Roland JD-08 Boutique Synthesizer: A Link to Roland’s Past I’ll be the first to admit, my first impression of Roland’s JD-08 was one of surprise. I thought:…
ASM Hydrasynth Explorer: A Film Score at Your Fingertips Compact synths are becoming more powerful by the day, and what you can do with a desktop hybrid…
Serato Studio Review What exactly is a DJ company doing making a DAW? I wager, just like me, you had this…
Monophonic vs. Polyphonic vs. Paraphonic Synths Monophonic, polyphonic, paraphonic, what do these confusing and occasionally overlapping terms really mean? There’s no need to be…
PreSonus Atom SQ Review From trackers like Renoise to DAWs like Ableton Live, Bitwig Studio, Logic and more, I believe I’ve seen/used…
Bustin’ Out the Korg Volca Keys The Volca Keys was one of the first synths released in Korg’s Volca series in 2013, and it’s…
Exploring the Korg volca modular It’s a “West Coast style” modular synthesizer! It has 50 patch points! It’s… perhaps a little intimidating at…
Analog Filtering Tracks With the Korg Volca Mix With all the great plug-ins available these days, is there really any advantage to using analog outboard processing?…
The Women Who Pioneered Electronic Music It’s no secret that synthesizers have been on the come up in recent years. Modular synthesis is booming…
The Basics of Synth Sound Design The first time I sat at a synthesizer I didn’t care about the knobs and faders, I was…