Isla Instruments

The S2400 has some of the best groove and punch on the planet. It also has Choke Groups that can make sounds cut each other off, creating a gating effect between the various sounds in your songs. Combined, this makes for a SERIOUSLY awesome sounding drum machine sampler, but getting ...

In anticipation of the upcoming USB audio transfer, I’ve been working on trying to make songs as complete as possible in the S2400 so that I can record them into Ableton for mixing and mastering. Here’s last night’s jam- a little 90’s influenced Drum & Bass. There’s a bit of ...

Alright- some of the people on the S2400 forum were requesting those of us who had our units make more video content for them to watch while they were waiting for their units. I’ve never actually made a video before actually learning a piece of gear inside and out, but ...

Granular synthesis has for a long time been an integral technique used by sampler and synthesis fanatics everywhere. It’s a powerful technique where a “grain” or small snippet of a sample is used as the base sound or waveform of a larger sounding synthesizer preset, typically made with a digital ...

  Hardware synthesizers: Elektron Digitone – the simple fact that it’s sitting on my desk, just to the right of my computer keyboard staring me in the face forces me to make sounds in it. While I use my VSTs to make sounds all the time, and technically they’re more ...