A man from Germany who calls himself Eric has established a wonderful web museum for electronic musical toys. The page under miniorgan.com has more than 180 instruments listed, photographed an explained. Unfortunately there are very few sound samples but it can change since Eric has all the real...

This wonderful drum machine, MFB-503 is manufactured in Berlin by a small company, MFB . It makes three analog noises - kick drum, snare and tom -, and plays all the hats and cymbals from sampled source; the same method as it was introduced first in the legendary TR-909. You can tweak the sounds...

Spectral Audio is not a new player of the analog arena - now they release the second edition of Neptune, their popular monosynth. Neptune II is monophonic also, with three oscillators (third can be switched to LFO mode), has sync and ring modulators, a separated noise generator, and 24 dB filter...

According to Future Music and Matrixsynth, Roger Linn , legendary maker of the first digital drum machine is finishing his second instrument. The name of the device was - planned earlier this year - Boomchick which is now renamed to LinnDrum II . It will come in two different versions, a full...

Jomox became a big expert of 909-clones so it is highly awaited to produce something in the 808 field. In January we will be totally satisfied: XBase 888 will be out on the street then, with real analog bass and snare drums (plus tom-tom), and with a digital section for downloadable drum samples....

This exactly CD-sized analog synth, bC16 is the first product of a new company called Chimera Synthesis . For 229 USD, it runs on battery, has an oscillator and a filter, an envelope generator, plus LFO, noise generator and ring modulator. Connections can be made via mini banana jacks, but no one...

This month's issue of Future Music publishes a quick test of a new instrument from the two mellotron-specialist, John Bradley and Martin Smith. Their company, Streetly Electronics has just released a new top-mellotron called M4000 which is seriously superior than all the former models. It has 24...

MIDIzoo.com took this photo at NAMM: the product is only a picture, but hopefully will be available sometimes in this year. Roger Linn , maker of the first digital drum machine will release this wonderful toy in cooperation with Dave Smith (also a legend, credits: Prophet, Wavestation and the MIDI...