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Aug 14, 2021September 2, 2022

Six Free Synthesisers & a Peace Pipe

Vital has been moved to its own page. We’re blessed that software instruments are available, rarely the cost of hardware and often their equal. We’re especially blessed by free, or…

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Aug 14, 2021May 16, 2025

U-He Zebra 🧻🧻🧻💩

The BatSynthesiser Can I start by saying the best thing about Zebra is that it comes with Zebralette, which represents only one module of the parent software. There is enough…

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Aug 14, 2021April 14, 2025

Xferrecords Serum 1 🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻

There is now a Serum 2. Please take the escalator here. It’s a little sad that the original wavetable creators PPG and Waldorf are mostly forgotten, for wavetables now mean…

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Aug 14, 2021April 14, 2025

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…

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Aug 13, 2021May 16, 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.Part 3 describes the new…

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Aug 13, 2021March 26, 2025

Yamaha AN1x 🧻🧻🧻

It is the 90s & there is time for Klax! I kept finding myself saying the AN200 is great box, but if only it had a better interface. And there…

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Aug 13, 2021October 12, 2022

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.…

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Aug 13, 2021March 25, 2023

Roland AIRA System 1m 🧻🧻🧻

Everything’s Gone Green Roland, roland, roland. It grieves me, it really does. Let’s make this short. You put the power switch on the back of a rack. Perhaps you had…

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Aug 13, 2021March 25, 2023

Roland AIRA System-8 🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻

It’s most gratifying to see Roland Corporation take note of my comments regarding the System-1m – surely so, as each has been addressed exactly to my specification. There is now…

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Aug 13, 2021April 16, 2025

Roland JP8080 🧻🧻🧻🧻

Supersaw my order If there is a system by which JPs, JDs, JVs and JXs can be sorted I’d love to know the secret. Maybe it’s the same way they…

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