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May 31
- Spitfire Audio launches its new Labs range of free VST/AU instrument plugins
- Issue 332 of Future Music is on sale now
- 112dB says that its Mikron Reverb lets you generate an amazing space using just a few simple controls
- Me and my guitar: Pedram Valiani
- Brian Fallon: “I don’t want to be a lead player. I just want to be the best rhythm section ever”
- Michael Schenker's 10 tips for guitarists: "The key is making each note carry a meaning"
- Reason’s Europa synth is now available as a VST/AU plugin and a free web version
May 30
- 10 questions for At The Drive-In’s Keeley Davis: “Invest in strap locks. They will save your life”
- Introducing: Spiders’ drummer Ricard Harryson
- Me in my studio: Novo Amor
- Electro-Harmonix plots a compact reverb market heist with Oceans 11 pedal
- James Holden: "I’ve seen a lot of posers with the big modular, then you go around the back and there’s like three wires in it!”
May 29
- Top guitar and music tech firms raided in price-fixing probe
- The SynthPatch app could be every vintage synth owner’s new best friend
- Native Instruments is letting the bass kick with new TRK-01 plugin
- Buskers can now offer card payments
- Emika: "Anyone with a laptop or a DJ is a producer by default"
- Trivium's Paolo Gregoletto: “Playing fast is great, but the detail’s got to be worked out”
May 28
- Blast from the past: Roland MT-32
- Van William: "My sound is a mix of early '70s Neil Young, Beck’s Sea Change, with a little Nirvana Unplugged"
May 26
- Tommy Emmanuel, Jon Gomm and Mike Dawes set to judge Acoustic Guitarist of the Year 2018
May 25
- Step inside Thomann’s jaw-dropping guitar emporium
- Me and my guitar: Ratt's Warren DeMartini
- Mercuriall Audio is offering you a free plugin chorus pedal
May 24
- Solar Guitars promises “the ultimate metal guitar” with At The Gates signature model
- Oliver Huntemann: “ I feel at home in the darkness of a good bassline”
- Hands-on demo with Loopmasters Loopcloud 2.0
- iZotope releases VocalSynth 2: vocal tract modelling and even more creative control
- MeldaProduction’s MSpectralDelay is “20 delay plugins in one”, and free until 3 June
- A Perfect Circle's Billy Howerdel: “What I lack in technical ability, I try to make up for with soundscapes”
May 23
- Good news: the guitar industry is actually growing
- Kevin McKay: 5 things I’ve learned about music production
- The Levellers' Mark Chadwick: “Writing on our own, with an acoustic guitar, in the bedroom. That's the best kind of way to write a song”
- Me and my guitar: Graveyard on their P-90-loaded Gibson electrics
- Go back to the glory days of home recording with the Tascam 202mkVII dual cassette deck
- Dr No’s Moon Canyon is one of the most extraordinary pedals we’ve ever seen
- PreSonus releases Studio One 4: the DAW with something for everyone?
May 22
- Blood Red Shoes’ Laura-Mary Carter: “I got my first guitar when we got signed - before that, I just borrowed guitars from friends”
- The Lekholm DM48 MIDI controller gives harmonica players a piece of the synth pie
- Tone Lab could make make synthesis easy by letting you stack up your sounds
- Joe Satriani responds to Ritchie Blackmore: “It's unfortunate when somebody that you look up to has something negative to say about you”
- FL Studio 20 released with multiple new features and full Mac compatibility
- Hoverguitar is the “world’s first invisible guitar and bass wall mount”
- Kronecker is a new iOS synth that’s designed to run like clockwork
- Collings pays tribute to founder Bill Collings with special-edition AT 16 acoustic guitar
May 21
- 10 emerging country guitarists you need to hear
- Lehar's favourite music software
- Summer NAMM 2018: Grez announces 28.5”-scale baritone Mendocino guitar
- Tone Empire’s “mystical” Loc-Ness drum processing plugin is definitely real
- Framus releases William DuVall Talisman Signature guitar
- BluGuitar debuts lightweight 2x12 TwinCab
- Dylan's 'going electric' tour Telecaster sells for $490,000
- Derek Smalls: “I’ve stayed out of pods, mate. Once bitten, twice shy... I don’t even like lifts”
- The Circuit Mono Station synth & sequencer is Novation’s dirty little secret
May 18
- Matt Tuck, Rob Chapman and Chris Buck announced as Young Guitarist of the Year judges
- The Glitch Mob’s Edward Ma explains how their cutting-edge Blade 2.0 instrument will change the way they perform live
- Behind The Kit with ex-Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward
- "I feel like some DJs out there are making a ton of money and don’t know how to DJ": Mike Dunn on the evolution of house
- Experience the sound of tape with ToneBoosters’ ReelBus 4 plugin
- Harmonica legend Mickey Raphael reflects on The Highwaymen: “It was like Mount Rushmore onstage”
May 17
- Steinberg says that “VST 2 is coming to an end”, but what does this mean for your DAW and plugins?
