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The Korg MicroSampler may have only been announced a couple of weeks ago, but Sonic State’s Nick Batt has already run the MicroSampler through its paces.
His overview video, above, offers a good look at the hardware itself and how the MicroSampler works.
Batt says:
The microSAMPLER is not going to be a sampling workhorse for you if [...]

Shure SM58 & SM57 mics have a reputation for being reliable to the point of being indestructible. 
Mats Stålbröst, editor of the Stockholm-based Studio, took that as a challenge and subjected a SM58 to a year of sadistic torture.
And here it is in all its awesome glory. 
He used the SM58 mic to hammer nails, dropped it from heights, [...]

Mike Levin has an interesting review in this month’s issue of Electronic Musician of Moog Music’s new Moog Guitar.
Is it worth the nearly six grand asking price?
Levin says:
Overall, I found the Moog Guitar to be an inspirational instrument. It opened up exciting new worlds of playing technique for me like no guitar I’ve ever played. [...]

Wired.com has a review of the Tonium Pacemaker Portable DJ Machine, and decides it’s cool, but an expensive toy:
The Tonium Pacemaker may be modeled after the idiot-proof iPod, but taking advantage of all the features on the Pacemaker requires an inordinate amount of button pushing. Fiddling around with it while sober requires a certain amount [...]

Probably no synth has been cloned more times, both in hardware and software, than the Roland TB303.
But while excellent hardware 303 clones (FR777) have been available for years, virtual versions have never been completely satisfying.
AudioRealism’s BassLine 2 changes that. It cranks out authentic 303 sounds, using a simple interface that will be familiar to 303 [...]

 

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If you’re looking for an easy way to inject something new into your Reason tracks, Zero-G’s The Big Reason may be the answer.
The Big Reason is a gargantuan package of over 6500 samples – over 4Gb of material. The collection is programmed for Propellerhead’s Reason as REX2, NN-19, NN-XT, Re-Drum, Malstrom, Subtractor and WAV files. [...]

 

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At the recent 2005 NAMM Expo, AXL Music was displaying a unique portable amp, the ThinAmp. It’s only 2″ thick, and weighs just five pounds, yet it packs 10 Watts of power, 18 built-in DSP effects, a three-band EQ, and twin speakers. It’s so unique, that it is helping to create a new class of [...]

Behringer is well-known for its ability to manufacture music technology inexpensively. Behringer gear often beats the prices of competitors by as much as 50%. They do this by focusing on the most important features, and designing their products to be inexpensive to manufacturer.
Until recently, though, Behringer did not have much of a presence in the [...]

Behringer has introduced the B-Control series, a line of MIDI hardware controllers with capabilities and pricing that positions them as price/performance leaders.
The devices are: the BCF2000, a MIDI controller with motorized faders; the BCR2000, a MIDI controller with dozens of rotary controls; and the BCA2000, a multi-channel Audio/MIDI control interface. Each of the units in [...]