Hands-on: Cong Burn’s Stacks Plug-in and iOS App Synths, Loops and Layers – CDM Create Digital Music

From the creator of Strokes, Stacks is a unique 4-voice wavetable morphing polysynth combined with a 4-track granular looper. But that description doesn’t really do it justice: modeling and digital grunge combine to create a raunchy instrument that behaves like an experimental studio. I’ve been playing around with a test version of Stacks on desktop. … Read more

“Large storage capacity and the ability to load your own loops make it an instrument in its own right”: DigiTech JamMan Solo HD review

A DigiTech JamMan Solo HD looper pedal on a wooden floor, next to a pedalboard

It’s been a few years since it was announced that DigiTech would be revived after being acquired by Cor-Tek, the makers of Cort guitars. Aside from the DOD Overdrive Preamp 250, we haven’t exactly seen the series of reissues and fresh guitar pedals guitarists might expect. As a huge DigiTech fan, I still have my … Read more