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It’s official: AKAI has unleashed the MPC Key 61! Find out everything you need to know about the first MPC with a keyboard in our review.
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Ever wondered how to get the old-school sampler sound? Punchy lo-fi drums and underwater pad sounds can give your music a retro feel.
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Sonicware has just revealed the SmplTrek Sampler on Kickstarter and its handheld, groovy nature could give the Roland SP-404 MKII a run for its money.
Lambda II is capable of granulating input audio in freeze or real-time mode with playable 8-voice polyphony and a bunch of effects.
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Casio has been teasing their new keyboard with an "Are You Ready?" campaign and now the CT-S1000V is here, it's weird, fun and innovatively vocal about it.
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IK Multimedia pumps the Syntronik Collection up to 33 synths with over 5,500 presets combining 4 layers of synths per patch of iconic and ultra-rare vintage synthesizers.
AKAI dishes out a feature update for its Force groovebox, adding 3 new instruments, 7 new insert effects, USB audio, and other good stuff.
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In this post we look at how to go about restoring a vintage Emulator II sampler from the 1980s and retrofit it for use in a modern studio.
Word on the street is that Roland is dishing out an extensive update for the SP-404, a 16-year old sampler that still rocks - in its own way.
Open source and DIY the Beatmaker's Sketchbook is a portable music-making device with sampling and sequencing coming in October.
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Urano contains a large range of digital modules for building into 8 parts of sound and modulation using samples, wavetables and virtual analog through digital and analogue filters.
Can Novation's sample-based groovebox open up a new world of beats for you? We took the sleek, fun Circuit Rhythm out for a spin.
Mimic looks like a solid upgrade over Reason's old sampler - but does it break the mold? We take a first look at the latest addition to Reason 12.
A new render of the 61-key sampling keyboard AKAI is building as a key-driven variant of its MPCs, has been discovered. Here's what we know so far.
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Love it or hate it, sampling has always been a part of music. Let's take a look at some ways to incorporate sampling into your music.
Behringer shows the first photos of their forthcoming LinnDrum drum machine clone. They are calling it LmDrum and it looks like it has quite a few extras.