
What is it?
There was a time when a mini keyboard with speakers would be shunned for fear of it being a toy or, worse, a 'home keyboard' with auto accompaniments and bossanova rhythms. Not so in 2025. Now we have small companies, start-ups and even larger companies stretching the boundaries of music technology, releasing all-singing and all-sampling keyboards and synths that are putting the fun back into music creation, without an accompaniment in earshot.