Yamaha’s Seqtrak is a tiny, portable music studio that makes beat-making fast and fun, even for beginners. It's my most-used ...

The sample-focused DAW gets an MPC-like hands-on interface.

With brooding, chiseled, matinee-idol-meets-Italian-menswear-model looks plus infectious songs about love and loss, sombr is ubiquitous.

For the uninitiated, quantize is the semi-automatic process of locking anything you record into your DAW to a pre-ordained timing grid, meaning that all of your tracks snap together in perfect ...

An collector's edition of "Twilight," zombie plant seeds, a cleaning go-kart, and other must-see gifts for this holiday ...

Explore some of the best MIDI keyboards on Amazon for beginners, studio work, and live performances. Choose from compact ...

This compact wireless keyboard from Cherry is fully mechanical and is a serious rival to Apple's Magic Keyboard thanks to the ...

Promising to squeeze Oberheim-style sound into a compact and portable package, UB-1 Micro is described by Behringer as the ...

If you live in a major city, you’ve probably seen a street performer with some variety of slapophone. It’s a simple musical instrument that typically uses different lengths of PVC pipe ...

I’ve dealt with neck pain since my early 20s. Becoming a full-time writer in my late 30s did not help matters. I discovered the concept of a split ergonomic keyboard and wondered whether one could ...

The Lowfree Flow84 is the latest episode in my on-again, off-again love affair with mechanical keyboards. I describe it ...