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September 30
- D16 and Slate Digital offer you 23 delays in Repeater, a new plugin collaboration
- Cut some serious grooves with Waves Abbey Road Vinyl
- Amazing Machines' Ring Modulator for Reaktor Blocks is free
- One for the road: The White Buffalo
- Why every producer should be finishing tracks faster
- On the radar: Blossoms's Joe Donovan
- Graham Nash on his emotional new album, CSN&Y and his incredible guitar collection
- SoundToys is letting you download Sie-Q, its first EQ plugin, for free
- Kasabian's Ian Matthews: packed stadiums and building a drum empire
September 29
- iZotope Neutron could be the 'smart' plugin that helps you to create better-sounding mixes
- Apogee is in its Element with a new range of Thunderbolt audio interfaces
- Acustica Audio hopes that you dig Sand, its new channel strip plugin
- Blue Cat Destructor plugin "can simulate any kind of distortion"
- SSL hails the second coming of its Nucleus DAW controller and audio interface
- Ben Weinman talks Dillinger Escape Plan's origins, Dissociation and destiny
- Goodhertz's new tape emulation plugin has the Wow factor
- Chris Isaak on First Comes The Night, '56 guitars and '70s punk
September 28
- 10 questions for Blackberry Smoke's Paul Jackson
- Yeco touch controller for Ableton Live gets its first major update
- Focusrite's Red 8Pre audio interface is the new boss in town
- Myles Kennedy and Mark Tremonti talk Alter Bridge's The Last Hero track-by-track
- Maximal 2 promises transparent limiting and analogue-style warmth
- Is Apple thinking of ditching the headphones port on the MacBook Pro?
September 27
- Blue Microphones Raspberry USB mic aims to deliver studio quality sound anywhere
- Oliver Heldens on why his sound is hard to pigeon-hole and the north/south divide
- Softube announces new modules and bug fixes for its Modular soft synth
- Line 6's Spider V modelling amp range revealed
- Bluetooth LE MIDI support comes to Windows 10
- Listen to the 'world's first computer-generated music', created in Alan Turing's lab
- Mick Ralphs's top 5 tips for guitarists
- October Issue of Rhythm on sale now!
- Red Fang: the 10 records that changed our lives
September 26
- The Wall promises to be a limiter that "makes your mixes loud without screwing up your mix"
- Shawn Mendes talks heroes, acoustic roots and lessons learned from megastars
- Valentino Khan's favourite music software
- Classic album: Lady Miss Kier on Deee-Lite's World Clique
- vStack looper lets you record, import, layer, sync and process
- Epica's Mark Jansen: the 10 records that changed my life
September 23
- Total Guitar issue 285 on sale now: Secrets Of The Rhythm Kings
- Klevgrand introduces Jussi, the software singer who responds to your touch
- Blast from the past: Commodore 64
- FIRST LOOK: IK Multimedia iLoud Micro Monitor
- Scott Holiday talks Rival Sons' Hollow Bones, solos and becoming Mr Fuzzlord
- Million dollar baby: Nirvana's Nevermind cover shoot
September 22
- Steinberg's Cubasis 2 iPad DAW adds timestretching, pitchshifting and more
- Rig tour: Deftones
- Beatskillz brings you '80s drum sounds in its Retrohit plugin
- Issue 310 of Future Music is on sale now
- Steve Ballstadt and Andrew Schneider on the insane world of the Blue Man Group
- Steve Morse's 12 tips for guitarists
September 21
- Inear Display's Ephemere glitch percussion synth is, like, totally random
- PreSonus's FaderPort 8 promises "DAW control the way you always hoped it could be"
- PRS strikes gold with highly limited 24-fret McCarty Singlecut Trem guitar
- Frum is an iOS drum synth that promises to 'unlock the potential of FM synthesis'
- Talking Shop: Stillhound
- 10 questions for Morganway's Kieran Morgan
- Elektron's Analog Heat can "enhance or destroy" your audio
- #FUTUREBEAT: Yamaha is searching for young UK drumming talent
- Get 12 tones from one guitar with Michael Kelly's Custom Collection 50 Deluxe
September 20
- Regroover is an "AI beat machine" that lets you 'unmix' your loops
- Cort unveils AB850F acoustic bass guitar
- Will iPad owners get hooked on VirSyn's Addictive Pro synth?
