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Best pianos 2025: Our pick of acoustic and digital options for home, studio and stage
Here’s our pick of the best pianos - and the best piano brands - including Yamaha, Casio, Nord, Roland and more…
What’s better than the Roland Space Echo? The RE-501 Chorus Echo, of course, and Nembrini Audio has just brought it back as a plugin
$30 gets you an emulation of a 1980 classic
When Derrick May sold Frankie Knuckles his 909, and house music was born: "This is a Roland 909 drum machine, and it's going to take us to the future. It'll be the foundation of music for the next 10 years"
"I've been in love with that drum machine ever since"
6 of the best vintage reverb emulations
From emulations of classic physical plate reverbs to digital emulations of, er, digital reverbs, here are the best
6 unofficial ROMpler emulation plugins that bring classic ‘80s and ‘90s PCM sounds to your DAW
If you yearn for the days of the Yamaha SY85, can’t get enough of old E-MUs or want to get your Kawai kicks for free, read on
Roland’s TR-8S and TR-6S drum machines get CR-78 and 808 bass instrument sounds added for free
These already excellent beatmaking boxes just got even better
Roland S-1 Tweak Synthesizer review
The S-1 is one of the smallest polysynths on the market but there’s more here than meets the eye
Arturia drops Acid V, a new plugin emulation of Roland’s TB-303 Bass Line synth
Does the world need another take on the 303? Yes, apparently
