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We test drive Roland's beginner-friendly arranger keyboard

The Roland E-X50 is the latest in Roland’s E-series of arranger keyboards, building on the legacy of the original E-20, which launched over thirty years ago as one of the first “professional” arranger ...
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“It’s shocking, it’s disheartening, it’s insulting – most importantly – it’s a wake up call”: Cardiff band decry the fact AI ‘band’ trained on their music ...

The AI ‘band’ in question is Bleeding Verse, who, according to its Youtube channe,l are: “inspired by artists like Dayseeker and Holding Absence, we blend ambient textures, soaring vocals, and poetic ...
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“It possesses the horsepower to remain clean, even at the loudest volumes, and handles – and delivers – the highest dynamic content from your picking hand”: Mes…

Loved by the likes of John Petrucci, the Mark IIC+ HRG presents super-clean tone at super-high volume and a super-tight ...
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"Legendary analogue sound for the whole band": Universal Audio launches Volt 876 USB Recording Studio, the first rackmount interface in the Volt series

A 24-in/28-out audio interface equipped with eight tube-emulating Vintage mic preamps and eight 1176-style compressors, Volt 876 is an affordable alternative to Apollo at $999 ...
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“I drove everyone crazy with it because I was the only one who noticed at first, but once I pointed it out we all heard it and wanted it gone”: The curious case of The ...

We came to realize that it was the result of the combination of The Weeknd’s unique vocal timbre and the hyping of compression and high-end,” says front of house engineer Derek Brener ...
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“You can turn an Epiphone into the Tommy Bolin Burst!”: Seymour Duncan expands Joe Bonamassa signature pickup range with a humbucker set based on the PAFs from his 1960 ...

Joe Bonamassa and Seymour Duncan have unveiled a new signature humbucker set based on the very same electric guitar pickups that are in the blues guitar superstar’s 1960 Gibson ‘Bolin Burst’ Les Paul ...
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"The 808 is still one of the sexiest drum machines ever built": Modeselektor on classic Roland gear, their new DJ-Kicks mix and why the iPhone has become their go-to instrument

Housed in a new studio, Berlin’s favourite sonic troublemakers crash the DJ-Kicks series with a shape-shifting techno-industrial mix. We sit down with Sebastian Szary to find out more ...
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“The first Roland drum machine in over 40 years with true analogue voices”: The TR-1000 combines analogue 808 and 909 recreations with the best parts of the TR-8S and more

Roland's new flagship beat machine also offers stereo-sampling, loop slicing, probability sequencing and much more ...
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"It means a lot to me because the greatest feeling in my life, truly, is playing new music for people and seeing their reactions": David Guetta is the World’s Number One DJ ...

Other awards on the night were presented to Van Buuren for ‘World’s Number One Trance DJ and Outstanding Contribution’, Sara Landry (World’s Number One Hard DJ), Jazzy (Future Star), Dimitri Vegas and ...
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“Our guitars, bass guitar, cymbals, snare, and my pedal board were stolen last night”: Indie rockers The Beths appeal for leads

New Zealand indie outfit The Beths have become the latest group to be hit by gear theft. A fairly major one too – they’ve lost some guitars, a bass and their entire backline – which was rented. Among ...
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“I remember when I first heard it. Big deal for me – I loved it immediately. It’s all over Rosanna, all over Africa”: Toto’s Steve Porcaro names his Top 5 synths

“Even today, it’s hard to beat the sound of that filter and the analogue grit. I got one when they first came out and I’m told there are some YouTube clips out there of me showing what it can do in 19 ...
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Tame Impala's synth company announces worldwide release date for Orchid and unveils companion plugin

Last year, Tame Impala's Kevin Parker set up a synth company called Telepathic Instruments and announced a debut product: Orchid.