Inexpensive, portable hardware for electronic music usually comes short on the features. A beginner 25-key MIDI keyboard, for example, isn’t going to get you very far towards making big music, even if ...

Designed to "capture the essence of classic sequencing with the flexibility of modern modular workflow", BQ-10 brings MIDI ...

MIDI sequencers are surprisingly expensive, making them an excellent target for [RH Electronics] who has created a sixteen-step device. It supports up to eight playable parts per step, which can be ...

PreSonus’s Atom SQ is a MIDI pad controller that promises to be all things to all producers, offering a suitable surface for TR-style drum programming, triggering loops, playing keyboard parts and ...

ISLA Instruments have created a new MIDI chord generator which also can be used as a step sequencer and arpeggiator that takes the form of the KordBot, which allows you to store thousands of chords ...

Korg’s SQ-1 is a bit under appreciated. It’s a simple and affordable two track eight step sequencer. It can play nice with Korg’s analog and semi modular fair like the MS-20 Mini as well as eurorack ...

Step sequencers are fantastic instruments, but they can be a little, well, repetitive. At it’s core, the step sequencer is a pretty simple device: it loops through a series of notes or phrases that ...

For hardware synth and drum machine enthusiasts, there are two controllers that stand above most of the competition: Arturia’s KeyStep and BeatStep Pro. Their combination of USB, MIDI and control ...

A physical (8 x 6) step sequencer that uses marbles to trigger samples. A physical (8 x 6) step sequencer that uses marbles to trigger samples. Ball Beats: great little device, less than stellar name.

The great thing about musical hardware is that you can admire it as a musician, recognizing how useful it might be to create awesome new tracks, or merely as someone who likes buttons and knobs.

Version 1.1 of Numerology Level 1, a modular MIDI sequencer for Mac OS X, is now available for download at the Five12 Web site. Numerology uses sequencing techniques first established by analog ...

A hardware device or software application that is used to compose, edit and play MIDI sound sequences. Media player applications can play MIDI sound files, but creating and modifying MIDI files ...