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We’ve talked a lot about Expert Sleepers’ products in recent months.

The Disting is an analog Eurorack module from the Expert Sleepers that I see in almost everyone’s system.

Early this year, I found myself in the market for a lightweight pad controller that was affordable and portable, but also flexible and expressive. After looking at a lot of different options that were either too limited, bulky or expensive, I found the BopPad.

My MIDI days stretch back far enough that I remember trends and styles coming and going. That said, I’m always on the lookout for elegant and simple controllers with a lot of sliders/pots, plug & play and basically zero config. I ran across two recent boxes from Nakedboards – they’re a great, cost-effective solution for Max users looking for a trusty toolbox controller.

If you’ve got a hankering to put on your own expansive laser show in the comfort of your own hub or the local club or gallery, I’ve got just the thing for you: Maxwell - an application that allows you to interface, shape, control and produce visuals that can be translated not just to laser output, but recorded to ILDA-compatible files for playback or VJing or producing visuals, even without a laser.

Introduction Often, when we think of the things that Max does best, we think about creating things on our laptops, maybe with hardware contr...

A few months ago, I wrote up an article about a few guitar-oriented audio interfaces, including units by IK Multimedia and Behringer.

It isn’t very often that a single instrument will affect an entire generation of musician/composers, but the original Synclavier digital ...

Mutable Instruments announced that they were retiring one of the stalwart modules of modern Eurorack analog systems: the Braids digital macro-oscillator. We’d like to offer a eulogy for this highly influential device.

Expressive E’s Touché is a multidimensional controller with a generous range of I/O capped off with a slick computer interface for even more finite control, and the ability to load/save and modify a huge amount presets onto the Touché, then unplug and go.