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8 Excellent MIDI Sequencers For Hardware Musicians & Producers

Sequencing hardware from a hardware MIDI sequencer is as old skool as it gets. Here are some of the best options on the market right now.

Music Theory: How Beams Can Save You Time And Effort When Grouping Notes In Notation

Beams are a standard way of simplifying certain elements of a musical score. Gregg Fine explains why you should be using them.

Excellent Video of Make Noise Morphagene Eurorack Module By Celldweller

In this video Celldweller takes us on an in-depth tour of the new Make Noise Morphagene, a rather unique module that creates new sounds using 'reels, splices and genes'.

Superbooth 2017: Audiowerkstatt Mini MIDI Drum Seq

The Mini MIDI Drum Seq from Audiowerkstatt is a old-school, but cool, MIDI sequencer for drums. There's no OLED screens here. It's still in prototype stage, but we got an interesting live demo of it.

Superbooth 2017: Prettiest Eurorack Modules Ever? ZVEX Lo-Fi Junky & Fuzz Factory

These two hand painted Eurorack modules from ZVEX don't just look like something you'd like to hang on your wall. They are pure art. But, they also sound impressive too.

Soar Tape Delay Plugin From Joey Sturgis Tones Combines Best Of Digital & Analog

Why choose between a digital and analog style featured delay plugin when you can have both? Joey Sturgis Tones' Soar is a solution for those that want to have their tape delay cake and eat it.

Review: Dadamachines Automat - Robotic Music Machines Toolkit

Using physical robots to play musical and experimental sequences is an innovative new direction for MIDI technology. Timo Preece put it to the test.

Native Instruments Previews 5 New Reaktor Blocks

Shift Sequencer, Curve Sequencer, Duality OSC, Morph Filter and one very special block for Reaktor were previewed at Superbooth 2017. we chatted with one of the makers who showed us around them.

Blocs Wave for iOS Goes FREE

What once cost not very much, now costs even less. Blocs Wave for iOS is a powerful looper studio with plenty of advanced features. It's now free to download on the iOS App Store.

Superbooth 2017: Bastl Instruments Eurorack, Softpop Synth, The Dude

Soft pop, new eurorack faceplates, mini mixers, The Dude... desktop modular pieces. All of this and more are coming out of Bastl Instruments' labs, and you just know they're going to be awesome.

Meeting The GhostBusters At Superbooth 2017

There were so many booths at Superbooth 2017 in Berlin it was a refreshing change to meet Vladimir of VPME.de carrying his booth in a bag with some pretty eurorack modules on show.

Ableton Announces Loop 2017

Ableton Loop, Ableton's summit for music makers, is set to return to Berlin on November 10'"12 for its third edition. Here's the latest new and ticket ordering info for one of the events of the year.

Watch Elektron Digitakt Drum Sampler In Action

Now that we've seen it in action, we love the Ekektron Digitakt. Cenk from Elektron gave us an in-depth tour focusing on many of its excellent features.

No More Waiting Lists, 808 Analog Drum Machine Clone, 8RAW8, Soon Available For All

The 8raw8 is a Roland TR-808 clone. It's analog, sounds excellent, looks beautiful, and doesn't come with a sequencer. It's about to get a lot easier to buy one though. That's the good news.

Review: Modstep, The Most Powerful MIDI Sequencer for iOS?

Modstep is arguably one of the most powerful iOS MIDI sequencers around. We put it through its paces and were more than pleasantly surprised.Â