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Welcome to the 2017 Sonic Joy awards! As you probably know by now, the Sonic Joy awards are our humble tribute to the music tech industry. It
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news
Launchpad for iOS gets a huge design update today! With nearly 8 million downloads, Launchpad is one of the biggest music-making apps on the iOS App Store. This
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iOS
It’s even easier now to create (and finish) music with the latest version of Groovebox for iPhone and iPad, from Amplify (the new name for the Novation spin-off,
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news
At the Superbooth exhibition Novation also revealed Circuit Mono Station, a next-generation sequenced monosynth, following the release of Circuit in October 2015. Circuit Mono Station builds on the
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news
Novation has chosen the Superbooth exhibition as the best place to launch Peak, a polyphonic synthesiser that is destined to be the brand’s leading synth. Peak’s design consultant
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news
The Focusrite Group today announced that the XLN Audio Addictive Keys virtual instrument is now included for free with all Focusrite interfaces and selected Novation products. Addictive Keys
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hardware reviews
Welcome to our 2016 Sonic Joy awards for the Best Fun Boxes category. Now, you might ask, what the h**l is a fun box? Well, under this category
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deals
Blocs Wave, the intuitive and fun iOS app (see our Blocs Wave review), keeps getting better with each new release. As of yesterday, Blocs x Novation introduced ‘Launchpad
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music
Our friends at Point Blank are offering the chance to win a producer bundle worth over £1,300 – all you need to do is subscribe to the PB
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iOS
We recently covered Blocs Wave, the interesting looping app created by the Blocs team. This collective of engineers and designers grew out of Focusrite & Novation, where they
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iOS
Getting on track Writer’s block. We all suffer from this dreaded affliction at times. Those first words, or in the case of the musician, those first notes. They
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hardware reviews
Third and final part of our Novation Launchpad special: in the first two articles we asked a hacker (Matt di Fonzo) and an artist (Madeleine Bloom) to share
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software reviews
2009 in a few words? A cool year for sound-design tools, as well as for reverbs. Hardware outboard emulations never sounded so good (unfortunately prices in most cases
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interviews
Our previous article focused on the hacking side of the Launchpad. This time we’d like to offer a different point of view, the performer’s one. Madedeleine Bloom is
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interviews
Novation’s Launchpad has caused quit a stir since its launch: it’s a compact, light, functional grid-based controller for Ableton Live, with a hard-to-beat price tag (yes, it’s made
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