Yamaha SEQTRAK Review, tips and tutorial

YAMAHA SEQTRAK: 30 advanced tips and 5 things to know before you buy – Review & Tutorial

SEQTRAK is Yamaha’s return back to the portable groovebox market – it’s got plenty of buttons and hands-on controls, it’s loaded with internal sounds and synths and it can sample too. Yamaha already have a good beginners tutorial for it … Continue reading YAMAHA SEQTRAK: 30 advanced tips and 5 things to know before you buy – Review & Tutorial

201 Pocket Piano

201 Pocket Piano:  a minimalist synth that’s infinitely tweakable – Review & tutorial

201 Pocket Piano from Critter and Guitari is a two-in-one bundle of polar opposites. On the one hand, it’s a small synth with a minimal set of controls and no screen. Yet, under the hood, it’s infinitely customizable and tweakable … Continue reading 201 Pocket Piano:  a minimalist synth that’s infinitely tweakable – Review & tutorial

Yamaha Montage M Loopop Review

Yamaha Montage M Review, What’s new, Poly AT keybed & AN-X explored // M6/M7/M8x Tutorial

Montage M is Yamaha’s latest flagship synth: It builds on the existing popular Montage platform and adds significantly enhanced hands-on controls with new encoders and an extra parameter display, a new virtual analog-style synth engine, on top of the existing … Continue reading Yamaha Montage M Review, What’s new, Poly AT keybed & AN-X explored // M6/M7/M8x Tutorial

Kaoss Replay

Korg Kaoss Replay Review: Pros & cons vs the competition (SP404 MK2, MPC, Blackbox)

Korg’s Kaoss Replay takes inspiration from the XY-pad-centric interface of their old Kaoss products, but is really it’s own thing. It has 16 velocity-sensitive pads; it can sample, resample and play back samples and whole songs, the Kaoss pad is … Continue reading Korg Kaoss Replay Review: Pros & cons vs the competition (SP404 MK2, MPC, Blackbox)

korg keystage loopop

Korg KeyStage Review: MIDI 2.0 finally works – let’s see what it can do

KeyStage from Korg is the first keyboard I’ve seen that actually seems to have a working implementation of MIDI 2.0’s capability of automatically mapping synth parameters on a controller. It also has a polyphonic aftertouch keybed, OLED sub-screens for each … Continue reading Korg KeyStage Review: MIDI 2.0 finally works – let’s see what it can do