Gear

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...

Polish chemist Jan Czochralski, joysticks and patch points spawned this drum machine

Start with a chemical process that grows crystals and silicon for semiconductors, build a multi-layered 6-7 voice drum machine around...

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...

BOSS is bringing back an 80s Roland rackmount delay in a collab with the late Eddie Van Halen

Meanwhile, at Roland... Check your bingo cards, because I've got ... "the 1980s..." ... "digital" ... "Roland rackmount digital delays"...

8-bit oscillators with analog overdrive and a glitch lab to bend them: Liquid Sky launches d-vices

Liquid Sky d-vices have unveiled their warped limited-edition modular hardware: a dual oscillator with 8-bit wavetables and analog envelopes and...

Music thing’s Tom Whitwell used ChatGPT to predict Superbooth news – how did they do?

Tom Whitwell, the human who previously blogged about music tech, has turned his attention to just making gear instead under...