Roland FP-40: price, specs and the Wi-Fi digital piano
Roland brings Wi-Fi to its FP line for the first time. The FP-40 pairs the Piano Reality engine from its grands with…
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Modartt Airteq: price, specs and the physical-modeling instrument that plays air
Modartt, the French developer behind Pianoteq and Organteq, has launched Airteq, a software instrument that uses neither samples nor classic oscillators: it…
Elektron Monomachine and Machinedrum plugins: free VST3 emulators of the classics
Two quiet legends of the 2000s, Elektron's Monomachine and Machinedrum, are now emulated as free, open-source software. Built by an independent developer,…
Granular synthesis explained: how grains of sound build textures
Granular synthesis chops sound into tiny fragments — grains — and replays them by the hundred to create pads, textures and soundscapes…
Acid Rain Technology Ziggurat: a quad Eurorack quantizer, price and specs
Acid Rain Technology launches the Ziggurat, a four-channel Eurorack quantizer built around note masks, per-note slew and a sequencer-style Chain mode to…
Sentient: price, specs and the neural network behind this AUv3 synth
Valery Mironov releases Sentient, an iOS and macOS synth whose neural network listens to everyday sounds to build a wavetable unique to…
What is a vocoder? Carrier, modulator and the robot voice explained
Behind the robot voice of Kraftwerk or Daft Punk sits a simple idea: stamp the spectrum of a voice onto a synth.…
Like the Behringer Mini Pops 7: 7 analog and hybrid drum machines worth knowing in 2026
The Mini Pops 7 revives the analog rhythm box, but it is a preset machine. Here are 7 analog and hybrid drum…
Dillon Bastan Iota II: price and specs of the Iris 2-style spectral sampler
Dillon Bastan releases Iota II, a plugin that turns the spectrogram into a playing surface. You draw playback paths through the sound,…
oZoe Drum Box: a hands-on, menu-free French drum machine
French brand oZoe introduces the Drum Box, a seven-track drum machine that bets everything on direct control: one parameter, one knob, no…