Online music gear retailer thomann is running an interestingly themed competition, #MyEpicMusicStory, with a main prize worth grasping for: a €200 voucher you can cash in on its online shop.
Fed up with emails flogging "great deals" on software? This one is worth checking out: Ozone Elements 8 is going for (nearly) nothing, that's USD 129 off. Just spend $1 and give them your data.
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If you're a musician and VR enthusiast you're going to love this video: a song produced completely in virtual reality. But is VR music production the next big thing?
We do love a good product shoot-out at gearnews.com - and here are 8 reverbs from very different price points pitted against each other in a Reverb World Cup - watch out for the dark horse!
The new version of Steinberg's scoring software Dorico is now offered in two versions, Pro and Elements, the latter being priced for the amateur and entry-level market.
Shane, presenter of the In The Blues YouTube channel has a video presenting some of the more, shall we say, remarkable guitars out there. Some of these you will not believe.
Get all the latest news and rumours from Berlin's Superbooth 2018 event! Be it stand-alone synths, Eurorack modules or other digital music production gear, keep up to date here.
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Musikmesse 2018 is well under way, and although the show has got a lot smaller overall over the last few years, we nosed around and managed to dig up some nice bits of gear for your perusal. Have we missed ...
Hiwatt has chosen Musikmesse 2018 to launch the DR401, a full-on 400 W bass amp head built at its Custom Shop facility in Doncaster, England, incorporating a total of 12 valves!
Siberia's AMT Electronics has a new set of 5 "Blocks", tube-powered overdrive/preamp pedals - in a mini-sized enclosure - with future plans to launch a modular pedalboard system.
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We've just received an image of a new synth apparently being built by ROLI and Moog, looking like a hybrid of the Memorymoog and the ROLI Seaboard! So, how much would you pay for this thing?
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Rupert Neve Designs brought a new 8-channel, remote-controllable, Dante-compatible mic pre for live sound applications to NAMM: the RMP-D8, its first Dante interface.
Beatskillz' new label/imprint Tone Empire has releases Goliath, a retro-styled saturation/colouration plug-in that lets you do the usual adding of mojo and tone without thinking too much about the details.
Elektron seems to have registered the name "Digitone" worldwide - could this be a new product in the works? A synth, perhaps, in the form factor of a Digitakt? Speculation is rife.
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Andrew Huang uses audio sampled from a piano being dropped from 20 ft to create a cool beat, and makes the whole process look so impressively easy, spontaneous and intuitively musical.
