Making music isn’t all about the controlled environment of the studio. Editing, mixing and mastering your music is all well and good, but at some point you are going to need to venture out into the live arena to meet your public face to face. You may need any number of controllers, CD decks, synths and mixers to help you get your sound across. If you are a musician, a DJ, or both, here we recommend ten of the best pieces of this year’s live gear that will help you connect with your audience.
10 Best: Live/DJ Equipment 2012
by Juno Plus on 18.12.2012 at 16:06pm10 Best: Studio Equipment 2012
by Juno Plus on 11.12.2012 at 11:54am
If you are a DJ, producer or a musician, then it is safe to say that at some point you have made use of a studio, be it a small bedroom set-up or a huge multi tracking hub.
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Review: Dave Smith Instruments Mopho x4
by Juno Plus on 27.09.2012 at 18:03pm
Dave Smith brings us the polyphonic sibling to the hugely popular monophonic Mopho synthesizer. So how snugly does the Mopho x4 fit into the Dave Smith family?
Dave Smith announces Mopho x4
by Juno Plus on 06.08.2012 at 14:51pm
Dave Smith Instruments have just announced details of the latest addition to their family of analogue gear, the Mopho x4.
Dave Smith Tempest review
by Juno Download on 12.12.2011 at 17:20pmThe “Father Of MIDI” Dave Smith has been making synths since the 70s. He founded his own company, Sequential Circuits, and created the world’s first microprocessor-based musical instrument, the first programmable polyphonic synth in the form of the Prophet 5 and wrote the low-level optimized floating point synthesis code.
Dave Smith preview The Tempest
by Juno Download on 08.09.2011 at 11:40am
Dave Smith Instruments has announced that the wait for the eagerly anticipated Tempest drum machine is nearly over, with small batches of the module shipping imminently.
10 Best: Analogue Synths
by Juno Plus on 30.08.2011 at 09:40am
In today’s world it’s becoming increasingly difficult to identify a true analogue synthesizer and even more so to choose the one that caters for your individual needs. Analogue modeling, true analogue signal path and DSP are just some of the confusing terms that the manufacturers throw about, so in this article our resident caped-crusader dissects the attributes of our ten most popular analogue synthesizers, helping you to decide which knobs you should be twiddling.
