TC Helicon Critical Mass pedal: Vocal FX you can stomp on

Want to sound like a horde is behind you in the chorus? Need your backing vocals to sound like a gang? You need Critical Mass! Or do you?

Orange Dual Discrete OP-Amp: Must-have musical component or audio snake oil?

Designed from the ground up for musical applications!

Slate Digital updates RAVEN to 3.3 with touch gestures and Cubase support

Slate Digital has just announced RAVEN 3.3, the latest version of the software. Its highlight is the introduction of classic multi-touch gestures, such as pinch-zoom, finger swipes to open and close plug-ins...

Superbooth 2017: Mini Modor, the NF-1m synthesizer

Modor have taken their NF-1 digital synthesizer and squeezed it into a much more portable box and called it the NF-1m.

Superbooth 2017: Nerd Seq – it’s a Eurorack Tracker sequencer

Get your geek on with Nerd Seq, a hybrid Music Tracker sequencer for Eurorack with sample sequencing and cartridge expansion.

Superbooth 2017: Bastl Thyme robot operated digital tape machine

Bastl digitise the tape delay and let you play in the space between "Thyme" based effects (see what they did there?)

JOYO Top GT Mini guitar amp: A Fly swatter?

Will this new budget micro guitar amp steal some of the Fly's thunder?

Okko FX Gregor Hilden Diablo Signature Overdrive – Mr Smooth

Known as 'Mr Smooth', GregsGuitars YouTube channel owner Gregor Hilden gets his own signature Diablo overdrive pedal for 2017, which includes some nice additional touches and controls.

Superbooth 2017: What in the world is the Kilpatrick Audio Tungsten???

Kilpatrick Audio made a GameBoy for music geeks and called it the Tungsten! It has a color display, quasi-PlayStation controls to the left and right, and step sequencer buttons...

Superbooth 2017: 4ms reveal Spherical Wavetable Navigator mothership

6 independent wavetable oscillators, with 6 independent wavetable LFO's operating within a sphere of wavetables. I think you need a Spherical Wavetable Navigator.

Superbooth 2017: PreSonus shows its Eurorack-friendly Quantum audio interface

Quantum is the first Presonus interface to have DC coupled outputs for running analog, trigger, or control signals to Eurorack gear. The Quantum is designed to run at low buffer sizes with very low latencies ...

Superbooth 17: Special Rolling Report

All the hot news from Berlin's Superbooth 17 event, happening right now! Loads of new synths and other gear are being presented by manufacturers big and small alike...

Superbooth 2017: Rossum Electro-Music Assimil8or Phase Modulation Sampler

Prepare yourself as multi-timbral phase modulation sampling hits Eurorack in the shape of Rossum Electro-Music's Assimil8or

Superbooth 2017: Crusher-X granular synthesis reaches level 6

Crusher-X granulates audio in elaborate ways for sound designers and guitarists. The new version brings masses of reverb, tuning and modulation.

Superbooth 2017: Music Thing Modular demos 5 new modules

Music Thing has a bunch of prototypes on the Thonk stand including the Startup headphone amp, mixer, LFO, a Graphic EQ, Spring Reverb 2, Magnetophon and Chord Organ.

StudioLinked Studio Rack is a no-frills, great-looking multi-effect plug-in to get stuff done

StudioLinked's Studio Rack is designed as a visually pleasing time-saver that comes with plenty of built-in effects and a boatload of presets ready to grace a budding producer's tracks...

Superbooth 2017: U-He models the Prophet-5 as Repro-5

U-He develop their Repro-1 monosynth into the polyphonic Repro-5 with quite stunning results. Apparently inspired by an old Sequential Circuits synthesizer.

Superbooth 2017: What’s Yamaha inventing with the Reface Robot?

Yamaha are showing a Reface CS being played and manipulated by a robot interface designed by Anno Labs. Is the Reface Robot science fiction or an exciting new direction?

Superbooth 2017: Eowave Quadrantid Swarm Synthesizer

A nebulous and shimmering sound of exquisite and unfamiliar timbres - this is the Quadrantid Swarm Synthesizer

Superbooth 2017: Eloquencer, the Eurorack sequencer that controls chance

Winter Garden are presenting their Eloquencer, an 8 track sequencer dripping with per-step probability and pattern generating randomness.

Are QSC really providing twice the power on their new K.2 PA speaker series?

Have QSC really doubled up the power of their well-known K Series active PA speakers, or is the K.2 Series just a marketing frolic?

Plugin-Alliance’s Multiband “Mastering Beast”: Lindell 354E Compressor Plug-in

From the Plugin Alliance camp comes a retooled version of the Lindell 254E plug-in: the 354E, wich boasts multiband Neve-style compression.

Superbooth 2017: Behringer DeepMind 12 Desktop and DeepMind 6

Behringer's Midas team reveal the 2 "new" synthesizers promised for Superbooth. We have a DeepMind 12 Desktop and a DeepMind 6 - Oh, I'm slightly disappointed.

Superbooth 2017 Leak! Novation Circuit Mono Station Synthesizer

A new paraphonic analogue synth and sequencer box from Novation. The Circuit Mono Station Synthesizer is Novation's second big reveal of Superbooth 2017.