Looks like Akai has finally decided to try and tie-in their legendary MPC machines with today’s popular laptop production techniques. I am very interested in reading the reviews of this when it comes out later this year and comparing it to NI’s Maschine. Read More »

So I’ve been meaning to write a post about the latest release of Reason by Propellerheads. For those of you who don’t know, Reason is a music making software that has been written off as a “toy” when it was first released back in 2000-2001. It’s a virtual studio that has everything you need to make electronic music, drum machines, soft synths, effects boxes, etc. Another reason producers ignored it was it’s lack of support for VST plugins and it’s lack of ability to edit or record live audio (reason is midi based). Read More »