Native Instruments Maschine Mikro – Exclusive First Look DV Magazine get a world exclusive, hands-on look at the new Maschine Mikro from Native Instruments By Paul Dakeyne | Friday September 9, 2011 0
The Maschine Trinity From Native Instruments Native Instruments today announce the Maschine Trinity – including the all new Maschine Mikro hardware and iApp wonders of iMaschine By Paul Dakeyne | Monday September 5, 2011 0
Rob Papen Punch Dutch synth programmer extraordinaire, Rob Papen has just announced his new synthetic and sample based drum VSTi – Punch! By Paul Dakeyne | Wednesday January 12, 2011 0
Teenage Engineering OP-1 – Back Once Again… It’s back again at the NAMM show – but still not available to purchase. C’mon Teenage Engineering, what’s the story with your (“mini-wunder-synth-sampler-thingy”), OP-1 By Paul Dakeyne | Tuesday January 11, 2011 0
FXpansion Geist – Materialising Soon FXpansion Geist has arrived – and it seems to be so much more than just ‘Guru 2′ – is it a small DAW or one of the best standalone or plugin, ‘all-in-one’ music production solutions? By Paul Dakeyne | Wednesday November 24, 2010 0
Elektron Octatrack Dynamic Performance Sampler The Elektron Octatrack offers a next generation experience of dynamic performance sampling – DV Mag checks out the latest info on this units feature set and see if we have a ‘game changer’ here? By Paul Dakeyne | Monday November 1, 2010 1
MOTU BPM Complete Beat Production Software review – part three Reaching this, the third and final installment of our DV247 Blog’s MOTU BPM review, today we’re digging deeper into more creative functionality of this complete beat production software. Looki By Paul Dakeyne | Monday June 28, 2010 0
MOTU BPM Complete Beat Production Software Review – Part One The contemporary DJ/Producer/Musician or Artist has numerous weapons of choice these days when it comes to drums, percussion and all things related. Some solutions, whether software or hardware a By Paul Dakeyne | Thursday June 24, 2010 0
Native Instruments Maschine 1.5 Released I first blogged here at DV247 about Native Instruments Maschine back in February ’09, and since then, this perfectly unified meeting of hardware and software has garnered followers, fans and user By Paul Dakeyne | Monday April 19, 2010 0
Korg Kaossilator Pro launches at NAMM 2010 The Korg Kaossilator Pro has arrived at NAMM, introducing itself as a hybrid of the manufacturer’s massively popular mini DJ tech-tool the Kaossilator, blended with the creative sampling power of By Paul Dakeyne | Thursday January 14, 2010 0
Teenage Engineering OP-1 Synth Controller This is the Teenage Engineering OP-1: a quirky little device which appeared on t’interweb around a year ago. You’d be forgiven in thinking it was just a prototype experiment from a group of young By Paul Dakeyne | Tuesday January 12, 2010 1
Akai MPC2500SE White Special Edition The new Akai MPC2500SE: Yes it’s white, yes it’s a limited edition, but yes, gawd-dang-it, it’s an MPC through and through. Kill joys and bah humbug merchants may shout ‘novelty’ and even ask why By Paul Dakeyne | Tuesday December 1, 2009 0
Akai MPK25 – Battery Powered Beats! Back in the 90′s, the management company who ran the studio’s I spent most of my time in, started to represent a few notable American DJ/Producers. Although I was a seasoned advocate of Akai S100 By Paul Dakeyne | Wednesday July 15, 2009 0