Hardware Reviews & News

Hardware Reviews & News
Best SSD for making music

Best SSDs For The Money

Regular readers of the Making Music Newsletter will know we've discussed the pros and cons of SSDs - Solid State Drives - for use...
Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator Review

Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator Review

PO-12 / PO-14 / PO-20 (rrp £55) Buy in the UK | Buy in the USA My first introduction to the world of Teenage Engineering was...
Bastl Kastle synth

Bastle Kastle synth – it’s here!

I've been wanting to tinker with analog synthesizers since accidentally watching the module synth documentary 'I dream of wires' on Netflix.  I've been a...
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Studiospares S300 Ribbon Microphone unboxing

That ‘classic, warm ribbon mic sound’ has, so far, been out of my reach financially for a number of years. Recently, several manufacturers have...
Arturia KeyLab Essentials

Arturia launches range of low-cost MIDI controller keyboards

Arturia Keylab Essential keyboards to provide everything you need to start creating and recording music in one neat package French hardware and software creators Arturia have...
Arturia Step Black Edition

Arturia goes ‘none more black’ with Step range

Increasingly popular hardware manufacturers and software developers Arturia have revealed a limited edition of their KeyStep and BeatStep range.  Musicians will be able to...
Arturia MiniLab MK 2

Review: Arturia MiniLab Mk II MIDI controller keyboard

Arturia’s continuing advance into the hardware market knows no bounds and their new, portable controller definitely punches above its weight. Seemingly packed with everything...
Bastl DUDE

Bastl announce 5 channel mixer – DUDE

These days there's a whole lot of musicians using what years ago may have been unkindly called 'lo-fi' synths.  The raging popularity of the Korg...
Studiospares S300 review

Review: Studiospares S300 Ribbon Microphone

From: studiospares.com RRP: £87.00 Cost (at time of writing): £59.00 (inc VAT) What are Ribbon Microphones? Originally designed for the film industry at the dawn of the ‘talkies’,...