Livio recently released the Livio Radio Featuring Pandora, Five of FutureMusic’s staffers took the Livio on a TestDrive to see how it worked as stand-alone Internet radio, as well as a music discovery tool…. More information on our Livio Radio...

Violet Designs, a boutique microphone manufacturer from Estonia, recently sent us their Wedge large-diaphragm condenser microphone for review. Violet has been in business for a little over 13 years and has made some nice headway in the market by providing well-constructed microphones with quality components. Violet Designs aimed for a mass-market,...

The new APC40 from Akai and Ableton has caused quite a stir within the tight-knit community of Live users since it was first announced at the 2009 NAMM show. We recently had the opportunity to spend some quality time with the APC40, and have determined, for the most part, the controller lives up the hype. But, don’t call it a controller. What Akai has...

Stanton is back. After years of lackluster new product announcements, strictly cosmetic product polishing and recovering from their very public breakup with Native Instruments, the seminal DJ company finally has something to smile about, their new SC.3d. The 3d, also known as DaScratch, is an economical, multi-touch MIDI DJ controller. The 3d is a...

After putting Arturia’s Analog Factory Experience through one of our longest product tests to date, we have concluded that there is a lot to love about their economical hardware/software virtual analog solution. Although it is rare to put the words economical and quality in the same sentence these days, Arturia’s Analog Factory Experience can...

TestDrive, our gear reviews section, has cooked up another extensive evaluation. This time we’ve turned our attention to the Sony PCM-D50… Whether or not Sony was planning to debut a more budget minded recorder, or is now responding to this vibrant sector, is unknown, however, the Japanese company recently launched the PCM-D50, an affordable 24-bit...