Dan 'JD73' Goldman

Yamaha made some interesting YC-badged transistor combo organs back in the '70s and the Reface YC is a throwback to those heady times.

Yamaha had one of the finest sounding VA engines around in 1997's AN1X (that still stands up today) and it's great to see Yamaha making synths once again.

Although Clavia/Nord has been at the forefront of electro-mechanical piano emulations recently with the Electro/Stage series, Yamaha's full-sized CP range is still very highly regarded too.

Despite DSI making some fantastic synths over the last few years, there has been a conspicuous hole in its line-up left by the original Prophet-5.

Akai's latest range of controllers, the Advance Series, falls into a new category of the keyboard controller market, largely created by the launch of Native Instrument's Komplete Kontrol S-series

The first synth from Modor

The latest of Korg's kit synths

The JD-Xi couples a real analogue monosynth to Roland's SuperNatural sound engine

Sequencers are all the rage again and surprisingly Korg hasn't made a dedicated sequencer for a long time

Korg's much-hyped Odyssey recreation is finally with us. But does it live up to the anticipation?

The less-than-mellow yellow synth returns

Run down by the pack?

Following on from Akai's entry-level sample player (the MPX8), Akai now has a bigger brother to add to the range and the MPX16 improves on the MPX8 in several ways

The Triton Taktile 49 includes a plethora of real-time controls and sounds. We try it out...

The Pro 2 borrows heavily from the Prophet 12, whilst offering up some uniquely tasty treats!

30 years on, Korg has a successor to its RK100 keytar

The Analog RYTM is Elektron's third 'Analog' badged product. Does it live up to the hype?

Following the MS-20 mini comes a full-size MS-20 in kit form

The Nord Lead A1 offers a stripped down interface, designed to make sound creation a breeze

Yamaha are calling it their "best stage piano ever". Does it live up to the hype?

Studiologic's Numa Stage has a large keyboard, bread and butter sounds and MIDI controller features

Roland's latest workstation places an emphasis on performance

It's been three years since we reviewed the MOX range and now for 2014, the improved MOXF range has arrived

KROSS is Korg's new entry-level workstation range, picking up where the X50 and PS60 left off

The latest Nord Lead is here and while it looks very familiar, much has changed under the hood