Three years ago, Expressive E embarked on an ambitious adventure by opening the pre-orders for their standalone synthesizer, Osmose.Osmose elevates a playerʼs experience by introducing a new landscape of features for musicians to interact with sound and produce music in new ways. It does this while not only respecting, but…
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Squarp Hapax: The Sequencer Powerhouse For The Next Decade?
When Squarp came out with their Pyramid hardware sequencer, almost a decade ago, we were among the first publications to realize this new French company had something really special in their hands. Some years later Squarp entered the Eurorack arena with their Hermod compact sequencer first, and then with Rample…
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Ableton Live 11- Is It Worth the Upgrade?
When I think of Ableton Live, it inhabits a different space in my mind to the more ‘standard’ DAWs for recording, arranging and mixing music. I consider Live as more of an instrument combined with DAW – somewhere that the process of recording is creatively applied to shape the music…
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Newfangled Audio Generate Review: Chaotic Yet Musical
Newfangled Audio was started by Dan Gillespie after 15 years of writing DSP for Eventide (if you would like to know more about his work with the iconic effect company, check out our interview with Dan Gillespie). Generate, released a couple of months ago, is Newfangled Audio’s first commercial software…
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Buchla Easel Command Meets Sensel Morph – Performance and Tutorial
2020 hasn’t exactly been a great year so far (understatement of the century, I know), but when it comes to our beloved synthesizers there have been some pretty exciting news and releases. One of them is definitely Buchla’s brilliant Easel Command, a “newly updated 208C in a standalone desktop form…
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Here’s Osmose, The New Augmented Synthesizer From Expressive E and Haken Audio
After decades of stagnation, keyboard players looking for new, expressive tools to make music are enjoying a new era. In the past few years, the ROLI Seaboard series and Roger Linn’s Linnstrument (just to mention two well-known products) have brought a breath of fresh air. Now it’s time for Expressive…