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Polyend’s MIDI and QWERTY keyboard hybrid looks like such an elegant design concept that we wonder why no one thought of it before

The prototype of this spiritual successor to the Creative Prodikeys is about to go on show, and it’s heading for production

MusicRadar · Aug 26

Superbooth 2026: all the latest synth news from Berlin - LIVE!

Knob tweakers, assemble! Europe's most exciting synth showcase is upon us

MusicRadar · May 7

"The drum machine we would want to use and own ourselves": Polyend Drums combines the best of analogue and digital

Drums is a hybrid analogue-digital drum machine "built for immediacy, depth and performance"

MusicRadar · May 7

“Create and share effects that can’t be found in another pedal”: Polyend releases the Endless, an open-source pedal that lets users create effects from prompts

It's ChatGPT in an aluminium stompbox format, with a growing pool of user-made effects, and coding and coding-free creating on offer

Guitar World · Jan 24

“If you can describe the effect, you can make your own”: Polyend Endless is a customisable stompbox with a text-to-effect generator

NAMM 2026: Polyend’s new pedal can load custom effects coded in C++, or created with Polyend’s text-based Playground generator

MusicRadar · Jan 23

“It’s unfamiliar, intimidating, and seemingly impenetrable for producers raised on DAWs like Ableton Live - but it can unlock a whole new world of creativity”: I tried a music tracker and it rewired my brain (in a good way)

Beloved by artists from Aphex Twin to Deadmau5, trackers swap the trusty piano roll for a text-based, vertically-scrolling interface that looks like something out of The Matrix. Let's find out how deep the tracker rabbit hole goes

MusicRadar · May 28, 2025

“Not another multi-effect for your dentist,” but Polyend’s Mess looks like an FX sequencing powerhouse that you can really get your teeth into

Superbooth 25: It promises to be “built for adventurers in sound design”

MusicRadar · May 7, 2025

One of our favourite instruments of 2024 gets even better as Polyend adds an experimental sample engine to Synth

Superbooth 2025: “I’ve always admired how Andy Stott builds tracks from just a few carefully shaped samples and his minimal, textural approach influenced the design”

MusicRadar · May 7, 2025

"An excellent stomp box compressor that’s equally at home across a stereo mix": Polyend Press review

Combining a stomp box compressor and stereo mix compressor in one unit may seem slightly odd, but that’s exactly what this latest design does

MusicRadar · Feb 17, 2025

NAMM 2025: Feel the rhythm in your feet with Polyend Step, “the first fully programmable drum machine in guitar pedal form”

A step change for live performance and practice sessions?

MusicRadar · Jan 21, 2025