176 Results for "sampling"

Review: Arturia Pigments 4 Polychrome Synth

Arturia update their impressive polychrome soft synth, Pigments, to version 4. How have Arturia improved on this highly regarded instrument?

Sonicware LIVEN LoFi-12 – Sampling Groovebox

The Sonicware LIVEN Lofi-12 features a retro sampling engine for that authentic low bit and sample rate sampling in a feature packed box

Warehouse meets your house: How to sound like The Prodigy

The Prodigy rose from the rave scene in the late 1980s and became a hugely successful crossover act, we look at what went into their sound.

Novation Circuit Rhythm 2.0: Firmware update to reinvent beat making

Novation introduces a new firmware for the Circuit Rhythm and adds editable effects, beat matching, Fixed Length Recording and numerous improvements.

Samples of the week: Beat Machine, Vienna MIR Pro 3D, Empire Breaks

Samples of the week is here with new releases by IK Multimedia, Vienna MIR Pro 3D, Native Instruments, Rast Sound (VoxPlay), and freebies!

AKAI MPC Key 61 Review: The MPC is a proper synth now!

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.

SmplTrek Portable Production Sampler: Killer SP-404 alternative?

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: real-time granular effects Max for Live device

Lambda II is capable of granulating input audio in freeze or real-time mode with playable 8-voice polyphony and a bunch of effects.

Casio CT-S1000V: Not sure we were ready for this!

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.

IK Multimedia Syntronik 2: Synthesizer sampling and modelling gets deeper and rarer

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.

Roland SP-404 MKII: an update to the veteran sampler arrives

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.

Superbooth 2021: Sucofunk Beatmaker’s Sketchbook

Open source and DIY the Beatmaker's Sketchbook is a portable music-making device with sampling and sequencing coming in October.

Gotharman’s Urano: Modular Synthesizer in a box

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. 

Novation Circuit Rhythm: The Review

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.

Reason 12 gets Mimic Creative Sampler instrument with four modes

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.

Leak: AKAI Pro MPC Key 61 sampling workstation found in 2.10 update

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.

F.’em: 11 Operator FM hybrid quad-timbral Synthesizer

11 Operators configured through a freely assignable matrix with FM, VA and sample-based sounds, multimode filters and a complex effects engine. Did we miss anything?

New details emerge on the Novation Circuit Rhythm

Novation has been a bit cagey about their new Circuit Rhythm due out in the summer but more details have appeared on a Dutch webstore - let's dig in.

Nameless Grand: unique hybrid piano combination from Sound Magic

Two grand pianos brought together through sampling and modelling with unique sound characteristics as the mysterious Nameless Grand.

Free: Over 300,000 records from 1900-1960 to stream and download

Ready for some old-school recordings? Check out this vast collection of vinyl and shellac from 1900 - 1960 you can stream and download for free.

Novation Circuit Rhythm: First official details revealed

Sampling, beat-making and performance are the cornerstones of the officially revealed Circuit Rhythm but we won't see it until the summer.

NAMM 2021: Kurzweil K2700 Workstation Monster

Kurzweil invites us to witness the arrival of the heavyweight K2700 Workstation which continues the long and legendary K2 series of mammoth musical machines.

Miso Modular Cornflakes: Honey crusted flakes of granular goodness

Cornflakes is a granular sampler for Eurorack that's full of all the vitamins and iron your modular needs for a grain-based diet of sonic loveliness.

Leak! Tracks and Rhythm: New Circuits from Novation?

An online store accidentally published photos of what looks like two new Circuits inbound from Novation: Circuit Tracks and Circuit Rhythm.