- The Lyra 4 organismic analogue synthesizer is now in production
- One for the road: Def Leppard's Vivian Campbell
- J Rockett Audio Designs channels SRV's Dumble tone for Lenny Color Boost pedal
- Good Charlotte drummer Dean Butterworth talks pop punk sessions, having a hit TV show and GC's return
- MeeBlip's new triode synth brings bigger bass
September 19
- In pictures: Audion's modular-strewn studio
- Gibson releases replica of Mike McCready's 1959 Les Paul guitar
- Korg's plugKey lets you plug headphones, a MIDI controller and a charger into your iPhone 7
- Opeth's Fredrik Akesson: the 11 records that changed my life
- Hughes & Kettner unveils "the world's smartest all-tube guitar amp", the GrandMeister Deluxe 40
- Pioneering 'West coast' synth designer Don Buchla dies
September 16
- Arkells: The 10 records that blew my mind
- 5 free creative compressor plugins
- Spitfire Audio trumpets the arrival of Symphonic Brass, its most complete brass collection yet
- Airbourne's Joel O'Keeffe: the 10 records that changed my life
- Luke Bullen on Joe Strummer, Bryan Ferry, Billy Bragg and building his own studio
September 15
- Fret-King unveils Black Label Elise 'GG' Gordon Giltrap MKII guitar
- EarthQuaker Devices' Transmisser effects pedal will give you "endless intergalactic reverbs"
- AER introduces Tommy Emmanuel Signature Compact TE acoustic guitar amp
- Ibanez refreshes Steve Vai JEM guitar line with rosewood top and wood pickguard model
- iZotope's free Neutrino plugin promises to balance your mixes without sacrificing dynamics
- Mackie's new XR monitor range could be perfect for project and pro studios alike
- Fredric Effects releases Accomplished Badger boost effects pedal
- Gibson reveals Pete Townshend Gold Top '76 Les Paul guitar
- Output says that Substance is "a new breed of bass engine"
- MXR shrinks the Phase 90 to become the Phase 95 mini phaser pedal
- Ricky Gervais on guitar playing and his real Life On The Road
- IK Multimedia launches "pro-quality" iRig HD 2 digital guitar interface
September 14
- Electro-Harmonix reveals "super-affordable" Wailer Wah pedal
- Ableton Link is now in Reason, Serato DJ and Cycling 74 Max
- One for the road: Zakk Wylde
- Pittsburgh Modular breathes life into new four-channel Eurorack beat programmer
- 10 questions for John Wesley
- Hellberg's favourite music software
- Peavey launches Robert Randolph Signature PowerSlide guitar
- Watch a "unique performance" on Roland's new Aerophone AE-10
- Positive Grid adds acoustic guitar effects to BIAS FX
September 13
- TC Electronic promises "the world's first realistic guitar doubling" with Mimiq Doubler effects pedal
- Steve Von Till talks 30 years of Neurosis and reveals his infamous Chain Of Death guitar rig
- Roland reveals flagship V-Drums overhaul with TD-50K and TD-50KV
September 12
- Will Framus & Warwick's Rock 'n Ruler improve your guitar's setup?
