With Christmas around the corner and everyone and their granny’s looking to buy a new 25 key Midi Controller Keyboard, we thought we should offer some advice for those stuck in a decision of which keyboard is for them and which brand is the better brand.

If you’re new to production the name might not mean that much to you unless you have done your research.  Rob Papen and his development team have produced such a fabulous series of virtual instruments and plug-ins for your host production software. From Blue, RG to Predator and SubBoomBass – Rob Papen synths have helped [...]

Kore 2 is an innovative software come hardware package from Native Instruments, presenting a comprehensive library of production-ready sounds and effects with a very powerful hardware interface. Based on the sound engines incorporated in Reaktor, Massive, Absynth, FM8, Kontakt and Guitar Rig, the range of different sounds is huge, from sharp synths to warm orchestral [...]

With a box cover that portrays similarities to Daft Punk and artist recognition and beta testing from the likes of Deadmau5 and Chris Lake, FXpansion have brought us a collection of 3 alternative and amazing virtual synth’s.  These are a synth programmers dream coming as 3 seperate synth instruments and an extra instrument called Fusor [...]