- Pabst Wax is a portable recording studio that lets you cut a track straight to vinyl
- Jimmy Fallon and Ariana Grande’s Nintendo Labo band sounds way better than it should
- Why 1958-1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard Sunbursts are among the greatest guitars of all time
- Review round-up: baritone guitars
- Introducing Hinds’ drummer Amber Grimbergen
May 16
- 8 up-and-coming DJs you need to hear in 2018
- This playable Stylophone-style business card is way cooler than yours
- Kurt Cobain’s iconic 1959 Martin D-18E lost in daughter’s divorce settlement
- FREE PC/Mac spectral powersynth with Computer Music – Thorn CM
- ESSENTIAL FREEWARE 2018 – Computer Music issue 257 is out now!
- Infected Mushroom’s free Wider plugin can “increase stereo width by up to 200%”
- Cort debuts $599 Sunset TC vintage mash-up guitar
- 10 questions for Harts: “I feel the Am7 chord represents me”
- Get the sound of your ‘80s PortaSound home keyboard with Plogue’s PortaFM synth plugin
- Experience one of the UK’s most exciting up-and-coming alt-rock bands with this Press To Meco guitar playthrough
- Ash’s Tim Wheeler: “When it wasn’t cool to have flash solos, I was still doing them. I love it. I’m all about it”
- Z.Vex’s Vibrophase promises “phase and vibrato nuances never heard before”
- Graham Coxon on scoring The End Of The F***ing World soundtrack
May 15
- Of Mice & Men’s Phil Manansala: "I never realised the similarities between pop songwriting methods and our music - I just wrote breakdowns and sick riffs!"
- Nabihah Iqbal talks creative strategies and incense sticks
- Waggi unveils pedalboards with innovative hinged two-tier design
- Ritchie Blackmore talks Joe Satriani and Steve Morse: “If you’re always playing the correct notes, there’s something wrong”
- Lindsey Buckingham speaks out on Fleetwood Mac firing: “They’d lost their perspective”
May 14
- Way Out West’s Jody Wisternoff on his partnership with Nick Warren and early musical life in Bristol
- Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum is selling his Chamberlin Rhythmate model 40, a genuinely old-school drum machine
- Fretlocks announces closure and last chance to buy innovative single-string capos
- Is bamboo the future of sustainable guitar-building?
- Moog’s Grandmother is an all-analogue semi-modular synth with a retro vibe
- Five Finger Death Punch’s Zoltan Bathory - my top 5 tips for guitarists: "Turn the gain all the way down so you have to hear every f**k-up"
- Machine Head's Jared McEachern: “I told myself ‘I’m gonna give it a shot - and whatever happens, at least I tried’”
- X Japan founder Yoshiki: “I had a death wish. If I’m going to die, I’m going to die on stage, so that’s why I would jump into my drumset.”
May 11
- Superbooth 2018: All the best bits from this year’s synth-a-thon
- Joe Bonamassa teases signature Epiphone ES-355 guitars for 2019
- SampleRadar: 494 free essential drum kit samples
- Frightened Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchison dies aged 36: musicians react and pay tribute
- Alex Adair: 5 things I’ve learned about music production
- Me and my guitar: TesseracT's James Monteith
- 6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear in May
- Mansons Guitars set to host FX-Fest, the UK’s first pedal-dedicated event
- You can now build a cardboard guitar with Nintendo Labo
- Yamaha announces acquisition of Ampeg
May 10
- Superbooth 2018: Behringer comes good on drum machine promise with 808 clone
- Michael Lee Firkins’ top 5 tips for guitarists: “A solo is an open field where you can play anything; filling it with just a scale or sequence seems like a waste”
- Your Guitarist of the Year judges are Joe Satriani, Paul Gilbert and Mark Tremonti
- LANDR announces free sample download service with sounds from pro producers
- Take hardware control of your Fabfilter effect plugins with Hickory and Dickory
- Tone makers - Robert Keeley: "It’s worth spending money on a decent power supply, rather than another pedal"
- Watch this radical guitarist shred while he skates on a working pedal/skateboard
- Introducing: Stone Broken’s Robyn Haycock
- D’Angelico upgrades flagship Excel EXL-1 archtop guitar
- Solar adds 8 new guitars to its electric line-up
- Huge guitar ensemble aims to break world record with performance of David Bowie’s Heroes
May 9
- Superbooth 2018 video: Black Corporation’s Polykobol rework, Kijimi, is coming along rather well
- Blast from the past: Roland MC-202 MicroComposer
- Thomann set to open its doors for colossal Gearhead University - Class of 2018 YouTube event
