The step sequencer is the founding block of the electronic groove. Velocity, gate, swing, probability, polyrhythm, CV/Gate: here is how it really works, and how to get more out of it than a mechanical loop.
At IBC 2026, Calrec expands ImPulseV, its virtualised audio mixing engine, with 96- and 140-path configurations and short-term licences (one year, twelve weeks, four weeks). Broadcast horsepower is now sized to the job, not to the purchase.
SSL squeezes its entire System T into a sixteen-fader desktop package that ships in two or three flight cases under 23 kilos. Same Tempest engine, Dante, AES67 and ST 2110: top-tier IP console power finally goes on tour.
sonible packs eight processors — EQ, compression, de-harshing, saturation, leveling — into a single strip whose instances talk across the entire session. A genuine bet on mix assistance, to be judged on the result.
Martinic models the 1979 Moog Prodigy monosynth with its ACE technology, then grafts on what it never had: up to eight voices, a built-in sequencer and a spring reverb. Out at 34 euros.
The handheld was the missing piece of the Spectera ecosystem: the SKM transmits and receives on a single antenna, takes Sennheiser and Neumann capsules, and is driven remotely from front of house. Shipping from mid-September.
AEQ brings a modular AoIP console to IBC: up to 24 motorised faders and 180 channels in 3U, 10 N-1 busses, Dante, AES67 and optional MADI. A direct answer to stations’ operational constraints.
Drawmer just shipped the FC1 (FET) and OC1 (opto), two 500 Series modules under 300 pounds each. They cover two of the four big compression families. Here are seven 500 Series modules to round out your rack, from the FET that hits to the diode-bridge that colours, with real prices and honest use cases – no fake equivalents.
Letting one signal drive a processor on another: here is sidechaining explained, from ducking that clears the voice to electronic-music pumping, plus the detection filter that cleans up a bus.
MIDI carries digital messages, CV/Gate carries analogue voltages: here is how to make them talk and build a hybrid studio, from volt-per-octave to clock sync.