Today we will tell you about the news that Behringer company brought to Knobcon 2018, namely about two clones of the legendary drum machines of the 80s - TR-808 and TR-909 (RD-808 and RD-909 respectively).

The creators of Deckard's Dream and Kijimi shared a teaser of their new Xerxes synthesizer at the Synthposium 5 festival in Moscow on August 29, 02.09.09.

August 31, the Dave Smith Instruments company held a rebranding, timed to the 40th anniversary of their iconic musical instrument Prophet-5. From now on the company itself is called Sequential again, and all the subsequent pruducts will be produced under that label.

Nowadays, the market of electronic musical instruments is extremely large, so for beginners who have decided to acquire a hardware setup, the choice of instruments becomes a problem, as it is difficult not to drown in the variety of options and find inexpensive devices with a wide range of functions. Last time we offered you a setup of three digital instruments, now it's time to dig into the analog instruments market and figure out which ones are worth buying for the widest possible range of features and the least amount of money.

On June 22-23, the 17th annual Gearfest 2018 festival was held in Fort Wayne (Indiana). More than 430 producers presented their products there and answered visitors' questions, in addition, the festival had memorable performances and interesting lectures and master classes.