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April 30
- The Moog Spectravox has landed, but will you ever be able to buy it?
- Is Yamaha considering making a new CS-80?
- Dunable made a guitar you can smoke out of
- “Open a portal to intergalactic doom” with Haunted Labs’ Carolina Reaper overdrive/fuzz pedal
- Guitarist of the Year 2019 judge John Petrucci: “Do not hold back. First impressions are extremely important”
- Sample Magic is “phasing out” all of the plugins that it sells and supports
- Download Arturia’s Pigments for free and discover why it could be your new favourite soft synth
- Could Emvoice One be the plugin that finally cracks vocal synthesis?
April 29
- Gibson’s epic new 25-strong guitar line-up is here
- How fast can you recreate a drum pattern? Test yourself in SoundGym’s BeatRace
- The Super Smash Button lets you bring your fast-fingered arcade skills to your music making
- Joyo announces dual-channel MA-10 portable amps for electric, acoustic and bass guitar
- Fender takes a load off with Lightweight Ash American Professional guitars and basses
- Molly Tuttle: “The more tunes I learned, the more it became a fun challenge”
- Me and my guitar: Periphery's Misha Mansoor
- Erik Kertes: “Knowledge is power. If you can play all these styles of music, you’re going to work that much more”
- Yamaha goes back to the future with FG Red Label acoustic guitars
- The Analog Pro plugin makes your music sound like it’s being played on tape or vinyl
- Rehegoo Music Group pairs up with Quincy Jones Productions to help new artists break into the industry
April 26
- Superbooth 2019: Synthstrom Audible brings looping to the Deluge in latest update
- Joyo unveils its affordable flagship multi-effects pedal, the Gem Box III
- Boogie wonderland: 8 of the best Mesa/Boogie guitar amps
- Roland’s BTM-1 is the Bluetooth speaker that you can plug your guitar into
- PRS unveils first-ever SE guitars with roasted maple necks and fingerboards
- Classic gear: Epiphone FT 110/Frontier
- SampleRadar: 275 free downtempo dreams samples
- MXR unleashes Raijin Drive overdrive and distortion pedal
- Strandberg debuts Boden Bass guitars
April 25
- Arturia V Collection 7 comes with new Synthi, CZ and Mellotron plugins
- Sensel’s Morph controller now comes with an official Buchla Thunder overlay
- The Kapsule might just be the ultimate guitar case for touring musicians
- Tone King debuts Ironman II reactive guitar amp power attenuator
- This sweet Flying V guitar is built out of 8 mega jawbreaker candies
- Brian Bromberg: “Spending 30 years on my 300-year-old Italian upright taught me how to finesse a bass sound”
April 24
- Superbooth 2019: Gotharman’s Tiny LD could be the smallest granular synth workstation out there
- Could you be 2019’s Bassist of the Year?
- Could you be 2019’s Acoustic Guitarist of the Year?
- Could you be 2019’s Guitarist of the Year?
- Superbooth 2019: Erica Synths doubles-up on the low-end with the new Double Bass Eurorack module
- Clutch's Jean-Paul Gaster: “For me, drumming is a meditation”
- String Theory EFX updates Tevatron Fuzz and KE/64 Overdrive pedals
- Superbooth 2019: Super 6 hybrid polysynth is coming and it looks beastly
- Rig tour: Blood Red Shoes
- Whitesnake's Reb Beach: "I was stoned out of my brain - that’s how I learned how to play guitar!"
