One of the first websites to folly implement WebMIDI, Soundmondo lets reface synth users store, recall, organise and share their sounds with other users. This looks like a promising portal.
Audio interfaces are one of the most important element in any recording or production studio. Here's five of the best for every budget that made waves in 2015 which we reviewed.
Hardware synthesizers have continued their revival in 2015 proving that demand for tactile music machines is alive and kicking. Here's 5 of our favorite hardware synths released this year.
Using a mouse or trackpad to control your music software is limiting. We asked YOU the brand of your primary MIDI Controller, and with almost 25,000 answers... Here's the results!
The Christmas & Winter Holidays are fast upon us. Whether you're thinking of a gift for a music making friend/relative or for yourself, here's 15 music gifts bound to improve the festive cheer.
Yamaha tell us their new HPH-MT7 studio monitor headphones "exemplify the philosophy since (they) first produced the industry standard NS-10M monitor speakers." Here's all the details.
At AES 2015 in New York Matt Vanacoro of Ask.Audio caught up with some of the most interesting exhibitors showing their latest and greatest audio production hardware and software.
Vocaloid is a sining voice synthesis technology which has just got a useful new library which caters to creating female American English vocal parts. Good to see Yamaha continuing to push the tech.
How well does this portable, 4-operator FM additive synth with integrated looper and mini-keys perform? Find out in this video review by Matt Vanacoro.
The Yamaha Reface CP features a vintage keyboard sound engine with six detailed vintage keyboard types. Matt Vanacoro puts all six to the test in this video review.
Is the new virtual analog engine powered Yamaha reface CS synth as small, fast, portable, and excellent sounding a synth as Yamaha hope it will be? Matt Vanacoro finds out in this video review.
What can Yamaha do to make their brand spanking new range of TF mixers better than they already are? Well, the latest firmware update adds more languages to HELP and brings TF editor to Mac.
To celebrate our new website design, new name, and the Ask.Audio Academy, we've partnered with the biggest & most popular music industry companies to give you the chance to win $33,000 of music gear.
At first glance, the Yamaha AG06 looks like a small, simple mixer. But there are a lot of unique features under the hood. Matthew Loel T. Hepworth climbs under the bonnet to reveal those secrets.
Yamaha have launched their new range of Reface mini keyboards which have redesigned and reimagined four classic keyboards used by artists from Stevie Wonder to Pink Floyd, Queen to Michael Jackson.
Yamaha have teased and teased us for a few weeks now about their new synths, Reface, due to be launched officially tomorrow. But now the cat is well and truly out of the bag.
Yamaha have a new synth and we've been told by our friends inside the company, is a very big deal. Yamaha reface will be unveiled on 7th July. In the meantime, check out the teaser video below.
Single Cycle Audio have released Vintage Drum Elements, an AU'‹/'‹VST plugin based on the Yamaha RX5 vintage drum machine. It's available via Bandcamp as an album and can be downloaded for free!
The world of compact digital mixing consoles just got a shot in the arm with the introduction (well shipping) of Yamaha's new TF series, featuring motor faders, plenty of analog inputs and much more.
Fancy a compact digital mixing console to add to your studio setup? Want motorised faders? Yamaha's new TF5, TF3 and TF1 sport 33, 25 or 17 faders respectively with tons of analog outputs and more.
Matt Vanacoro, pro keyboard player, programmer and trainer, got hands on with the Yamaha Motif XF synth workstation and created this 5 video-series showing you how to use it for multi purposes.