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…
Tag: sampler
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Arturia Microfreak v5 🧻🧻🧻💩
More updates – now with three and a half knobs. Before anything else – thank Arturia for actually trying out ideas not the regurgitation practised by Behringer and Roland. In…
Steinberg Padshop 2.2 🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻
Updates and corrections April 2024 Padshop was once a granular synthesiser in Cubase that you’d play with on the odd occasion. Granular synthesis is lovely for pads and waft –…
Steinberg HALion 7 🧻🧻🧻🧻
Updated for version 7 and many errors punched. I have written about eras of sampling, and the horror of owning hardware in a seething pit of wires. That leads to…
UVI Falcon 2🧻🧻🧻
Pizza with the Lot The first time I opened this I had a double take … hang on … I’ve seen this before… it’s Steinberg’s Halion. Given Halion has been…
Apple Alchemy 🧻🧻🧻🧻
Camel Alchemy was reborn as an Apple product. Nice for some. This is the complete negation of hardware, the do everything, super-bloody-complex mega-synth that is completely and utterly disinterested in…
Zoom Arq-96 🧻
Ring a ring a rosie Somewhere in Japan, in an office high above the confusion of the streets, a man dressed in an impeccable business suit sits at a neatly…
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.Part 3 describes the new…
Roland XV5080 🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻
Roland’s Luxury Yacht Behold, resplendent in gold grey trim, the big walla of 2000. Roland’s Luxury Yacht. It arrives as the pinnacle of the XV series and has a twinkle…
Roland V-Synth XT 🧻🧻🧻🧻
What’s in a name? Roland loves to make up new names. The least change brings on the most flamboyant wording, in those special ‘space’ fonts that Roland and SONY adore.…