Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.

← XLR MAG Archive

MatrixSynthSynths

3rd Party Unofficial Sequential Prophet‑5 / Prophet‑10 Rev4 Firmware Mods

October 14

via GitHub prophet-rev4-modsversion 2.3.0An arpeggiator and a polyphonic step sequencer for the Sequential Prophet‑5 / Prophet‑10 Rev4, added to Sequential's own Main OS 2.1.0 as a firmware patch.

Synths DIY New Updates News Sequential

Read at MatrixSynth ↗

Also covered by: Synthtopia

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

3rd Party Unofficial Sequential Prophet‑5 / Prophet‑10 Rev4 Firmware Mods

Related

SynthsKASSER SYNTHS: Data science on 93,000+ Sega Genesis FM presets | Ludo2026 talk MatrixSynth

SynthsLeak: Roland Jupiter-08 & N/Vision Wavetable? MatrixSynth

SynthsSigned Oberheim TEO-5 Giveaway MatrixSynth

SynthsEver wanted to get your hands on one of the legendary vintage ARP synthesizers? MatrixSynth

SynthsPolyArp + Sequential OB-6 | 3:1 Polyrhythmic Arpeggios (Live Demo) MatrixSynth

SynthsThe Filternator from Kanawha Music & Art - vintage-inspired resonator MatrixSynth