I still have fond memories of the classic Operation Flashpoint on the PC, it was a clunky and ugly would-be war simulator, rife with glitches, but it’s not-so-trivial offering of playable military hardware, and vast unrestricted maps made it extremely satisfying to play. What constitutes a Flashpoint game has changed quite considerably since. The vast [...]
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Operation Flashpoint: Red River Review
Saturday, May 14th, 2011Line 6 Pocket Pod Express
Monday, April 27th, 2009At first glance the Line6 Pocket Pod Express is very cute, stylish, and shiny. Almost toy-like. It’s the smallest and most basic of the Pod lineup and is designed to be simple, easy to use and portable but it’s looks can be deceiving, for they hide quite an exceptional sounding and flexible piece of kit [...]
Behringer UMA25S Controller Keyboard
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008After a bit of a quiet period on the professional audio front here at Gadgetoid we’re coming back full force with a focus on producing professional sounding podcasts. Nestled within a recent shipment of gear from Behringer, with which to do just that, came the Behringer UMA25S which has nothing much to do with podcasting [...]
Novation XioSynth Controller and Synthesizer Review
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Joining our ranks of Novation products is the XioSynth Controller and Synthesizer which is a mixed bag that might appeal to some and turn off others with its incredibly compact and good looking silver/grey finished body with rounded edges for an appealing but not necessarily very robust aesthetic that seems more suited to the studio [...]
Korg Kontrol 61 First Impressions
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008The Korg Kontrol 61 has made it into the Gadgetoid studio for a once over and is an impressively different control surface that’s, unlike any I have used before. In short it’s built like a brick shi… err outhouse.
Novation Remote 61SL
Monday, March 10th, 2008It’s not often you find a product changing the way you work, normally you pick something you expect to fit in with your workflow and go with it. Being a journalist I end up trying products I would not normally consider for purchase and just occasionally I find them becoming irreplaceable. The Novation Remote 61SL [...]
Korg MicroKORG Synthesizer
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008The Korg MicroKORG is an impressive, ultra-portable and robust synthesizer which makes up for its diminuiative size and somewhat controversial half-sized keyboard in droves with powerful synthesizing features including a vocoder, arpeggiator, effects and 128 genre-grouped pre-programmed patches to get you inspired and playing music out of the box.
Introducing the Roland Fantom X8
Sunday, October 14th, 2007This is the first of a series of articles covering Roland’s flagship synthesizer workstation the Fantom X series (which includes the X6, X7 and X8 in addition to a rack-mountable version of the synth). In particular I will be referring to the behemoth cream of the Fantom crop; the X8.
Sennheiser HD215 Headphones Review
Thursday, October 11th, 2007We took a look at the Sennheiser HD215 closed-back headphones back in June, without further ado here’s what we thought. The Sennheiser HD215 headphones are fantastic DJ, home-studio or music listening headphones at an even more fantastic budget price. As is typical of these kinds of headphone the HD215 cans are large, cushioned and comfortable, [...]
Roland Juno-D Review
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007My first love in the world of keyboards is my Roland Fatom X8; I’ve not given it any of the Gadgetoid limelight, however, because it is a decidedly expensive niche product. The 61-key Juno-D on the other hand is what I would consider to be affordable and is a great little synth and good all-round [...]