Although piecing together a track through your trusty headphones isn't impossible (Kid Koala's Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, for instance, was largely recorded...
Tascam has long been known for its quality pro-audio recording gear, so the announcement that it was getting into the DJ market came as a pleasant surprise....
Nearly five years ago, Waldorf won the hearts of many jaded analog devotees with the release of the Q analog-modeling synthesizer. With ancestry dating...
CREAMER & K High-octane duo named best remixers of the year By Kylee Swenson When DJs or artists suddenly explode onto the scene, it's easy to despise...
Synthesizer manufactures have a lot in common with their auto-manufacturing counterparts. Large companies tend to build a wide range of products, most...
The epidemic began in '97, when the very retro-looking Access Virus synth arrived on the scene. Throughout the years, the Virus series kept improving...
The Sherman Filterbank defies categorization. Lying somewhere between the average filter processor and a full-blown analog synth, the Filterbank is both...
Line 6 certainly started something with its Pod series of amp-modeling processors. Mainly, the company helped to rescue engineers from the drudgery of...
For nearly 25 years, the Technics SL-1200MK2 has remained the undisputed champion of professional DJ turntables. Many challengers have come and gone,...
Workstation boxes that claim to be all-in-one groove machines crowd music shops and catalogs, and it's difficult for a new entry to stand out from the...
Robert Moog (pronounced like rogue) is a self-confessed geek. The man whose name is synonymous with the first synthesizers holds a doctorate in engineering...
Well, I, for one, have just about run out of metaphors from the history of vintage synthesis to introduce the latest in future-retro synth offerings from...
There are tons of reasons to love Roger Linn. After all, he did invent the Linn Drum, the first drum machine to sound like real drums instead of bloops...
Midiman's Oxygen 8 USB MIDI keyboard controller is one of those pieces of gear that everyone DJs, producers and even nonkeyboardists seems to want. The...
Since the early days of scratching, Stanton Magnetics has probably been best known for its cartridges and styli; its 500AL cartridge has long been the...
These days, manufacturers are trying all sorts of storage variations for their hardware-based digital recorders. Everything from hard disks to Zip disks...
Many musicians are all too aware of just how limited computer-based workstations really are. It seems that no matter how much RAM or processor speed you...
American DJ is a key player in the DJ-equipment market. Also selling under the American Audio brand, the company is a lighting, controller and audio-product...
It's far too easy nowadays to walk into any music store on the planet and become overwhelmed by the dizzying quantities of high-dollar outboard processors,...
Ah, 505. That number brings back memories. My first piece of electronic gear was a Roland TR-505 Rhythm Composer, and, boy, did I feel ready to break...
When Korg introduced the Kaoss Pad in 1999, the company set a new standard for DJ-friendly effects units. The Pad proved to be so popular with DJs that...
You know electronic music is past adolescence when technology debates begin to separate the purists and traditionalists from the rest. While synth fans...
With the introduction of their TTM 54 Performance Mixer and its lower-priced sibling, the TTM 52, about two years ago, Rane made an impressive if somewhat...
Buying a groove box used to involve a dilemma: should you go for a sample-based box such as the Akai MPC or opt for one built around a synth engine like...
Behringer has a reputation for knocking off the designs of other manufacturers. However, Behringer's latest product line is much more than a collection...
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