Future Music Issue 328 March 2018 [PDF]

NEW GEAR 2018. Traditionally, January always brings a flood of new music technology gear, as companies break out their latest releases for the NAMM trade show in California, and this year is no different. Being just a few weeks in, it might be a little too early to call it, but here at FM we're starting to feel like 2018 could be an especially good year for electronic music makers. Case in point, the two new hardware synths on this issue's cover. First we have the Prologue, the grown-up sibling of one of our favourite synths in recent years, Korg's Minilogue, which blends some genuinely impressive digital tricks with its classic analogue innards. Plus, we're going in deep with Arturia's MiniBrute 2 the beefed-up, semimodular reimagining of their popular analogue monosynth.