- Ian Hunter talks Bowie, Mott The Hoople's mad guitars and the merits of unprofessionalism
- AudioThing launches Space Strip, a modular multi-effect plugin
- KT Tunstall: the 10 records that changed my life
- Talking Shop: These Hidden Hands
- Can 'musical assistant' plugins replace music theory knowledge
- This is what it sounds like when you play guitar underwater
- Journey's Steve Smith on his amazing trip from jazz to rock
- Roland now has a '909' turntable and mixer
September 10
- Boss unveils affordable, compact GT-1 Guitar Effects Processor with "professional sound quality"
- Roland adds the TR-09 drum machine, TB-03 bassline synth and VP-03 vocoder to its Boutique range
- Boss unsheathes affordable, versatile Katana guitar amp range with 55 built-in effects
- Roland officially unveils the System-8, a huge 8-voice polysynth
September 9
- This might be the adapter that you need if you buy an iPhone 7
- Andy Meecham's favourite music software
- Rig tour: City And Colour
- Serato unveils the DJ-808, a Roland DJ controller with TR drum sounds
September 8
- Electro-Harmonix debuts Bass Clone chorus effects pedal
- Hands-on: Native Instruments Maschine Jam
- NI's Maschine Jam lets you capture ideas and develop them fast
- Parkway Drive's 9 tips for a killer live show
- Pioneer DJ aims to attract beginners with compact controller and iPad mixing app
- Meet the programmers: 112dB
- Pioneer DJ's new DJM-450 is a real 'do-it-all' mixer
- Source Audio unveils Soleman MIDI Foot Controller
- Apple may have ditched the headphone jack on the iPhone 7, but it hasn't cut the cable
September 7
- FINISH TRACKS FASTER – Computer Music issue 235
- FREE PSP VST/AU delay plugin with Computer Music 235
- Epiphone unveils koa-topped Les Paul Custom and Wildkat guitars
- Billy Duffy's top 5 tips for guitarists
- Marshall Jefferson on making music then and now, and why he'd rather work alone.
- 10 questions for Emma Ruth Rundle
- Zoom wants to bring Hollywood sound to the masses with the F4 field recorder
- Keeley turns to the Dark Side for Pink Floyd-inspired multi-effects pedal
- Mogees Keys app lets you trigger notes, chords and arpeggios by tapping any surface
- Dr No showcases mad skulls with limited-edition SkullFuzz pedals
- Voxengo ups the tempo with new version of free delay plugin
September 6
- On the radar: O'Brother
- How Wild Beasts evolved to making music with synths, samplers and software
- Tomas Haake: why Meshuggah returned to live recording and real guitar amps for The Violent Sleep Of Reason
- New drum gear of the month: review round-up (September 2016)
- Experience the world's finest acoustic guitars and players at the London Acoustic Show
- Exponential Audio's Nimbus plugin is "reverb reinvented"
- Gibson Acoustic launches 24 new guitars for 2017 range
- The Voxarray 61 custom synth could be the best-looking keyboard of the year
- Craig Reynolds talks blast beats, YouTube stardom and Stray From The Path
September 5
- Dannic: 10 records that blew my mind
- MXR channels boutique amp tones with Shin-Juku Drive guitar effects pedal
- DRC is the great-sounding soft synth that you can use anywhere
- New tech gear of the month: review round-up (September 2016)
- Are the 909 and 303 coming to Roland's Boutique range?
- Cypress Hill's Sen Dog: the 10 records that changed my life
- Can you tell the difference between an analogue and digital Juno synth?
September 2
- SampleRadar: 306 free off the grid samples
- Neck Deep talk Billie Joe, Big Sky and big gigs
- PRS unveils Chris Robertson SE Signature Model
- New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (September 2016)
- Native Instruments Komplete 11 is available to buy now
- Could Spectrasonics' Keyscape be the only keyboard instrument you'll ever need?
September 1
- Dave Smith Instruments OB-6 module is shipping now
- Vox announces limited British Racing Green amp finishes
- ROLI acquires software developer FXpansion
- Bastian Bux's favourite music software
- Savages' Gemma Thompson on her artful, dynamic guitar playing
- Youth: the 10 records that blew my mind
- M-Audio's thinks that its CTRL49 controller keyboard "is a game-changer"
- Less Than Jake's Vinnie Fiorello on new albums, old albums and live albums
- 5 minutes alone: Bob Mould
- In the studio: Sum 41
- Korg's new Volca Kick is not just a kick drum machine
- Korg's new-look microKorg S adds built-in speakers and fresh presets
- Korg announces desktop-friendly module versions of its ARP Odyssey