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Near the end of 2020, avid music technology fans discovered that Behringer had registered the MonoPoly trademark. Now, speculations come to an end as the brand releases its own version of the Korg Mono/Poly, a legendary synth from the 80s which was favoured by Depeche Mode and Vince Clarke. Contemporary heavyweight producers like MGMT and […]
Legendary synth maker, Moog, wants you to explore evolving sequences. Its new semi-modular analogue synthesiser is inspired by the ideas in music technology that surfaced in the 1930s and 1940s. The Moog Subharmonicon “spirals through 6-tone subharmonic chords and organic polyrhythms”, the brand says, conceiving experimental, complex sequences and sounds. The Subharmonicon proudly boasts two […]
Price £739 Contact Moog The affection for Moog is vast. All the US manufacturer has to do is offer a sniff of a new product, development or feature, and its customers start salivating – and its sniff of the Subharmonicon got pulses racing quicker than most. At the 2018 edition of Moogfest, the maker’s annual […]
Price £2,899 Contact Studio Electronics It’s been 30 years since the release of the Midimini and Los Angeles makers Studio Electronics has decided it’s high time to revisit the monosynth with which it made its name. Like the original, the V30 is a 4u rackmounted unit. There’s a built-in power supply, MIDI-in and MIDI-thru ports, […]
Price £879 Contact Roland There is little doubt that Japanese makers Roland are major players in the world of music technology. Its many innovations, however, make it all too easy to overlook those equally important products that exist at the less glamorous end of the production spectrum. After all, few things are more fundamental than […]
Price £879 Contact Roland There is little doubt that Japanese makers Roland are major players in the world of music technology. Its many innovations, however, make it all too easy to overlook those equally important products that exist at the less glamorous end of the production spectrum. After all, few things are more fundamental than […]
Fuelled by a greed-is-good philosophy, driven by or perhaps borne of an enormous economic boom, the 1980s saw some in the banking and investment sectors literally earning enough to buy a house each and every week. If you were a successful musician or producer at that time, you were probably earning enough in royalties to […]
Moog has released a new firmware update for the Mother-32, bringing the semi-modular synth up to version 2.0. This update introduces several new features and enhancements – including the ability to finally ignore MIDI clock and start/stop messages, solving a major gripe from users of the instrument. The latest update sees the sequencer now include […]
Superbooth 2020: This morning, Behringer took to YouTube to tease a new synth, with the video titled Engaging Warp Drive Level Two. Judging from the last ‘Warp Drive’ video, which saw the Model D get a paraphonic update, it appears likely that another one of its monosynths is set to get a similar treatment. Although dimmed […]
Superbooth 2020: This morning, Behringer took to YouTube to tease a new synth, with a video titled Engaging Warp Drive Level Two. Judging from the last ‘Warp Drive’ video, which saw Behringer’s Minimoog clone, the Model D, get a paraphonic update in the shape of the Poly D, it seems likely that another one of […]