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Nov 19, 2024November 19, 2024

Sonicware Liven Ambient 0 🧻🧻🧻💩

Sonicware are a Japanese company that takes pre-orders and ships out their Liven keyboards once orders reach a set goal. It’s not exactly playing hard-to-get but more like hard-to-test these…

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Jul 15, 2023July 15, 2023

Roland AIRA TR8S v.2.5 🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻

It took me a while to pick up the TR8S. I already have the TR8 and felt it would be greedy to duplicate that purchase. And then because I already…

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Jun 4, 2022August 12, 2022

Native Instruments Komplete Ultimate 13 🧻🧻🧻

Like a fat guy running down the street chased by wolves trying not to drop his ice cream. As an owner of Komplete 9 I’ve been offered an upgrade to…

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Aug 14, 2021April 3, 2023

Elektron Octatrack Mk1 🧻🧻

Update August ’21 After much to-ing and fro-ing and watching of videos I went and bought an old Octatrack Mk1, even though I decided against it as my live stage…

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Aug 13, 2021March 26, 2025

AKAI MPC Live 🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻

When used by people who don’t play bongos Now available – Part 2 – in which the MPC is used as an audio workstation on stage. In 1985 I was…

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Aug 13, 2021April 14, 2025

Roland AIRA TR-8 🧻🧻🧻

Here’s your damn cowbell There’s a cafe up from my place called “Cowbell 808” run by beards that are too young to have seen a cow let alone an 808.…

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Aug 13, 2021August 12, 2022

KORG Volca Beats/ Bass/ Keys 🧻🧻

Too short for volcano The Volcas have been reviewed many times and I don’t need to go into much detail. Many of the reviews excuse them from being particularly good,…

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Aug 12, 2021January 7, 2022

Reason 🧻🧻🧻🧻

Update – version 12 has arrived. The promised interface upgrade is hit and miss – some of the built in rack items are now larger than ants – but not…

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