The incomparable Hartmann 20 featuring striking technical solutions is finally shipping – are you ready to become a lucky owner? We’ve waited for a long time, Axel Hartmann has beaten his way through copies and now he doesn’t care whether anyone actually likes his creature – the thing is he loves it. Well, that’s kind of a situation when selfishness is healthy. And absolutely justified.

Taiho Yamada is a sound engineer and he always knows how to impress. He developed the sound engine for M-Audio Venom, worked with Alesis (Andromeda A6, Quadrasynth and QS series). He kept silence since Venom happened to be underrated and when some work on software synths was finished. But NAMM 2017 revealed the name of Yamada’s own brand – MOK. Together with Alesis MOK has prepared a futuristic sound concept and we’re going to tell you a little bit about it.

Perfect Circuit Audio shop which offers a great synth selection announced the beginning of the auction a week ago. And you know what has been put up for it? Technos Acxel! That resynthesizer from the 1980s – the wonderwork designed by Pierre Guilmette and Nil Parent. And that’s what Technos Acxel actually does – it re-synthesize sound (which was a huge innovation back in the day). Today the instrument costs about $20 000 and it’s no surprise because a working Acxel unit is in tremendous demand – the resynthesizer appeared to have no need in questing after its target audience.

Axel Hartmann announced the date when his long-awaited virtual analog synth Hartmann 20 comes into production. The release of this mega synthesizer was planned to hit June 2016 but was postponed due to some bug “hunt”. Eventually the creators let us know that the development process is going to the finish line and that now it sounds the way a €20 000 instrument should (taxes not included ;). All who want (or all who can) may pre-order it right now.