Ground Control is a eurorack sequencer by Endorphines – throwing their hat in the ring for master brain of your setup. It has three mono melodic tracks and another 8 lane drum sequencer track. It has an Ableton Live-style grid … Continue reading Endorphines GROUND CONTROL Review and Tutorial – Eurorack Sequencer and Arpeggiator
My last album was mastered professionally and I was happy with the results, but for this one, I wanted to take a look at a few DIY options to try and personalize things a little bit more. In this video … Continue reading DIY AI Mastering Shootout: Soothe 2 vs Gullfoss vs Intensity by Zynaptiq, along with Magnetismus 2
Deckard’s Dream MK2 from Black Corporation is an 8-voice analog polyphonic desktop synth inspired by the legendary Yamaha CS-80 – which in turn was used, among other, by Vangelis on the soundtrack of BladeRunner. In this video I take a … Continue reading Deckard’s Dream MK2: Is it a Yamaha CS-80 replicant? Full tutorial and review
Welcome to another video where I ask a producer to get into the details of how they create music and perform. Part #1 looked at a DAWless setup, Part #2 at a setup using Ableton Live, and in this episode … Continue reading Synth Setup Tips #3 – Julia Bondar’s Compact Techno Eurorack/MIDI Rig and Performance
Metropolix from Intellijel is the follow up to their popular Metropolis sequencer. It takes the same core idea – a sequencer where not all the stages are the same duration – and expands on that in multiple different ways. Is … Continue reading Intellijel Metropolix Review and Full Tutorial
In this video I take an in-depth look at how the new Circuit Tracks from Novation compares to the original Circuit (and briefly the Circuit Rhythm which isn’t officially available as of the making of this video, so there’s not … Continue reading Circuit TRACKS vs Circuit OG: Review and full tutorial for Novation’s new groovebox
Verselab MV-1 from Roland may look like a groovebox but it has a more ambitious goal – to be an easy to use hardware replacement for your computer, audio interface and DAW software. It’s goal is to let you create … Continue reading DAW-less DAW? MV-1 VERSELAB Review and full song-making tutorial for Roland’s portable studio
The Elektron Analog Rytm MK2 is an 8 voice hybrid analog and digital drum machine, synth and sampler. It just got a new black look and a higher price, and with quite a few other drum synths and samplers having … Continue reading Elektron Analog RYTM MK2 Review and Tutorial
In this video, I take a look at a few tips and tricks to help you get more out of your synth. I’ll be showing them on the Moog Subsequent 37, but many of them are applicable to other synths … Continue reading 13 Synth Tips and Ideas, not just for the Moog Subsequent 37
Every now and then when I review a digital synth, there’s someone that comments “it’s just a MIDI controller with a built in VST” – and technically, they’re right. Any digital synth is just a controller, computer and software bundled … Continue reading Soundforce SFC-60 Review – Does it make sense to buy a MIDI controller dedicated to a plugin synth?