These three modules - Listen 4, Listen 4Q and Listen IO for Eurorack, provide flexible ways to monitor, mix and record sound from your system. Here's what you need to know about them.
Patchbays are not always well understood but they're a core part of many recording studios. Joe Albano explains everything you ever wanted to know about them.
Taken from his full length MasterClass which is available to stream for free right now, Dr Shiver discusses the most common mistakes people make when they come to him for mixing and mastering.
Coming soon to Kickstarter, this hardware saturation / fuzz unit has 8 CV inputs, bit distortion, sample rate reduction and much more. Here's the details.
An increasingly popular alternative to using chains of hardware boxes, the all-in-one channel strip or recording channel can save space and money, and sound great. Joe Albano sets out your options.
Update introduces new Launch/Note Mode, side-chain compression (the Mother Ducker), updated recording preferences and improved auditioning of samples/loops.
When you connect up two Elektron devices over MIDI, you unlock special features and functionality. Thavius Beck shows you how the MIDI side works in this short video.
This monster synth from Waldorf could be one of the biggest we've ever heard in terms of its power and feature set. We got a chance to demo it at NAMM 2019.
Overbridge 2.0 massively enhances the power and functionality of Elektron's software and hardware integration. In this short video, Steve H finds out just what it can do.
This cool little synth, just announced by Arturia, has a pressure sensitive playing surface, multiple synth engines and it's more affordable than you might expect. Here's the lowdown.
This new hardware unit from FX developer Strymon has many more tricks up its sleeve than you might expect. Delay, looping and MIDI control are just a few.
If you have ever wondered what those extra ports on your audio interface are for, look no further for an explanation. Joe Albano reveals how you could get more I/O without lifting a finger.
The Stylophone GEN R-8 is a dual VCO British-made boutique synthesizer with a fully analog signal path and a touch keyboard that you can play with your finger.
It looks and sounds gorgeous, and Korg's new Volca Modular brings west coast synthesis to a battery-powered format. Rishabh Rajan was suitably impressed, as he explains in this video.
This unique desktop synth uses Phase Locked Loop Synthesis to generate some weird and wonderful sounds, and it has a whole bunch of tricks up its sleeve. See and hear it in action here.
If you've ever been confused by the terminology around studio connections - TRS, S/PDIF, MegaOhms and more - then worry not. Joe Albano is here to make everything clear.
Intergating hardware to control software plugins and audio software is probably the next big step forward for the music industry. Propellerhead have an interesting approach to make this a reality.