Vintage Ad Monday Madness: Rhodes Chroma

Both of the advertisements for the Rhodes Chroma appeared in Keyboard magazine circa 1982. Check out the Apple ][ – remember those huge floppy drives? Yeeesh! Click on the images below for larger versions. The copy has been translated below each image for easy reading, and yuks. At Rhodes we’ve always felt there’s a big difference between a keyboard that responds like a machine and one that plays like a musical...

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Native Instruments Revamps User Interface For Reaktor 6

As you can tell from our Native Instruments Reaktor review, we’re big fans of this powerful modular synthesis program. However, if there’s one serious drawback to the software, it’s the Mt. Everest steep learning curve. Native Instruments has gone to great pains to make the program more “accessible” over the years by making the software more efficient, but to the uninitiated, it can be downright...

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