Novation upgrades their SL series with the new SL Mk II line. It has 25-, 49- and 61-key version, plus the Zero again, with no keyboard. Mechanics came from Fatar, a giant display is present (144 character), endless rotary encoders, XY pad, buttons with LED backlight, eight drum pads, and of...

Despite the terrible market situation, Frankfurt has some relevant news for the electronic musician. First, a newcomer, Teenage Engineering has this toy, OP-1 , which is still not available for a while, but previewed. It is a small USB MIDI controller plus a modeilng synthesizer and a sampler in...

LaborOsc from NekroBat is a real programmer's choice with the ability of producing long, evolving sounds. It has three oscillators, multi-mode filter, two LFOs, delay and chorus, with eight simultanous voices. It has only 20 presets so you can tweak your own, no matter. You have to download it...

This fantastic software instrument is a modeled epiano from Devine Machine, OTR-88 . It is only ten megabytes long, has no any sample, you can edit its sounds per key, and has vintage analog effect pedals, modeled, too. If you don't want to invest the horrible price of 229 euro at the first time...

Prosoniq abandons support and sales for all their Windows software titles. They will still update them til the end of the year but, again, no sales can be taken. A Windows-to-Mac switch is freely available at the company's website . Prosoniq's CEO, Mr. Bouche said PC had a very small share within...