The WMD Metron: When Sequencing Giants emerge from the Digital ocean
The Metron’s return, complete with updated firmware v1.6 and renewed commitment to the entire sequencing ecosystem, represents more than nostalgia.
Nine Inch Nails Releases Single From Upcoming Sountrack Tron: Ares
Nine Inch Nails has broken their five-year silence with “As Alive As You Need Me To Be,” the lead single from the upcoming Tron: Ares soundtrack.
The kHarper: When Algorithms Learn to Dream Like Fish
The kHarper doesn’t want to be your next pop synthesizer or your go-to lead generator. It exists for those moments when you need texture, surprise, and the kind of sonic unpredictability that comes from algorithms designed to behave like living systems rather than digital machines.
The Chordcat groovebox: When a DJ Giant Decides to Make Music Creation Purr
The Chordcat represents Alpha Theta’s bold entrance into music production territory, leveraging decades of DJ technology expertise to create something entirely new
The MicroBrute UFO: When Aliens Abduct Your Favorite Analog Synth
The original MicroBrute was never meant to be polite or refined. It was designed to be immediate, aggressive, and unapologetically analog in an era when digital convenience was king. The UFO edition preserves everything that made the original special while addressing the one issue that plagued early Brute series owners: those infamous sticky knobs that seemed to develop their own gravitational pull over time.
The XTRIKE: When Synthesizers Abandon Keys and Embrace Impact
The Instrument That Thinks Like a Drummer, Sounds Like the Future Most synthesizers still cling to the 12th-century keyboard as their primary interface—a somewhat absurd situation when you consider we’re dealing with instruments capable of sounds that Bach could never have imagined. But X Audio Systems’ XTRIKE boldly abandons this centuries-old paradigm, asking a provocative … Read more
The Boundary Layer: Where Chaos Theory Meets Modular Synthesis
At first glance, the Boundary Layer might seem like a complex slew limiter—and it is. But calling it “just” a slew limiter is like calling a Swiss Army knife “just” a blade. This triple cycling slew is simultaneously a modulation oscillator, voltage-controlled portamento, envelope generator, and drone synthesizer, often all at once.