Little Music Blog

March 22, 2026

GLX Balsam: Eight Sliders, Eight Voices, One Very Unusual Synth

The GLX Balsam is an 8-voice modal synthesizer with a unique slider-based interface that lets you bend and shape each voice individually. Made by a sm...

March 20, 2026

GRM Tools Atelier: Sound as Raw Material

Atelier is a modular sound platform from INA GRM - the French institution behind musique concrète - that treats sound as raw material to be shaped rat...

March 16, 2026

Chompi Is Back - and It's Grown Up

Chase Bliss has teamed up with the creators of Chompi to bring back this quirky screenless sampler - with new firmware, new colours, and big plans for...

March 13, 2026

Synth:Bit - Making Music with a micro:bit

Lectrify's Synth:Bit turns a BBC micro:bit into a compact, hackable one-octave synthesizer - a neat little gateway into music and electronics for curi...

March 12, 2026

1010music Bento: A Full Studio You Can Carry

The 1010music Bento is a compact, battery-powered sampling production lab that fits in a bag and replaces a laptop setup - here are some thoughts on w...

March 8, 2026

The Little Box That Does Three Things

Tangible Instruments Arpeggio is a pocket-sized arpeggiator, sequencer, and synthesizer rolled into one portable, battery-powered device - and it's be...

March 6, 2026

Herbs and Stones Seeds - Noise from the Edges of Logic

Seeds is a tiny, battery-powered noise synthesizer from Herbs and Stones that squeezes unexpected sounds out of primitive CMOS logic chips. It's avail...

March 4, 2026

Kastle 2 FX Wizard: Nine Effects and a Patchbay in Your Pocket

The Kastle 2 FX Wizard is a pocket-sized patchable stereo multi-effects unit from Bastl Instruments. With nine effects modes, 54 patch points, and an ...

March 2, 2026

DecadeBridge Albers: Drone Synthesis With a Human Touch

The DecadeBridge Albers is a handbuilt 4-oscillator drone synth from Cheshire, England, with light-dependent resistors, individual LFOs, and a low-pas...

February 27, 2026

Embodme Erae 2: The Controller That Feels Like an Instrument

The Erae 2 from Embodme is a polyphonic MPE controller with 16,000 force sensors, a built-in MIDI looper, and 24 CV outputs - a device that blurs the ...