Gig Performer: Live rig for your plug-ins

Gig Performer is a plug-in host for live performance that lets you create your own multi-touchable front panel controls for your whole rig. Looks dated but the functionality is cutting edge.

ACPAD: The future of busking is here

A wireless MIDI controller that wraps around your acoustic guitar. ACPAD turns you into a busking electronic, looping, beat making, orchestrating genius.

The return of Sonar Home Studio from Cakewalk

Sonar Home Studio is back in a brand new version with new tools, effects, instruments and a touchable interface - where have you been?

Resurface: a new marketplace for used mixing consoles

A new web portal for selling, buying and servicing used consoles and controllers, 'Resurface', is launched. Can this service change the pro audio market?

Top 5 mini synth stocking fillers under £100

What better thing to find in your stocking on Christmas morning than a fabulous little mini synth? Guaranteed to distract you from all the business of preparing food or talking to relatives. Why watch the ...

Waves get their Wurlitzer on with the Electric 200 Piano

The second piano from Waves doesn't disappoint. The Electric 200 Piano another classic of Wurlitzer goodness.

Phone-Home: Lo-fi xylophone madness, anyone?

Is that a xylophone? No, it's an awesome sampling, looping, pitch shifting, delay reflecting Phone-Home Xylophone for the musician who has everything.

PushPull: Make yourself a radical electro-accordion

Release your inner electro pirate with the PushPull sound shaping squeezebox you can make yourself now the project has become open source.

KHDK Electronics’ Dark Blood pedal: Damn it, Hammett, it’s pure evil!

The Metallica guitarist's new distortion pedal is aimed squarely at those after a huge, heavy guitar sound. All you seekers of crushing riffs may well want to check this one out!

Will the Chandler Abbey Road REDD redefine the microphone?

Chandler and Abbey Road join forces to develop a microphone with the EMI badge: the REDD Microphone - and have come up with a truly exciting product.

Melodyne 4.1 brings better ARA integration and new features

A point update to Melodyne makes ARA integration everything it should have been and all the more reason to switch to a supporting DAW

Blind Dog’s Shepherd: Generic look but unique sounds

Serious synthesis and proper sound design lie behind Blind Dog Design's dull looking Shepherd. But with sounds designed by the likes of Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith you know it's going to be interesting.

Dwarfcraft Devices revisit two fuzz pedals: Baby Thunder and SheFuzz

These two new versions of popular fuzz pedals from the company's back catalogue are offered in a new smaller enclosure - check out these 'gnarly' new fuzz boxes!

The Putney iVCS3 version 2 sneak preview

Alessandro Petrolati's iOS emulation of the EMS VCS3 is about to get to a new version. Here's a sneak preview of iVCS3 2.

Modal CRAFTsynth: a cute, cheap mono-synth you build yourself

CRAFTsynth is a cool looking digital monophonic synthesizer that comes in an easy to assemble DIY kit. It's cute and should probably be on your Christmas list.

Eowave Domino bass synthesizer now available for Eurorack

Eowave have crammed their TB-303 clone Domino into a 10HP Eurorack space and we now have all the details.

Blackstar ID:Core V2 guitar amps: An ideal Christmas gift?

If you are looking for a versatile guitar amp for home use with the flexibility to achieve a variety of sounds, then the ID:Core V2 range could just be what you need.

PRS 2017 Line-up: Cool new updates for the USA models

PRS seem to have done their very best to improve these for 2017 - you should definitely check them out if you like a well-made guitar!

UA announces new ‘flagship’ Ultimate 5 software package

Something seems very dated here. There feels like a lot of marketing hot air involved here. What we need are updated DSP solutions. Maybe NAMM next year?

New Sontronics ‘Mercury’ valve mic spotted!

Our roving reporter caught up with the team from Sontronics at MPX 2016 today, and look what was on the corner of their stand! More to follow about 'Mercury' soon.

MiniLab MkII: Same but different MIDI controller from Arturia

The MiniLab MkII is a small upgrade to the MkI bringing better keys, more advanced pads and some clickable encoders. Shame the wooden cheeks have gone.

‘Mastering by presets’ with iZotope’s Ozone 7 Elements

Love it or hate it, Ozone 7 Elements is here offering 'mastering by presets'. Are iZotope milking their reputation, or should we all be thankful?

Shaping sound with OTO, the polyhedric musical controller

OTO: musical geometric controllers you manipulate in order to make and control music. Creatively profound or boring after five minutes?

Joe Satriani draws on 30 Ibanez guitars: JSART2

Satch has once again collaborated with Ibanez to produce a limited edition of 30 guitars; each JSART2 guitar bears a unique "artwork" done by Joe. In felt-tip marker.