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

Simmons SDS7 Cymbal Module fitted with 2085 EPROM Expander

11.02

video upload by The Simmons Guy

Modular Drums & percussion Simmons

Read at MatrixSynth ↗

IndustryHercules debuts Modular Clamp-On Mic Arm System with Craig Blundell MMR

MakersYamaha EAD50 Electronic Acoustic Drum Module Wins the GRAND AWARD at GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2026 Trova™ Casual Wind Instrument Wins Gold Award; Six Yamaha Products and Product Series Receive Awards Yamaha Music News

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

Simmons SDS7 Cymbal Module fitted with 2085 EPROM Expander

Related

IndustryHercules debuts Modular Clamp-On Mic Arm System with Craig Blundell MMR

MakersYamaha EAD50 Electronic Acoustic Drum Module Wins the GRAND AWARD at GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2026 Trova™ Casual Wind Instrument Wins Gold Award; Six Yamaha Products and Product Series Receive Awards Yamaha Music News

SynthsCinematic soundscape | Vhikk X, PlayFader, Qu-Bit modules, and more MatrixSynth

SynthsAkai EWI 3020M Sound Module SN 39615-03140 MatrixSynth

SynthsYamaha Motif Rack XS Multi-Tambral Sound Module SN UAQN01045 MatrixSynth

SynthsQuad Arpeggiator - Solo on the Modular MatrixSynth