The cool looking MP-7 is a desktop sequencer module version of E-mu’s Mo’Phatt HipHop and R&B sound module. You may recall that the Mo’Phatt module itself was a new and improved Urban Dance and Hip Hop synth based on the popular Planet Phatt module. Like the Mo’Phatt, the MP-7 uses the same sample-playback synthesis engine [...]

The tone generator of the MS2000/MS2000R uses a DSP-powered analog modeling system. The analog modeling system acclaimed on the KORG Prophecy, Z1, and Electribe series has been refined to produce an incredibly wide range of sounds. From sharply cutting to powerful and thick, all the awesome sonic power that can be produced only by DSP [...]

The most famous sound of the old XBase09 was actually the kick drum.
Now the the kick of the XBASE 888 has got an adjustable pitch envelope. With this you can create 808-like slow pitch decays. The decay time constant is changed.
The compression parameter is useful to control between a 909-style ultra compressed envelope or an [...]

The Kaoss Pad was already the best effects unit on the market and a favorite among many working DJs, now the KP3 has come through and just made everything better. It is an excellent effects unit for live DJ sets with its ease of use, hands-on control and countless effects options. Use the sampler to [...]

The Virus TI Snow features 3 oscillators and one sub-oscillator per voice. The main oscillators can be classic analog-style oscillators (saw, square, sine waves, etc) hypersaw, wavetable, graintable, or formant oscillators.
Two independent filters (lowpass, highpass, bandpass and bandstop) with an optional saturation module offer classic Moog-style sounds and a variety of other 1-4 pole filter [...]

The Orb is a single-track, step-based digital sequencer capable of controlling analog CV/Gate as well as MIDI synthesizers. As a bonus, it also works as a MIDI to CV converter, so that you can use any MIDI keyboard, controller or sequencer to control CV/Gate analog synths.
Orb’s rounded layout was purposely designed to be visually [...]

“The Electribe-S is excellent and is complemented by synth-like controls for filtering, pitch and effects and a great loop-based sequencer. It can get up to 95 seconds of sampling time, and the sounds are “as fat and gritty as ever”. There are 11 effects plus delay that you can apply while sampling, a feature that [...]

So after about a week of research, including trolling through producer and gear slut forums, I settled on purchasing my first desktop analog synth. The voice architecture is identical to a single voice of the Prophet ‘08, but with a couple of unique twists to distinguish it from its award-winning sibling. Mopho is fully programmable [...]

The Future Retro Revolution is a true analog monophonic synthesizer with an easy to use step-based digital sequencer, analog and DSP effects processing, and various interfacing for controlling MIDI, CV/Gate, and Din Sync devices. The synth is housed in a rugged aluminum chassis with aluminum side panels, a high contrast white on gun metal grey [...]

The Waldorf Blofeld has a sleek user interface with a huge LCD display giving you precise visual feedback. Seven endless rotaries plus a volume knob all made of steel. The engine inside the heavy duty, full metal chassis of the Blofeld delivers the same fat and rich sound of Waldorf’s Pulse, Q, Q+, Micro Q, [...]