Akai is following Teenage Engineering and Casio with a new portable sampler.

Retailer Alto Music has leaked a new portable sampler by Akai that looks inspired by the company’s MPC60 and MPC3000, according to Synth Anatomy. The streamlined $399 Akai MPC Sample will pair 16 pads ...
Cult of Mac

How to use the OP-Z’s new sampler with your iPhone

Teenage Engineering’s awesome, pocket-size OP-Z synth can now record and use samples. Thanks to a massive software update, it can now sample live audio in through its mic, or via its USB-C port. And ...
Engadget

Teenage Engineering's OP-1 Field is a big refresh with a big price tag

Teenage Engineering (TE) has unveiled the successor to its popular OP-1 portable synth sampler, the $2,000 OP-1 Field, which it calls "louder, thinner and 100 times better." That relates to the fact ...
MusicRadar

Music technology gear of the year 2024: The 10 best new synths, samplers and drum machines

2024 has been a great year for new music making gear. As it comes to a close, we’re counting down our top 10 music tech instruments of the past 12 months. You can watch them all in action in our video ...
MusicRadar

Critter & Guitari's Organelle S2 can be anything you want it to be: synth, sampler, sequencer, drum machine, effects unit and more

A self-contained music computer built to run Pure Data patches, Organelle has just been updated with a faster processor and a handful of hardware tweaks When you purchase through links on our site, we ...