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)

Erica Synths Perkons Review and Tutorial

PERKONS HD-01 Review – Did Erica Synths bottle up thunder in drum synth? Detailed tutorial here

Perkons from Erica Synths is a hybrid analog and digital, four-voice drum synth (and also a drone synth), that takes hands-on controls to the extreme – giving you per voice tone and sequencing control. It’s more expensive and more focused … Continue reading PERKONS HD-01 Review – Did Erica Synths bottle up thunder in drum synth? Detailed tutorial here

Eventide Misha Review

Review: Eventide Misha – an entirely original improvisation and generative sequencing module

Misha from Eventide is an entirely different and original way of performing and composing music, and is also a different kind of generative sequencer. With most instruments or controllers, pressing a key plays the same note every time. With Misha, … Continue reading Review: Eventide Misha – an entirely original improvisation and generative sequencing module