Cover of Jamiroquai’s “Virtual Insanity” produced in a VR studio

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?

Euclidean Circles V2 dazzles rhythms onto your Eurorack

Vladimir Pantelic has released a new version of his awesomely bright and groovy Euclidean Circles. Featuring a new manual step edit mode and an F button that can be anything you want.

KHDK Unicorn Blood fuzz & octave pedal: Put the coffee on and get dirty!

Chicago's Dark Matter Coffee and KHDK Electronics have worked together to release the limited edition Unicorn Blood fuzz pedal and they got Brent Hinds to demo it!

Earthquaker Devices Aqueduct: A vibrato pedal with My Bloody Valentine setting

With eight distinct modulation modes including a 'My Bloody Valentine' setting, plus a rather useful Flexi Switch system to momentarily engage the effect easily when required.

Samsung’s Thunderbolt 3 X5 external SSD can shovel 20 GB of data in 12s

Samsung's brand-new portable SSD, the X5, lets you haul around up to 2TB terabytes of audio (the most expensive model) and other data, transferred from your computer over Thunderbolt 3.

Blue Microphones launches Yeti Nano 99-dollar USB mic

The mic is designed like a tiny replica of the original Yeti and it has switchable pickup patterns - single and omnidirectional - so you are able to pick-up reflections and tone from the room as well.

Spectrasonics Omnisphere 2.5 Hardware Synth Integration finally arrives

It's taken them a while to release the 2.5 update we first saw at NAMM but it's been worth the wait. Omnishere 2.5 Hardware Synth Integration is immense and the most extraordinary thing I've seen in a long ...

GotoEQ plug-in does Pultec tricks, modern-style

GotoEQ does a Pultec, with dual Boost and Attenuate controls for the low shelving EQ and it also handles the high end. There's continuous frequency selection for zoning in onto a specific frequency, too.

Reason Compact: Europa Synthesizer in the iOS palm of your hand

It's not Reason, not even a compact version - Reason Compact is the excellent Europa synthesizer in an iPhone form factor with smart keyboard and arpeggiator. It's a synth - don't be confused by the name.

Can Tascam crack the mid-sized digital mixer/interface market with Model 24?

Tascam announces a new medium-format digital mixer/recorder/interface: the Model 24, with 24-track, 48kHz sound capture and recording across 22 audio channels and a stereo main mix bus.

Electrix: Led Zeppelin’s Hohner Electra Piano T sampled and free

Electrix steals the sound of the Hohner Electra Piano T from Stairway to Heaven, No Quarter and Down by the Seaside and gives a rare opportunity to sample Led Zeppelins sonic character.

Seymour Duncan Fooz pedal: Wobbly synth-style fuzz for your guitar

Fuzz, filters and LFOs. What more could an effects pedal junkie ask for? Seymour Duncan's new Fooz pedal aims to give you as many options as possible to tweak as possible in one box.

Erica Synths Techno System gets a price and release date

Erica Synths ultimate banging Techno System is nearly upon us and as they slowly release the individual modules they've just revealed the release date and the price for the full system.

Bob Moog Foundation raffle offers up 3 classic Moog synthesizers

The Bob Moog Foundation Trifecta Raffle is giving you the chance to win one of three classic Moog synthesizers for the fabulous cause of supporting the development of the new Moogseum. Tickets $25.

Denise Transient Booster lets you target transient peaks and width

DTB is a deceptively simple-looking plug-in with quite a lot of flexibility and power, with continuous attack and release controls for adjusting the length of transients and removing artefacts.

Fender Japan announces new FSR 6- and 12-string Stratocasters and a Jazzmaster

Fender Japan has for many years made models that have never been sold officially outside their home market. These new FSR models will be available for everyone to buy.

Forward Audio faTimeAlign is a cutting-edge phase alignment plug-in

Dealing with phase or time alignment issues? Check out Forward Audio's slick and comprehensive new tool called faTimeAlign which has a lot to offer but is also reasonably priced.

Moog Music announces that Moogerfooger has reached the end of the line

After 20 years of making these strange, old-fashioned looking stomp boxes Moog Music has decided to call it a day on the Moogerfooger range of products.

RHA introduces CL2 Planar – the first planar magnetic in-ear wireless headphones

Manufacturer RHA presented an innovative pair of premium wireless earphones. The aptly named CL2 Planar stand out with the first-time use of planar magnetic drivers inside in-ears and a hefty price tag.

Best free plug-ins this week: ModulAir, Vintage Electric Piano, Landscape

It's Sunday, which means it's time for some free plug-ins! We have three wonderful free instruments to introduce today: a full-fledged modular synth system, a film-like drone maker, and an electric piano.

A splash of autumn colour: Solar Guitars announces new finishes for A2.6C

Ola Englund's Solar Guitars adds a splash of autumn colour with new finishes for its A2.6C six-string model. Now you have more than just 'Stealth' black to choose from at last!

Melu Instruments tease something spectacular in a groovebox styli

Freak makers Melu Instruments have started to tease a new desktop device that's "a little bit more than a synth or a sequencer" and could possibly take grooveboxes to a new dimension. What do you think it is?

Mystic Circuits experiment with intersections in the ANA ring modulating module

ANA is a 6-in-1 ring modulating utility module that experiments with the intersecting activity of audio and voltage signals. Put something in and get 6 things out that can be as weird as you want to push them.

Erica Synths release the Techno inspired Dual Drive and Drum Stereo Mixer

More modules from the forthcoming Techno System - Dual Drive gives you 2 channels of 3 flavours of distortion and the Drum Stereo Mixer provides a destination for your processed beats.