groove Archives

The best budget drum machines for music production

14 Jun in Synths

Drum machines provide the creative foundation for songwriting in so many musical Genres. We check out some of the best budget drum machines.

The Best Drum Machine VSTs to Get your Groove on

27 May in Studio

We have selected the best drum machine VSTs from emulation of legendary classic to cutting-edge AI-driven sample scanner. Get your groove on!

Hiroaki Nishijima shows us the next Behringer synth he’s working on

04 Mar 2022 in Synths

Korg MS-20 inventor Hiroaki Nishijima has been working with Behringer on their new synth line and gave us a sneak preview of the Hirotribe groovebox.

Novation Circuit Rhythm Deal: 25% off for Black Friday only!

26 Nov 2021 in Synths

The Circuit Rhythm is finally here and will turn samples into stellar tracks with built-in recording, performance effects and on-the-go capabilities.

Best free plug-ins this week: LOADED, Modern Deluxe and Mini Ringo

16 Aug 2020 in Studio

This week’s collection of free plug-ins includes a channel strip, a British guitar amp and a MIDI groove sequencer. Check out LOADED, Modern Deluxe and Mini Ringo!

Ratchet: Eurorack drum brain for deep thinking rhythms from Schottkey Modular

26 Feb 2020 in Synths

Ratchet is the first module from Lia Harmon of Schottkey Modular and it's an impressively deep dive into the nature of beat making and rhythm composing in Eurorack.

Audiomodern Playbeat is a creative groove randomizer plug-in

10 Oct 2019 in Studio

Need some new inspiration for your beats? Audiomodern has released Playbeat, a pattern generator plug-in that helps you come up with new ideas by randomizing grooves.

SampleTank 4 with up to 8000 sounds and 250GB of samples available now

22 Feb 2019 in Synths

Whatever sound you can possibly imagine can probably be found amongst the 8000 presets of SampleTank 4. IK Multimedia's behemoth sample-based software workstation is available now.

NAMM 2019: Steinberg Absolute 4 instrument collection is in excess of 100GB

24 Jan 2019 in Synths

A chunky update to the Absolute collection of Steinberg HALion, instruments and synthesizers including the new Groove Agent 5, HALion 6 and HALion Sonic 3.

SampleTank 4 unveiled with 8,000 sounds and a new sound engine

13 Dec 2018 in Synths

A whopping great big update to the original software sample library workstation. SampleTank 4 has 5 times the content, a redesigned sound engine, mixer, editing and grooving.

Superbooth 2018: Behringer have brought along their TR-808 clone

03 May 2018 in Synths

Behringer gives us a sneak peak at their TR-808 Rhythm Composer clone called the RD-808. It's still being developed but is only a few months from production but is looking pretty fabulous.

Superbooth 2018: FingerSonic SYNSET FM 6 operator 8 voice desktop synthesizer

30 Apr 2018 in Synths

FingerSonic are having a stab at the easy-to-use FM based groove box with internal and external sequencing, 3 drum tracks and two arpeggiators to run this cool 6 operator, 8 voice synthesizer.

Elektron’s Overbridge DAW integration app delayed again

14 Feb 2018 in Synths

9 months since the release of the Digitakt and there's still no Overbridge. Elektron put back the release date for a second time and ask for our patience as they try to get their awesome integration to work.

Circuit 1.6 brings panning, FX muting, pad dimming and micro steps

27 Sep 2017 in Synths

Novation grant more wishes with the Circuit 1.6 update including the long-awaited ability to pan, mute effects, put in some micro steps and dim the lights.

Groovebox: A beats and synths studio for iOS

13 Jun 2017 in Synths

Get your groove on with this cool new synth and drum Groovebox for iPad and iPhone from the same team of developers who made Launchpad and Blocs Wave. Groovy.