- Superbooth 2018 video: The Dreadbox Erebus puts on a bit of weight with new features
- Superbooth 2018 video: This Is Not Rocket Science Edgecutter and Wobbler demoed
- Superbooth 2018 video: Dada Machines Automat toolkit is taking techno out of the box
- Superbooth 2018 video: Bastl Casper Party Mix and Dark Matter take mixing to another level
- 10 questions for The Sheepdogs’ Ewan Currie: “Don't play so many damn notes. Space is key”
- "Emulation is boring!": Wolfgang Palm on the past, present and future of synth design
- Superbooth 2018 video: DTronics DT-RDX synth programmer in action
- Brent Cobb's 10 essential country guitar albums: "What those guys were doing was imitating the sound of their surroundings"
- Propellerhead is giving Reason users a free drum sequencer as part of version 10.1
- Superbooth 2018 video: Yamaha Synth museum
- Superbooth 2018 video: Live sampling with the Tasty Chips Electronics GR-1 synth
- Mooer debuts 2 new Micro Preamps, the Taxidea Taxus and Brown Sound
- Morley reveals mini Custom Shop wah pedals for Steve Vai, George Lynch and Kiko Loureiro
- Fender celebrates 60 years of the Jazzmaster with 3 new limited-edition guitars
- Roland's new TD-17 V-Drums could actually make you a better drummer
May 8
- Signed Muse Drones Tour Cort/Manson guitar and drum sticks up for auction
- Superbooth 2018 video: Bastl releases its Thyme processor and launches new Eurorack modules
- Audio Sprockets’ ToneDexter pedal promises to make your acoustic’s piezo pickup sound more like a mic’d guitar
- Fender adds ukulele lessons to Fender Play learning platform
- Gus G's top 5 tips for guitarists: "All techniques need to have a musical meaning"
- Superbooth 2018 first look: u-he Colour Copy and Spring Reverb
- Superbooth 2018 first look: Spectrasonics Omnisphere 2.5
May 7
- Lee Pomeroy: "To play these songs with Jon Anderson and Trevor Rabin is a dream come true"
May 6
- Superbooth 2018 video: Richard Devine live rig tour
- Superbooth 2018 video: Snazzy FX pedal range
- Superbooth 2018 video: Behringer MS-101 demo
May 4
- Superbooth 2018 video: Erica Synths Techno System demo
- Superbooth 2018: live highlights gallery
- Roland Cloud serves up a bag of chiptune sounds in the Blip Blop plugin
- Superbooth 2018 video: Dreadbox’s Medusa synth comes with a Polyend-powered sequencer
- George Harrison’s first electric guitar, the Hofner Club 40, up for sale
- Kurt Cobain’s Fender Jag-Stang prototype and original drawings up for auction
- Waves and Paul Reed Smith join forces to create the PRS SuperModels plugin amp package
- Galactic Empire's Dark Vader: "This was all about making a cool YouTube video. We didn’t have any expectations about this turning into a band"
- Superbooth 2018: Twisted Electrons keeps it retro with NES chiptune and 8-bit bassline synths
May 3
- Superbooth 2018 video: Dave Smith Instruments Sequential Prophet-X
- Superbooth 2018 video: Behringer Pro-One
- Superbooth 2018 video: Modor Comb Filter
- Superbooth 2018 video: Behringer VC340
- Issue 331 of Future Music is on sale now
- Jamie Lawson: this is the guitar gear I couldn’t live without
- Superbooth 2018: Audio Damage’s Quanta might be the granular plugin synth that you can actually understand
- Superbooth 2018: news, video and more
May 2
- HappyPlacer is a free VST meme maker plugin for your DAW
- Marshall Origin 20: hands-on demo
- EarthQuaker Devices debuts ultra-versatile Pyramids Stereo Flanger pedal
- Gotharman blasts into duoSpaze with its new synth/sampler
- 10 questions for Malina Moye: “My prized guitar is a custom Fender with a left-handed body and a right-handed headstock strung in reverse”
- Fender’s Parallel Universe expands with launch of American Elite Telecaster HSS guitar
- Mesa/Boogie reveals two new switching pedals for dual-amp rigs
- Superbooth 2018: Dave Smith Instruments officially announces Sequential Prophet X synthesizer
- Epiphone unveils Jason Hook M-4 Explorer signature guitar
- 8 forward-thinking acoustic guitars that use alternative tonewoods
May 1
- New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (May 2018)
- New tech gear of the month: review round-up (May 2018)
- Introducing: Go Primitive’s Dan Teale
- Gibson files for bankruptcy
- Could you be 2018’s Guitarist of the Year?
- RockBoard wants to tidy up your pedalboard with its Module Patch Bays and power supply mounting accessories
- Superbooth 2018: Roland adds four new models to the System-500 club as it expands its Eurorack offering
- D’Angelico unveils its first-ever 12-string electric guitar
- Gary Lucas’s top 5 tips for guitarists: “Music is the most immediate and magical of all the art forms”