To celebrate 909 day, Matthew from Extralife Instruments (maker of the Super Sixteen eurorack sequencer) has built a free, open-source analog drum synth you can play in your web browser. It’s called ER-99 and it works best on desktop devices. Here’s the details direct from Matthew… You can program patches and sequences on the web interface and save them […]
Roland has announced the latest addition to the Legendary series of software-based Roland instruments available through Roland Cloud. In early 2021 — 30 years after the debut of the original JD-800 hardware synth — Roland introduced the JD-800 Model Expansion for the ZENOLOGY software synthesizer and select ZEN-CORE hardware instruments. Now, the anniversary celebration continues with the […]
This past days we have been treated with two new exciting updates – one from Reason Studios and one from Roland. Reason 12 had a big goal of upgrading the Rack experience. It comes with a redesigned Combinator that is more customizable that allows the user to change the panel size, knobs, faders, buttons and […]
Here at Stereoklang we’ve had the Roland TR-8S since day one of its release and so far it has become the goto-product when it comes to beat generation. And for those lucky enough to have one Roland, in sweet timing relative to the official 808-day, released a new firmware update. TEGEL on the Stereoklang label […]
After putting a lot of effort into strengthening its hardware portfolio with the launches of the MC-707 and MC-101 grooveboxes, new Fantom workstation keyboards, Jupiter-X synthand JU-06A synth, Roland is now stepping back into the software realm with the launch of Zenbeats, a cross-platform production app that promises to “make music creation easy” Zenbeats is built on Stagelight, the music-making […]
Although many artists have been experimenting with vocals since long time back, like Kraftwerk, ABBA and the Beatles, the real breaking point came when Cher delivered Believe in October 19, 1998. The era of autotune was born. Since then the impact of autotune has been monumental in the music industry. More or less every conceivable […]
If you still have not decided whether to go for Roland’s new drum / rhythm machine, we are pretty sure you will be convince after watching this video with Steffi. No talk, no commercial bullshit just pure awesome rhythms. Dutch-born Steffi is a major force in contemporary electronic music, and by the way did we […]
We have all seen Behringer’s recurrent announcements on new upcoming synth clones, but how many will de facto materialize. Recent information suggests that Behringer are struggling with their Minimoog clone and that delays are to be expected. This message came recently: “Please allow me to clarify that the first batch of Model D’s had arrived […]
Well, not sure if we will ever see the famous keytar re-emerge on stage but it sure looks like Roland is well on its way to bring the classic SH-101 back into it line up of Boutique synths. First spotted in a video published on Instagram Story by Nick de Friez it is quite clear from […]
Avoid spending thousands of dollars on expensive hardware or software gear or simply feel like killing time at work? The world, or rather the web, is full of browser based instruments that can be used for free and in this feature we will guide you to the best ones. Needless to say we are somewhat […]
Although you can find more or less anything for free these days on the web it often comes with a price; donation ware, one month free trial, limited functionality etc. But there are really good stuff out there and this time around we will link you to five different places where you can find five […]