Category: Reviews

Korg had the bonkers idea of putting the analogue filter from the miniKORG 700s into an audio interface.

We’ve had the TEO-5 analogue synthesizer on show at the last couple of Synth Picnic events and it’s consistently the synth people like the most.

I opened the box in the afternoon and by the evening I was using it at a gig – that’s how easy the Faderpunk is to use and configure

Bishop’s Miscellany Mk2 is a dual channel sequence recorder, melody generator, note processor and song-building engine that offers some fabulous real-time controls once you gel with the interface.

Sycamore is a two-channel melody maker that borrows from both the Turing Machine and an unfinished Mutable Instruments project to produce alarmingly engaging music.

The KeyStep controllers are superb for their connectivity, ease of use and half decent keybed. When they told me they had a new version coming out my first thought was that they would somehow ruin it.

A super-stringy, super-pipey Karplus Strong module with up to 32 voices. SuperKar+ combines a Chord Voice with a polyphonic Solo Voice for a spectacularly useful module that’s oozing texture and organic tones.

The Gen X-2 is fun synth that’s packed with analogue grit and rosy memories with expanded features that never quite live up to their potential. It’s frustratingly great!

How does it take three modules for form a kick drum?

This is Not Rocket Science has pulled a reverb apart and spun it into space as a conversation between entities Bopp and Steve.