• NAMM Show 2019 Special Report
    Feature Stories, Keyboard Reviews, NAMM 2019 FS, Reviews

    Winter NAMM 2019: Keyboards

    Arturia Arturia released the curious Microfreak synth. Using some of Mutable Instrument’s Plaits Eurorack open-source oscillator algorithms (including Superwave, Harmonic Oscillator, Karplus-Strong, Wavetable, Virtual Analog, ...
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  • Keyboard Reviews, Reviews, Soft Synths & Virtual Instruments Reviews, Soft-Synths Reviews

    Roland Cloud 5.8

    Roland has a long history of building great hardware synths, and you’d be hard pressed to find a hit song that didn’t have at least ...
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  • Keyboard Reviews, Keyboards, Synths & Workstations Reviews, Reviews, Synthesizers Reviews

    Yamaha MODX8

    Yamaha introduced the mighty MONTAGE synthesizer in 2016, and, like us, most of the music community has been very impressed by it. Combining two independent ...
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  • Keyboard Reviews, Keyboards, Synths & Workstations Reviews, Reviews, Soft Synths & Virtual Instruments Reviews, Soft-Synths Reviews

    Vengeance Sound VPS Avenger

    The market for synth plug-ins is, to say the least, saturated. So much so, it has become quite a challenge to stand out, especially when ...
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  • Keyboard Contollers Reviews, Keyboard Controllers & Control Surfaces Reviews, Keyboard Reviews, Reviews

    Arturia Keylab MkII

    In 2013, we reviewed the Analog Lab and MiniLab, and in 2016 we reviewed the Keylab 88. While we love the software that comes bundled ...
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  • Keyboard Reviews, Keyboards, Synths & Workstations Reviews, Reviews, Workstations, Pianos & Organs Reviews

    KORG GrandStage

    While many players today jump right to a red Nord when they think of the modern stage piano, other companies have been producing stage pianos ...
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  • Keyboard Contollers Reviews, Keyboard Controllers & Control Surfaces Reviews, Keyboard Reviews, Reviews

    IK Multimedia iRig Keys I/O

    Way back in 2013, we reviewed the original iRig Keys, and that portable, mini-37-key MIDI controller proved to be very useful in our travels between ...
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  • Keyboard Reviews, Keyboards, Synths & Workstations Reviews, Reviews, Workstations, Pianos & Organs Reviews

    Yamaha Genos Digital Workstation

    The arranger keyboard category has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years–not only in the number of available products, but also by power and ...
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  • Keyboard Reviews, Reviews, Soft Synths & Virtual Instruments Reviews, Soft-Synths Reviews

    Arturia V-Collection 5 & V-Collection 6

    Arturia has been in the game of recreating classic synths virtually for nearly fifteen years, and some would argue that their outstanding virtual instruments are ...
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  • Keyboard Reviews, Other Keyboard Software Reviews, Recording/Live Sound Equipment Reviews, Recording/Live Sound Plug-ins Reviews, Reviews, Soft Synths & Virtual Instruments Reviews

    Blue Cat Audio PatchWork V2

    One of the most frustrating parts of music production is running into software incompatibility problems. Your Pro Tools-based studio needs plug-ins to be in the ...
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