E-mu revolutionized music sampling with their legendary Emulator series, from Emulator I to Emax, each model pushing technological boundaries. As competitors caught up, the digital music landscape transformed. Musicians transitioned from 8 and 12-bit samplers to high-fidelity digital workstations, with E-mu's final Proteuses in the very early 2000s marking a nostalgic endpoint in their innovative journey. Creative Labs ultimately sealed the company's fate, bringing an end to an iconic era of music technology. Here is the list of all E-mu samplers of the 4th generation, including its sub-generations.

On October 10, Novation released a new SL MkIII controller, which gives a lot of possibilities both in controlling hardware devices and even entire setups, and in controlling digital workstations. In addition to the rich functionality, the device is quite ergonomic and has a good keyboard and a sufficient number of controls.

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.

The electronic musical instruments market is very large nowadays, so the device selection can become a problem for beginner musicians who decided to give up virtual plugins and get a hardware setup, as it is difficult not to drown in the variety of options and find affordable instruments with wide functionality. We have analyzed the market and are ready to provide you with our view on the ideal inexpensive digital setup, which is suitable both for live performances and for the studio.

The management of the Japanese company has been sticking to the rule of “leaving analog in the past” for a long time. But it’s the market which rules and that’s why we did get JD-XA and JD-Xi from Roland, and now SE-02 analog monophonic synthesizer module created together with the eminent Studio Electronics company is getting its way through. Roland emphasized that this is only the beginning of a new series called Roland Boutique Designer. Read more about the Roland’s fight back to Mr. Dave Smith&Pioneer DJ Toraiz AS-1 and eventually Behringer D rackmount synth module.