- Skreddy seeks to give your tone some Rubber Soul with new overdrive pedal
- Pioneer DJ’s SQUID gives you an ocean of creative sequencing opportunities
- Fractal Audio takes the fight to Line 6 with FM3 compact amp modeller and multi-effects pedal
- Uli Behringer responds to reports that MIDI on the MS-101 synth doesn’t work properly
April 23
- Electro-Harmonix unveils Switchblade Pro switching pedal
- Framus brings the Idolmaker to its lower-priced D-Series
- John Mayer upsets the gear apple cart once more as he uses Axe-Fx live
- Bandcamp is making it easy to release your music on vinyl, and there’s no financial risk
- Steinberg Studio Sessions: Michael Gray
- This madcap guitarist 3D-printed his way to a 38-fret guitar
- The Mixed In Key Studio Edition plugin brings realtime key detection to your DAW
- John Petrucci: “People don’t want any old noodling thing that they’ll fast-forward; your solos need to give them something that’s part of the composition”
April 22
- Dean Mark: “There were a lot of jam nights. I went to them all! If I could get up and play, I would”
April 19
- Free hybrid drum samples: Big electronic kicks
- Historic hardware: 1958 Gibson Les Paul Custom
- Doorly: 5 things I’ve learned about music production
- 5 minutes alone - Taylor Guitars' Andy Powers: "My guitar playing and building have always gone together"
April 18
- 88 EASY MUSIC THEORY TIPS – Computer Music issue 269 is out now
- Hear how Boss plans to change the tube amp game with this in-studio Waza Tube Amp Expander demo
- HeadRush launches feature-packed Looperboard with 7” touch display
- A beginner's guide to choosing the right guitar cab for recording
- The Conspirators drummer Brent Fitz - "I talk to Slash about this. We both go, ‘Man, I was nervous tonight’"
- ValhallaDelay: "Our take on classic and modern delay and echo units"
- Joe Satriani teams up with IK Multimedia, with future collaborations on the way
- Lorna Thomas: “I have an Aria Pro II SB60 fretless as I’m a massive John Taylor fan”
- MWM has begun shipping Phase, its long-awaited wireless DVS controller for DJs
- Boss adds GT-1000 bass guitar support, new footswitch modes and more in V3 update
- Watch Yvette Young deliver ice-cool tapping licks in this super-serious winter guitar playthrough
- MuLab 8 brings flexible audio, timestretching and workflow enhancements to the underdog DAW
- Way Huge debuts Conspiracy Theory Professional Overdrive pedal
April 17
- Guitar virtuoso Plini and Neural DSP release amp modelling plugin
- Barefaced Audio GX cabinets are the world’s lightest and most powerful 10” and 12” guitar cabs
- TC Electronic unveils PolyTune 3 Mini & Noir
- Legendary 60s/70s Pink Floyd disk delay incoming as a plugin
- Hear Massive X for the first time
- iOS sequencer Auxy can now export to Ableton Live
- Amirali's favourite music software
- Busted: “We were just really successful and people couldn’t really wrap their heads around that”
April 16
- Andrew Davie of Bear’s Den: the 10 records that changed my life
- Beat Bars' MIDI Adapters control your plugins with a footswitch or expression pedal
- Fender unveils 3 jaw-dropping Game of Thrones Custom Shop guitars
- This 3D-printed metal guitar is unsmashable - just ask Yngwie Malmsteen
- What do you call a drum synth with 500 drum sounds, 500 samples and 500 MIDI clips?
- Meet the programmers: Cherry Audio
- Sheptone releases the Wanker humbucker (yes, really)
- TXR1 is a drum machine with blending, layering and instant grooves
- Gibson begins countdown to new electric guitar launches
- Fender kicks off Rarities series with Flame Maple Top Stratocaster
- Guitar round table: Between The Buried And Me / Plini / Tesseract
April 15
- Walrus Audio unveils ethereal Slö Multi Texture Reverb
- ToneSpot Acoustic Pro is a channel strip dedicated to acoustic instruments
- Jordan Rudess: "To go from not practising the guitar much at all to trying an eight-string was definitely intense"
- Classic Album: Utah Saints on Two
- Reaktor 6.3 introduces patching from the front panel
- Acorn Amps releases the Petito
- Carl Martin revs up Panama overdrive pedal
- Behringer will start its Eurorack journey with the 104 skiff case
- Tal Wilkenfeld: “I’m a completely different bass player now. When I was in Jeff Beck’s band, I hadn’t even been playing for four years!”
