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"It costs too much and we don't need it but, yes, we really do want one": Teenage Engineering OP-XY review
It's a mobile music-making and performing wonder, but two grand can get you an awful lot other studio gear
NAMM 2025: Nord’s Piano 6 promises “greater flexibility for performance and sound creation”
The latest version of the iconic red piano offers advanced synth and piano layering, better hands-on control and enhanced effects
NAMM 2025: It’s a Stylophone, but not as we know it - CPM DS-2 is a compact, portable analogue drone synth that's now available to order
Out with the stylus, in with the serious synthesis
The MiniKorg 700S finally lives up to its name as Korg releases a downsized version
The archetypal ‘secondary keyboard’ gets a mini makeover
NAMM 2025: Korg’s revived Kronos promises faster operation and fresh sounds
Korg’s beloved workstation returns, but some might be disappointed by the apparent lack of new features
NAMM 2025: The Multi/Poly returns in module form – it’s still great, and we still think Korg is underselling it
One of 2024’s best instruments returns, minus the keyboard
“The biggest and best all-in-one modular step sequencer, offering flexibility and playability”: Analogue Solutions AS500-SEQ review
Step on with this sequencing Colossus from Analogue Solutions
NAMM 2025: XILS-lab promises "virtual Vangelis" with its new Yamaha CS-80 emulation
The Eighty expands the potential of Yamaha's storied '70s classic with a third synth layer, expanded modulation options and extra effects
“It just doesn’t sound like anything else”: Howard Jones finally has a Prophet-5
Better late than never
"We’re here to break the barriers and put powerful instruments into the hands of real musicians, not collectors": Here's the 2025 update on all the synths and drum machines that Behringer has announced that aren't in the shops yet
The controversial company has teased a huge number of reimagined products and some of its own designs, too. Here's where everything's at...