Hardware grooveboxes news
Akai Force 3.5 is now in public beta and brings MPC 3 functionality and compatibility with the latest Akai/Air Music Tech/NI plugin releases. Last July, Akai announced MPC 3, a massive free OS upgrade for […]
Superbooth 2025: Beatboxer Mosaik is a new live performance groove box from Berlin, developed by former Native Instruments and Nonlinear Labs devs. Many well-known music technology companies have their origins in Berlin, including Ableton, Bitwig, […]
Native Instruments Maschine+ 1.6.1 adds support for five effects plugins in standalone mode, adjustable sample & buffer size, and more. Maschine+ is not dead. That was the title of an article I wrote in February […]
Elektron Digitone II OS 1.10 is out now and brings overbridge support, new chords, and more to the FM groovebox. Like the Digitakt II, Elektron has today given its latest hardware Synthesizer, the Digitone II, […]
Contrary to what the community speculates, Maschine+ is not dead, and the 3.0 update with Kontakt 8 support and more is on the horizon. At NAMM 2025, Native Instruments announced an official partnership with Akai […]
Akai MPC 3.0 (3.4) is available now with a complete OS overhaul with new features and support for Native Instruments MPC Edition Play Series. Today, Akai Pro surprisingly announced a partnership with Native Instruments. They […]
NAMM 2025: Akai Pro has partnered up with Native Instruments to bring new features and exclusive sound content to the MPC platform. The modern beat production world consists of two camps: the Akai MPC and […]
Synthstrom Audible Deluge, a hardware groovebox with an open-source engine, previously New Zealand exclusive, now goes retail. The Deluge is one of the most comprehensive and creative hardware grooveboxes of recent years. Since the firmware […]
Man Behind The Machines Uranos is a new Reaktor-based Synthesizer that runs in Reaktor 6 and unofficially in the Maschine+ standalone groovebox. Last May at SynthFest France 2024, I reported on the Mariner Synthesizer by […]
Randomwaves Drumboy and Synthgirl are new creative open-source touch-based drum machine and synth instruments, now on Kickstarter. Synthesizers and electronic instruments, in general, are particularly popular in hardware because you can tweak them with tactile […]
Roland AIRA P-6 is a new compact, battery-powered creative sampler with live sampling capabilities and granular synthesis. Roland has not been at Superbooth for the last three years. However, in the past two years, they […]
Donner MEDO is a new portable battery-powered sampling groovebox playable via touch; it’s available now. Last year, I reported on the development of the Donner MEDO groovebox, which was successfully funded via Kickstarter. The concept […]
Air Sub Factory is a new versatile Synthesizer plugin for MPC hardware and software (VST/AU/AAX) that produces rich and thick basses for your tracks. A lot is going on at Akai this summer, especially with […]
teenage engineering EP-1320 Medieval takes its users to the sounds of the Middle Ages with the power of the EP series groovebox sampler. After many high-end priced devices, teenage engineering surprisingly returned in November 2023 […]
Akai Pro will supercharge its MPC hardware and software lineup with built-in stems separation technology in the sampler engine. Finally, the day is here. After the MPC Steam functionality was initially only available for the […]
Polyend Tracker Mini 2.0 firmware is out now, and it includes new synth and drum engines, more tracks, USB audio support, and more. At Superbooth 24, Polyend presented the Tracker+, the successor to the original […]
Superbooth 24: Polyend Tracker+ is the successor to the original Tracker groovebox, now in full stereo and with more features. The highlight at Polyend’s Superbooth 24 stand was the Tracker+. The company has also announced […]
Rainy Day Hailstorm is a new fascinating touchy portable groovebox with a hybrid sound engine from the designer Otem Rellik. Otem Rellik. This name is familiar to some readers. In recent years, the developer has […]
Blipblox myTRACKS, initially a NAMM 2022 news, is a sampling groovebox for kids and beyond from Playtime Engineering, the devs of the Blipblox synths—soonish on Kickstarter. Playtime Engineering does one thing differently than all other […]
Polyend has just published Tracker Mini 1.1, a new free firmware update that brings stereo line-in recording, extended sampling times, and more. The Tracker Mini is a Tracker-based portable, battery-powered groovebox with sampling and synthesis. […]
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