- Analog delay fans, rejoice: MXR has made a Carbon Copy Mini
- Review round-up: budget relic'd electric guitars
- Robert Fripp: The Crimson King returns
April 14
- Novation releases Aphex Twin-themed Bass Station II update for Avril 14th
April 12
- Buzzzy! is an affordable 16-voice polysynth and needs your help on Kickstarter
- Synergy Amps unveils 3 new guitar amp modules, including collaborations with Friedman and Engl
- Bogdan Raczynski: 5 things I’ve learned about music production
- Mr Black’s new spring reverb pedal is Super Swell
- Watch Feed Me deconstruct the creation of Satanic Panic
- Me and my guitar: Mike Dawes
- 5 minutes alone - Gus G: “The biggest misconception about me is that I’m this mechanical shred machine”
- Fender’s Jazz Bass just became a guitar with The Sixty-Six
- Dream Theater drummer Mike Mangini: "I play like a Bruce Lee punch”
April 11
- Superbooth 2019: DinSync’s Roland Jupiter- inspired JP-One synth is coming and you can see it in action
- Superbooth 2019: Superlative Instruments teases rechargeable SH-101 synth clone with unique keyboard
- Peavey releases Grind NTB 4, 5 and 6-string basses
- Jonny Lang's top 5 tips for guitarists: "Think of solos like a conversation"
- In pictures: highlights of David Gilmour's astonishing guitar auction
- Jack White becomes first guitarist to get an Acoustasonic Tele from Fender’s Custom Shop
- Loopcloud 4 is here and comes with a new Loop Editor
- Watch John Mayer and Ed Sheeran join forces with PRS Silver Sky guitars
- Remix Itchycoo Park using Eventide plugins and win a prize worth more than $3,000
- Review round-up: boost pedals
April 10
- Blast from the past: New England Digital Synclavier
- The Twisted Electrons TherapKid chiptune synth offers the best of both SID chipset worlds
- Brainworx unleashes its first virtual synth, the bx_oberhausen, and it's polyphonic
- Solar Guitars unleashes E1.6FRW and S1.7PB seven-string guitars
- The man who taught Martin Garrix music production is now offering to coach everyone
- The FX files: Uni-Vibe
- Could Roland’s new HP700 range provide the digital piano your home is missing?
- Vein-Tap’s Saint Blues crams the TS808 into a mini-pedal format
- Becos FX’s CompIQ Pro Stella gives you rack-style compression in a compact pedal
- Alice Cooper bassist Dennis Dunaway: “The competition was The Beatles, The Stones, Hendrix; everybody was trying to do something different”
April 9
- Moog brings back the MF-104M Analog Delay for a limited time, but you might have a long trek to get one
- As Fender releases its Dragon and Mirror replicas, Jimmy Page recounts his Telecaster’s mystical journey
- Fender celebrates 50 years of Led Zeppelin with 4 highly anticipated Jimmy Page Artist Signature Telecasters
- XO from XLN Audio promises to be a "revolutionary new way" of beatmaking
- Avicii’s collaborators explain how they finished his final album
- Fibonacci Guitars unveils Londoner Nigel Price signature model
- Furch taps zebrawood for new Blue Series acoustic guitars
April 8
- Classic Album: 808 State on ex:el
- The Loudness Penalty Plugin will help you prevent online streaming services from turning down your music
- Propellerhead gets its Figure back (and takes back Take)
- If you’re into nostalgic sound design techniques, then the Berna 2 modular soft synth could be for you
- John Mayer: “90 per cent of a guitar to me is the slack in the strings”
- System80 is working on a desktop version of its Eurorack 808 drum machine clone
- Mojotone unveils BlackOut Tweed Select guitar amp
- Make your guitar sound like “absolute garbage” with Mattoverse Electronics’ AirTrash
- Nashville Pussy’s Bonnie Buitrago: “Basslines can be incredible if they are driving and simple, or wild, non-stop jammin’”
