 distortion pedals inside your KORG synth – made in Ukraine
Of all the stuff made for KORG's 'logue platform, Corrosion is one of the most transformative, adding ten (!) distortion...
Ableton’s free Learning Synths site now exports, records, and adds more exploration
Learning Synths, Ableton's free site intended to teach synthesis basics, has added some compelling new features. You can now save...
Teenage Engineering’s mixer – FX – audio interface – instrument is provocatively tiny
The next big idea from Teenage Engineering is a minuscule multifunction mixer-audio interface. It's beautiful and - maybe unusably small....
Elektron’s Syntakt, broken down: a box of goodness with synthesis, effects, sequencing
Syntakt, launched today, promises to be something special - all the kinds of stuff you love about Elektron boxes, with...
Superbooth preview – Making Sound Machines does shuffled beats in voltage
It's about time - shuffled time. For all the beauty of quantized machine beats, what the world needs now is...
Elastic FX 1.4 adds more MIDI to iPhone and iPad powerhouse – and it’s on sale
The must-have four-channel multi-effects for iOS from MoMinstruments just got more MIDI functionality - meaning you can get hands-on control....
Here’s what to know about the return of synth maker legend Tom Oberheim
Moog and Sequential got their names back. Roger Linn never went away. Now Oberheim is back after 35 years, restoring...
Soundwide = NI + iZotope + Brainworx + Plugin Alliance – what to know, what to grab for free
Music merger and acquisition season continues. The latest development is the addition of Brainworx and Plugin Alliance to the conglomeration...
