MiniFreak and MiniFreak-V 🧻🧻🧻💩
It was my fault for pre-ordering the MicroFreak based just on the advertising. It did everything that was promised but when it came down to it that wasn’t enough. Sum…
It was my fault for pre-ordering the MicroFreak based just on the advertising. It did everything that was promised but when it came down to it that wasn’t enough. Sum…
Here we are at the end of another Black Friday, a little poorer, a little shame-faced. Just a little, as greed has fed on less human flesh than usual. I…
Warning. One of these things is stupidly large. I have never warmed to the VCS3. I’ve tried the real thing, I’ve tried several emulations. At no point have I ever…
This page will hold Cherry Audio’s original (and much more interesting) software titles. It is in progress – please stay tuned. Their replica instruments can be found here. Sines 🧻🧻🧻💩…
Orchestron 🧻🧻 Let’s just start with the Orchestron. A shitty optical disc based sample playback machine that went nowhere EXCEPT that Kraftwerk bought one and lathered it all over their…
Why seven? Is it sins? Dwarves? I don’t see sevens in the design. There wasn’t an Integra-6. Or was it like RoboCop – took a few goes? It’s the top…
Everybody from KORG to NI to Arturia has been trying to catch and eat Serum. Even Roland (Roland!) has finally dabbled with wavetables. Vital is the fox that finally got…
In which I actually used the damn thing as intended. (Yes, Donald Duck Hat, just keep moving.) I’ve previously written about the MPC as if it was an old white…
I had one in 1981. It wore out. But now you can get it on your iPad. It sounds like a sick duck.
(Update 2025) You may have read my previous assay into the travails of Advanced Instrument Research, once the shining jewel of ProTools and now the Pinocchio of AKAI’s travelling puppet…