You know that lofi beats have taken over when companies are designing entire instruments around them. Sonicware has introduced the Liven Lofi-12, a groovebox devoted to producing subdued tracks. The ...

Sonicware have enlisted the talents of video game composer Yuzo Koshiro, known for soundtracking Sonic The Hedgehog and Streets of Rage, to design 32 sound presets and 8 patterns for the synth, which ...

Sonicware is back with another quirky standalone synthesizer in its fairly crowded Liven line. The Liven Texture Lab was unveiled at the SuperBooth expo in Berlin and features a near-identical layout ...

Sonicware’s Lofi-12 XT first landed in 2023, itself an update to the company’s Liven Lofi-12 that had launched a year previously. Both machines share a similar ethos – reviving the crunchy, ...

Released in 2019, Sonicware’s ELZ_1 synth ended up falling victim to the global chip shortage, and is currently out of production. All is not lost, however, because Dr Yu Endo, who worked on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sonicware has stepped into the portable sampler space with its SmplTrek device. The battery-powered groovebox features a built-in ...

The ambient synthesizer received the firmware update 1.5 on Friday. The update process has been simplified and there are new functions. On Friday this week, Sonicware released a firmware update to ...

Japan's Sonicware has developed a hand-held groove machine for folks who create music using sounds from the world around them. The SmplTrek is a battery-powered sonic sampler with a built-in sequencer ...

Mega Synthesis faithfully recreates the YM2612 chip that gave so many beloved '80s and '90s video games their lo-fi sound When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...