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Terrence says the target audience for the SYNTRX is experimental musicians or hardcore synth nerds - either group would be satisfied spending hours playing with the SYNTRX’s features and sound palette. And, since it has built-in speakers, it can be used without any additional gear. It can also function as a sub mixer or an effects processor. The SYNTRX is capable of being more than just a synthesizer, though. While the two share several of the same features, such as a three oscillators, a spring reverb unit and, most importantly, a unique patch matrix, the SYNTRX includes presets and MIDI support. A rather niche product, the SYNTRX is an analog synth inspired by the much pricer EMS Synthi A (used by Brian Eno and Pink Floyd). Terrence O’Brien declined to provide a score for the Erica Synths SYNTRX, on the basis that a score couldn’t properly sum up the reasons why the synthesizer would be worth $2,980. The HP EliteBook x360 1040 focuses on privacy Nathan recommends updating your Mac to Big Sur for the valuable improvements, but recognizes that the core macOS experience hasn’t been drastically altered. Safari has a new home screen which pulls favorite sites, pages, tabs and saved stories, and it also now has a Privacy Report that details what sites track about you.

Changes to the Notification and Control centers bring many of the same functions and features found on iOS 14, such as notification grouping by app, to desktop. The design changes - including a bright desktop background, translucent menu bar and revamped toolbar buttons - come alongside new system tones that make Big Sur look and sound different from previous OS versions. With major UI updates to notifications and the control center, subtle design tweaks and modifications to apps like Messages and Maps, Big Sur moves the desktop experience closer to the mobile one in ways that unify the software across devices. Nathan Ingraham has been testing Big Sur since the public beta was made available this past summer, and says the macOS update manages to make important and noteworthy changes without fundamentally changing how the system works overall.
