Little Music Blog

May 2, 2026

Erica Synths Bullfrog Drums: A 909-Inspired Sampling Drum Machine for Learners and Pros

Erica Synths and Richie Hawtin have unveiled the Bullfrog Drums, a 7-track sampling drum machine with a 909-style interface, 64 MB of sample memory, a...

April 29, 2026

Behringer LM Drum: Living with the LinnDrum Tribute

A few personal thoughts on the Behringer LM Drum - a hybrid 12-bit sampling drum machine that revisits Roger Linn's classic LinnDrum, with analog filt...

April 26, 2026

Rorschach: When Your Synth Starts Drawing

The Rorschach from Lumatic Visual Devices is a compact analog-style video synthesizer that turns audio signals, gates, and CV into shifting black and ...

April 23, 2026

Plinky 12: One Device, Three Touch Instruments

Plinky 12 is a collaborative touch synthesizer from Alex Evans, Making Sound Machines, and Toadstool Tech. Its standout feature is a set of three swap...

April 20, 2026

Gene Synths CHROMAGENE: Two Halves, One Lovely Mess

The CHROMAGENE by Gene Synths is a hand-made all-analog polyphonic synthesizer built around a split architecture - eight conventional voices on one si...

April 18, 2026

Neutral Labs Scrooge: Five Voices That Would Rather Sound Broken

The Neutral Labs Scrooge is a sequenced malfunction generator - a five-voice analog instrument whose passive voice design produces glitchy crackles, u...

April 16, 2026

Leploop: The Groovebox That Forgets on Purpose

The Leploop is a handmade Italian analog groovebox that embraces unpredictability as a core feature. Its capacitor-based sequencer slowly drifts and d...

April 12, 2026

Synthux Touch 2: a Tiny Synth That Shapeshifts

The Touch 2 by Synthux Academy is a compact touch-sensitive synthesizer built on the Daisy Seed microcontroller. What makes it genuinely interesting i...

April 9, 2026

Ableton Finally Made Hardware, and It's Actually Good

Ableton - the company everyone associates with a laptop and a DAW - has made a standalone portable groovebox. And it's a surprisingly honest, well-tho...

April 6, 2026

Erica Synths EDU DIY Labor: A Breadboard Playground for Eurorack Experimenters

The EDU DIY Labor is a circuit design playground from Erica Synths that puts a breadboard, a built-in power supply, and a set of ready-made audio buil...