Erica Synths – Sonic Potions LXR-02 drum machine review: deep dive
LXR-02 is what the world needs now: a drum machine with its own personality and soul. It slaps harder, plays...
hands-on
Arturia FX Collection 2 is a fantastically deep set of audio effects with some new additions
In a short span of time, Arturia has built up their stable of effects into an imposing all-in-one package –...
Shaper2 is futuristic, glitchy, aggressive K-Devices plug-in waveshaper FX goodness
Feeling destructive? K-Devices’ Shaper2 is a fast route to digital edginess, it’s on discount now. And it is not mentally...
Smooth Operator is a brilliant new spectral sound sculpting plug-in from Baby Audio
Smooth Operator is a unique new way of reaching out and sculpting sound at the spectral level - and it's...
Acid, further out: check Florian with MeeBlip, 303, and Zen Delay
There's some magic and alchemy in coaxing evocative music out of stuff with knobs, and Florian Meindl's Riemann Kollektion keeps...
ID700 for iPad reboots the 1987 Buchla 700 – FM, waveshaping, and polyphony (Hands on)
It was the once and future Buchla. But back in 1987, the Buchla 700 was so painfully ahead of its...
Jockey could be the custom OSC controller we’ve been waiting for (iOS, macOS)
You've got an iPhone or an iPad, and you want to control .... a Max patch, a live visual or...
Pipa is a unique vocal synth plug-in and app that’s supremely fun to play [Hands-on]
Lying somewhere between organic and artificial in its sound, the vocal synth Pipa - available as both an iPad app...
Reason Friktion review: an exquisitely playable physical modeling string instrument
From Reason Studios comes a new physical modeling instrument, Friktion, focused on bowed and plucked strings. The twist: it lets...
