ESP/LTD Guitars announce no more Rosewood use due to CITES

ESP has come in line with worldwide CITES regulations and they now have an official page on their site explaining how they will be achieving this in 2017.

Sneaky! Walrus Audio hide secret ‘Easter Egg’ delay mode in the ARP-87 pedal

Walrus Audio has secretly built an Easter Egg function into its pedal - with the right button combinations, you can access a hidden 5th delay mode!

Vermona release two new Eurorack modules: uniCYCLE and quadraPOL

uniCYCLE is an analog oscillator with 6 waveforms and PWM. quadroPOL is a polarising VCA with hidden depths as a ring modulator, attenuator, inverter and CV source. Pure understated Vermona quality.

Superior Drummer 3: More drums, 10 times the Gigabytes

Thought you had enough drums with the 20GB in Superior Drummer 2? Oh no, Superior Drummer 3 has 230GB of drums, just drums, over just 6 kits. It's the biggest drum source ever!

Face Pedals seek your backing for Eric, a valve-powered mini overdrive pedal

Utilising Russian fighter aircraft components to squeeze valve technology into a smaller format overdrive pedal, will this new Kickstarter campaign take off?

PolyGAS 2.0: a Russian flatulence-free advanced granular VSTi

PolyGAS is a very capable granular synth. It's easy to use, it has a good range of preset sounds and wave files, looks fabulous and works a treat. And it's free. That's very useful indeed.

Fender Supreme skateboard Stratocaster drops on Instagram

An all-white limited edition Stratocaster based around the Supreme skateboard brand has just dropped on Instagram - and it looks like it could be very expensive indeed.

The Morphologist and DR.110 REDUX drum machine from Sound Machinery

New kids on the block Sound Machinery launch their first two products for Kontakt, The Morphologist synthesizer and DR.110 REDUX. And to celebrate you can have the drum machine for free.

F-Pedals’ Nikaos mini distortion pedal: Howling at the moon?

A new dynamic distortion pedal designed for Greek producer Nikolas Farmakalidis, the lupine-themed Nikaos drive pedal has some great tones on tap, all of which can be accessed via your guitar's volume knob.

Suhr Finish Over Finish Classic Antique guitars – Oh dear…

When you make excellent guitars and undoubtedly some of the nicest boutique models in current production in the world, why would you ruin them with a poor relic finish?

Fender ’50s FSR Stratocaster and a P-90 Telecaster

When Fender decides to do an FSR version of their back catalogue you sometimes get something really special. Of course, that also means sometimes you don't.

Soundless: a ponderous power synth from TopSounds

Soundless is a cool little VST synthesizer with a fierce amount of resonance and loudness. It's the first VSTi from TopSounds and they believe it's going to be the best thing ever!

Fender Blues Junior III Bordeaux Reserve Limited Edition amp

This is the latest in Fender's FSR Series and comes with some subtle 'fruity' upgrades that should make the tone as smooth as a fine Malbec. This Fender Special Run should appeal to you all cork sniffers.

Electro-Harmonix Cock Fight Plus Fuzz Wah

The new Cock Fight Plus looks like it could take on the big boys in the fight for who makes the toughest wah pedal, with the most features, especially if the price is right.

Mix, scratch and drop beats with Google’s Hip-Hop anniversary doodle

Today's Google Doodle is celebrating the 44th anniversary of the birth of the Hip-Hop break. You'll find an eclectic box of records and a pair of turntables to play them on - go do your DJ thing.

UAD version 9.3 introduces the Korg SDD-3000 delay plus 4 new plug-ins

Universal Audio's UAD DSP platform brings in some meaty plug-ins with a Korg delay, a classic auto-panner, dynamic EQ, authentic ENGL amp with matched impedance and an expanded vintage reverb.

Dr Strangelove: a SynthBlock atomic bomb of ring modulation

Analogue Solutions announce the second in their desktop analogue SynthBlock series. Dr Strangelove is a fabulous yellow ring modulator with some explosive artwork. Let's hope it sounds as good as it looks.

AliveInVR: Virtual Reality controller for Ableton Live

AliveInVR will place you in a virtual 3D space with a silver helmet and robot hands to trigger scenes and clips, drums and instruments in Ableton Live. Time for some serious arm ache.

Win a vintage Memorymoog Plus in the Moog Foundation summer raffle

A vintage 1984 Memorymoog Plus synthesizer is up for grabs in this summer's Bob Moog Foundation raffle. The "Plus" version has MIDI and a sequencer and it's worth $10,000 for a $25 ticket.

Sound Forge Audio Studio 12: Magix reinvigorates the Sony audio editor

Sound Forge spent a long time at Sony without much development. New owners Magix have released their first update to the entry level version and it looks like they've done a decent job.

PRS Guitars S2 Vernon Reid Signature VR Vela

Living Colour's Vernon Reid has been touting a customised Vela for a few years now and finally it is available for a limited time from PRS to actually buy at long last.

Is this Behringer’s SH-101 clone? Image of MS-101 appears on Facebook

Behringer post a mysterious image on Facebook of what appears to be an action shot of an MS-101 synthesizer complete with modulation grip - is this an SH-101 clone?

Behold the Photon Hunter: a steampunk ambient sound extractor

An extraordinary object for extracting hidden layers of sound from the ambient environment, the Photon Hunter will take you on many strange adventures.

Roland SH-01A: The Boutique reissue of the SH-101 is finally here

Here it is, the Boutique synthesizer we've all been waiting for. Roland announces the SH-01A, their 4 voice polyphonic ACB reissue of the classic SH-101.