Music Tech Reviews

Continuing its Japanese homage, Cherry Audio reignites three of Roland’s finest synths from the '70s, in a single soft-synth with plenty of reinvention

Akai refines its classic MIDI keyboard and finally ditches the joystick

Want to improve your headphone monitoring? We might just have the perfect solution

Polyend turns its considerable hardware tracker skills to the world of pedal-based, sequenced multi-effects. An alluring combo, so how does it sound?

Is Hexdrums – a “Mutant-infused analogue powerhouse” – the perfect rhythmic bedrock for modern techno production?

Quality closed-back headphones that can handle both recording and mixing are highly desirable. Can this new design deliver? Let’s take a look

The Apple Creator Studio bundle is here, and that means new versions of the company’s classic DAW

We associate AKG with quality mics, but can their new and most affordable mics to date really deliver? Let’s find out

One model has dominated the on ear headphone market for years. Let’s see what these new arrivals have to offer

The trailblazing soft synth that we’d all but given up hope on has made a glorious comeback, but how does Absynth fit into a changed music production landscape?