Critter and Guitari Kaleidoloop, portable looper, is back with new features
Kaleidoloop, an adorable portable looper/recorder, is back with a compact form factor plus a software update that delivers new modes,...
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Yamaha’s SEQTRAK looks like a return to fun mobile music designs
It's an FM/sample-based synth, sampler, drum machine, and connected music maker. And most noticeably, it sees Yamaha return to the...
Teenage Engineering’s EP-133 K.O. II: sampler-sequencer, $299
Finally, Teenage Engineering looks set to hit the sweet spot we want. Their new box has the stylish Braun-like industrial...
Roland’s AIRA Compact: bite-sized versions of TR drum machine, JUNO-60 synth, vocal FX
They're smaller and cheaper than the Boutique series and first-gen AIRA, they're battery-powered, and they pack a surprising amount of...
Tiny Poly: Roland is making Boutique versions of JD-800, JX-8P
Roland is continuing its series of tiny synths with some unlikely additions - the 1985 JX-8P and 1991 JD-800. But...
Error Instruments’ Loopman is an experimental cassette Walkman instrument
Also from the mad genius of Error Instruments - Loopman is a Walkman-style tape record player-looper, modded for speed manipulation,...
One artist is making insane, impossible, hilarious KORG volca mock-ups
None of this is legal or licensed... or real. Some of it is straight-up impossible. But this fanciful library of...
Novation’s Circuit Rhythm is coming in summer; here’s what we know
Novation's Circuit Tracks is out now - I've got one to test. Circuit Rhythm is coming in summer. It's the...
What’s in Novation’s new Circuit Tracks: polysynths, drums, sequencing, samples
Okay, everybody's been seeing their computer too much lately. So Novation's Circuit Tracks does stuff with no screen, no menus,...
What’s in Novation’s new Circuit Tracks: polysynths, drums, sequencing, samples
Okay, everybody's been seeing their computer too much lately. So Novation's Circuit Tracks does stuff with no screen, no menus,...
