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Percussa's weirdly wireless and physical AudioCube manipulation, controller and Synthor hardware synth is now available for pre-order, and it ain't cheap.
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Elektron release price and shipping details on their Digitakt 8-track digital drum machine plus you get to play with it online in your browser. Pre-orders are open.
With a suitable Samsung Galaxy device you can now make beats with the iMPC virtual MPC machine
The Atmultitron has 6 voices, a sequencer, wavetable sampling and serious modulation but we won't hear it until 2018
The Digitakt is an 8 track sampler and drum machine that's ready to sequence all your gear.
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Finally you can actually sample into HALion and build your own instruments - hooray! Thanks Steinberg it only took 6 versions.
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Soulsby are poised to release their first Eurorack module. The Oscitron is an 8-bit oscillator based on the Atmegatron with 32 wavetables and input sampling.
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Rumours are heating up that AKAI is working on a new MPC Professional unit, which might be called the 'MPCX' - we give our take on the latest leaked images.
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Is that a xylophone? No, it's an awesome sampling, looping, pitch shifting, delay reflecting Phone-Home Xylophone for the musician who has everything.
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The Bitbox will load up to 16 samples for triggering via MIDI, CV or tapping the touchscreen.
A new standalone Akai MPC Live is on the way according to these leaked images and Quick Start Guide found on a government website.
Happy Birthday Circuit! Novation are hinting at an exciting new update for their 1 year old groovebox on the 1st November.
A Level 1 qualification in MPC beat making? Now there's something to put on your CV.
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That's something you don't see every day - a port of an iOS app to Windows. Remixlive brings it's sample looping performance magic to Windows with or without touch.
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Once again Propellerhead fails to include a new synthesizer in their latest full update to Reason, and that makes me sad.
Some heavy sound designers have contributed to D16's PunchBox Bass Drum Synthesizer – but does it have enough to kick you over?
Plug it into your master bus and it routes your DAW ouput to any Windows application.
Painstakingly creating your own sample instruments doesn't sound like fun to me but maybe a half-decent book might make it a bit less painful.
Infected Mushroom and Polyverse Music announce I Wish, a new sound mangler plug-in combining pitch freezing, formant and pitch modulation and polyphonic wavetable synthesiser. Whew.
Decimort 2 is built around the idea that the Akai and Emu samplers of that long gone age of hardware samplers had a sound, an edge, that's been lost in software sampling. Decimort 2 brings back the grit and ...
Cabinet Impulse Responses are a great way to tailor your guitar sounds in your DAW, adding realism to your virtual guitar amp simulation as well as opening up the sound.