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Aug 13, 2021December 9, 2024

Roland JD-XA 🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻

Sympathy for the Devil Update – refurbishment and repairs now at the end of the article. To be up front: the only reason I don’t call this Roland’s best synthesiser…

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Aug 13, 2021February 12, 2024

JP08 Boutique Jupiter 8 🧻🧻🧻

Fridge magnets that actually work A Jupiter 8 in a weeny wee wee little box! What ever will they think of next! Although one could churlishly ask why ’08’, when…

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Aug 13, 2021September 1, 2022

KORG wavestate 🧻🧻🧻🧻

Cherubic goatee guy’s revenge. Yet another refresh – August 2022 Since the wavestate was first hatched a number of significant changes have taken place. The first version was limited by…

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Aug 13, 2021August 21, 2021

KORG RADIAS 🧻🧻🧻🧻

My reasons for buying a RADIAS are a bit iffy, but not entirely unreasonable. Right in the middle of the hilarity when I denounced the MS20 Mini, I was actually…

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Aug 13, 2021May 21, 2022

KORG MS2000BR 🧻🧻🧻🧻

BR! That’s Black Rack! I remember when this came out I was down and out, and new hardware was way out of my grasp. So I just made do with…

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Aug 12, 2021December 18, 2025

Arturia Pigments is Seven! 🧻🧻🧻🧻

Look who’s Seven! Although the versioning is rather elastic. Sometimes it’s One Giant Step For Mankind. Other times – like now – it’s a groovy lava lamp when you play…

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Aug 12, 2021March 20, 2025

KV331audio Synthmaster 🧻🧻🧻

(I have version 3 installed – I just haven’t got around to writing about it.) It was claimed for v2.9 (at the time this was written) that this is “one…

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Aug 12, 2021November 13, 2021

Roland Clown 🧻🧻 The tears of a clown.

UPDATED 13 NOVEMBER 2021 When cancelling my Ultimate Roland Clown Subscription I was asked to pick one reason. The pity was that I couldn’t pick ALL OF THE ABOVE. That…

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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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Aug 12, 2021July 5, 2023

Spectrasonics Omnisphere 2.8

🧻🧻🧻🧻💀 Great, Great, Great, Great Granddaughter of the Roland Yacht. Update 8th March 2022 – we now have packages that ‘plug into’ Omnisphere called Sonic Extensions. Given that Omni descends…

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