• Feature Stories, Keyboard Reviews, NAMM 2018 FS

    Winter NAMM Show 2018: Keyboards

    Black Corporation Black Corporation surprised us with Deckard’s Dream. To quote the website, “Deckard’s Dream is an 8-voice polyphonic analogue synthesizer inspired by a certain ...
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  • Drum Machines and Percussion Modules Reviews, Keyboard Reviews, Reviews

    The Soul of the Modern Rhythm Machine: Exploring the Dave Smith Instruments Tempest, Elektron Digitakt, ...

    Elektron Digitakt We won’t pretend that this is an average review or shootout. This is a special kind of review for a specific kind of ...
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  • Keyboard Controllers & Control Surfaces Reviews, Keyboard Reviews, Keyboards, Synths & Workstations Reviews, Reviews

    Roland RD-2000 Stage Piano

    While we love all the new analog and digital synth gear that has become popular again these days, there's no question the "basics" will always ...
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  • Keyboard Reviews, Reviews, Soft Synths & Virtual Instruments Reviews

    IK Multimedia Syntronik 1.2 for Mac/PC and Syntronik for iPad

    After spending the past few years focused heavily on developing hardware products, we’re happy to see that IK Multimedia has put a renewed development effort ...
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  • Keyboards, Synths & Workstations Reviews, Reviews, Synthesizers Reviews

    Roland System-8 Plug-Out Synthesizer

    Analog modeled synths have come a long way over the past couple of decades. Where the term analog modeling used to suggest "sounds just like ...
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  • Keyboard Reviews, Keyboards, Synths & Workstations Reviews, Reviews, Synthesizers Reviews

    Novation Peak

    Novation has built more than a few memorable electronic music products, and the Bass Station monosynth was one such instrument, still extremely popular and now ...
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  • Keyboard Accessories Reviews, Keyboard Reviews, Reviews

    Yamaha MD-BT01 and UD-BT01 Wireless MIDI Adaptors

    We have seen many advances in technology over the years, yet it is always fascinating to see how some standards stand the test of time, ...
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  • Keyboard Reviews, Reviews, Soft Synths & Virtual Instruments Reviews

    XILS-lab PolyKB III

    Here in the U.S., perhaps XILS-lab doesn’t come to mind as quickly as other European software plugin companies, but we are thinking more and more ...
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  • Keyboard Reviews, Reviews, Soft Synths & Virtual Instruments Reviews

    UVI Urban Suite

    We are always on the lookout for cool sounding virtual instruments. UVI has a number of intriguing plug-ins, and one that definitely exceeded our expectations ...
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  • Keyboard Reviews, Keyboards, Synths & Workstations Reviews, Reviews, Synthesizers Reviews

    Radikal Technologies Accelerator

    There’s a pretty powerful, virtual analog poly-synth on the market that many keyboard players are unaware of: the Radikal Technologies Accelerator. Players and producers ranging ...
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