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Ableton and Arturia reign supreme as Reverb reveals best-selling synths, samplers and drum machines of 2025

Ableton knocks Elektron off its perch as Push 2 tops the best-sellers list, and the Akai MPC makes a storming comeback

MusicRadar · Dec 10, 2025

Digitakt II’s new firmware update adds a major user-requested feature – and finally lets it step out of the shadow of the original

OS 1.5 adds the long-awaited Slice machine, offering a new way to work with samples

MusicRadar · Jun 26, 2025

"An exponential upgrade; not only does it double down on what made the original impressive, but it adds copious new capabilities": Elektron Digitone II review

Elektron's hardware FM synth was already a modern classic – but this update is still a significant upgrade

MusicRadar · Mar 19, 2025

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“It’s better in every way. The second version took what the first could do and made it five times as useful”: Waleed on Digitakt II, Ableton Live and overcoming creative block

Waleed's 2021 debut was championed by the likes of Four Tet and Ben UFO. After wrestling with the pressure of a follow-up, he's rediscovered the joy of music-making and released an EP that's one of this year's best

MusicRadar · Dec 19, 2024

“The Teenage Engineering OP-1 has been dethroned”: Reverb publishes its list of the best-selling electronic music gear of the year - and after 5 years, there’s a new No 1

The online gear marketplace has delivered its yearly round-up of the most-purchased synths, drum machines, samplers and sequencers, but who came out on top?

MusicRadar · Dec 13, 2024

"The next chapter in the story of this little box of magic": Elektron Digitakt II unveiled with stereo sampling, an expanded sequencer, more tracks and new effects

The next edition of Elektron's widely beloved sampler and drum machine might look similar, but it beefs up the OG's specs considerably

MusicRadar · Apr 25, 2024

Is this Digitakt II? Leak suggests successor to Elektron's popular sampler is on the way with "so much more power under the hood"

If the leak is genuine, Elektron's first hardware release in two years would bring stereo sampling, an expanded sequencer, more memory, more effects and more LFOs to the 'takt

MusicRadar · Apr 24, 2024

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Elektron Digitakt 1.5

The Swedish brand’s widely-loved sampler gets a significant overhaul. We take a not-quite second look

MusicRadar · Apr 27, 2023

“Between synth lines, hard-hitting percussion and flexible, hands-on sequencing, it taps into precisely what we look for in a hardware groovebox”: Elektron Syntakt review

With the arrival of the OS 1.30 update, we revisit our review of the hybrid analogue and digital drum machine

MusicRadar · Jan 17, 2023

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