- Amazon UK’s Spring Sale means big savings on Echo smart speakers
- Get Amazon Unlimited Music free for 3 months
- The anatomy of your drum kit
- New Genesis album: Remute’s techno long-player can only be played on a Sega Mega Drive
April 5
- Free hybrid drum samples: Layered claps, snaps and snares
- SampleRadar: 254 free Radiosonics samples
- GRiZ: 5 things I’ve learned about music production
- IK Multimedia’s Dimebag Darrell Cowboys From Hell Collection now available on AmpliTube for iPhone and iPad
- Rob Papen is doing some backward thinking as he releases the RP-Reverse plugin
- These Fender Strat and Tele prototypes reveal what might have been
- RockBoard’s MOD 5 is an IR loader, DI and patch bay that takes up no room on your pedalboard
- Billy Sheehan: “To play live is the greatest joy there is”
- Watch Polyphia shred their new DiMarzio signature pickups
- Nektar’s new SE MIDI keyboards could be the cheapest to offer integrated DAW control
April 4
- Blast from the past: Casio SK-1
- Expect more reverb tools from iZotope as it acquires Exponential Audio
- Issue 343 of Future Music is on sale now
- Polyverse announces other-wordly reverb plugin, Comet
- Stompai lets you play drums by mounting your phone to your feet
- It looks like Røde Microphones has created the smallest wireless mic system ever
- Squier launches FSR Classic Vibe ’50s Esquire
- Fender unveils triple-humbucker Limited Mahogany Blacktop Stratocaster
- Jimmy Page’s iconic Stairway To Heaven guitar to go on display
April 3
- A plugin version of the much coveted Buchla 296e module is now available in Softube’s virtual modular software
- Matt Heafy released a double guitar strap and the internet is freaking out about it
- Will you actually use these 3 compressors? Arturia certainly thinks so
- Bedell debuts Brazilian Rosewood Collection acoustic guitars
- Tone makers - Red Panda’s Curt Malouin: “I try to design algorithms that behave in an organic way”
- G&L specs up the offset with Fullerton Deluxe Doheny HH
April 2
- Klevgrand gets into the amp simulator game with Stark
- Teenage Engineering teams up with Ghostly for special edition PO-33 K.O! Pocket Operator
- Eventide brings back the Instant Flanger with mk II plugin
- Musikmesse 2019: Warwick debuts 2 new signature basses for session legend Lee Sklar
- New guitar gear of the month: review round-up (April 2019)
- The new Nord Grand promises the smooth and natural feel of an acoustic grand piano
- Jeff Hughell's 6 tips for bassists: "The wall of sound is good some of the time, but it’s also important for the bass to venture off"
- Spectrasonics’ Omnisphere 2.6 is compatible with more hardware synths and has a pumped-up arpeggiator
- MeeBlip’s geode blends digital synthesis with dirty guitar-style distortion
April 1
- Bobby Sparks II: “It’s better to invest in real instruments. The beautiful thing about owning all the originals is that I never have to keep buying computer stuff"
- Elon Musk discovering Auto-Tune in rap tribute to Harambe is as crazy as it sounds
- New music tech gear of the month: review round-up (April 2019)
- Design your own delays with Stream delay sequencer plugin from Sinevibes
- The best and worst guitar and music tech April Fool’s Day hoaxes
- Synthplex 2019: 1010 Music unleashes desktop groovebox sampler, Blackbox
- 6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear in April
- Catalinbread’s Coriolis Effect combines a sustainer, wah, filter, pitch-shifter and harmonizer
- Periphery’s Jake Bowen - my top 5 tips for guitarists: “Experimentation is a really important part of developing your everything”
- With new timing, velocity and MIDI features, Novation’s Circuit is now a better groovebox than ever