Palm-sized Woovebox puts a powerful groove machine in your pocket

The Woovebox micro music workstation rocks a stripped-back design reminiscent of Teenage Engineering’s Pocket Operators, but has more to offer the mobile groove creator – packing in a synthesizer, sequencer, sampler and beat maker.Continue ReadingCateg… Continue reading Palm-sized Woovebox puts a powerful groove machine in your pocket

Stylophone Beat puts a portable groove machine in your pocket

Back in the late 1960s, creating music anywhere was made much easier with a now iconic toy-like pocket synth called the Stylophone. Now Dubreq is aiming to do the same for beat makers with a portable drum machine.Continue ReadingCategory: Music, Techno… Continue reading Stylophone Beat puts a portable groove machine in your pocket

Chorda puts powerful music creativity at your fingertips

Back in 2019, Artiphon launched a Kickstarter for a battery-powered handheld music-creation tool called the Orba. Now the company has returned to the platform with the Chorda, a portable synth, looper and MIDI controller shaped like a short guitar neck… Continue reading Chorda puts powerful music creativity at your fingertips

Compose Any Song With Twelve Buttons

Limitations placed on any creative process often paradoxically create an environment in which creativity flourishes. A simple overview of modern pop, rock, or country music illustrates this principle quite readily. …read more Continue reading Compose Any Song With Twelve Buttons

A More Expressive Synth via Flexure

A man sits in front of a wooden table. There is a black box with a number of knobs hand-labeled on blue painter's tape. A white breadboard with a number of wires protruding from it is visible on the box's left side. An oscilliscope is behind the black box and has a yellow waveform displaying on its screen.

Synthesizers can make some great music, but sometimes they feel a bit robotic in comparison to their analog counterparts. [Sound Werkshop] built a “minimum viable” expressive synth to overcome this …read more Continue reading A More Expressive Synth via Flexure

Roland makes flagship sound engine portable with FP-E50 digital piano

Roland has announced the launch of the FP-E50, a portable piano and creativity workstation that’s designed as an easy intro for beginners while including enough advanced features to keep the pros happy, including Roland’s flagship synthesis engine.Cont… Continue reading Roland makes flagship sound engine portable with FP-E50 digital piano