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Mutant is a visually interactive compositional space of cross-platform musical experimentation and transformation - or messing about with sounds in cubes with your mates.
Has there ever been a better time to learn guitar or piano online, or brush up your skills? music2me is giving away a limited number of 6-month subscriptions for just £1. Yes, one pound!
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Imaginando has released FRMS the consonant free hybrid synthesizer that ties Granular up with FM and shoves it through a Subtractive sound engine.
Fender is offering the first 100k users a free 3 month subscription to their online guitar tutorial site Fender Play. The lessons cover guitar, bass and ukulele too in a range of styles.
With many of us stuck indoors (thanks, coronavirus), many are looking for some new tools to keep happy and inspired. Here's a list of free and discounted music gear to put a smile on your face.
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It looks like most of us will be spending a lot of time at home in the coming weeks. To help you make the best of it, Korg is giving away the Kaossilator iOS and Android apps for free!
This musical Easter Egg should work on any Android Wear watch built since 2015, so if you happen to rock one, try the tiny drum machine and let us know how it goes.
The iRig Pro DUO I/O has nicer preamps with more gain, USB-C connections for modern devices, new drivers for PC laptops and Surface tablets, and other welcome refinements.
The tiny UGM 192 records at 24-bit/192kHz and is class-compliant with PC, Mac, Android and iOS devices.
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Roland has announced the GO:LIVECAST live streaming studio for smartphones. It's a hardware/app combo for delivering live streams directly from your phone, without the need for other gear.
Shure is launching the AONIC line of wireless headphones and earphones at CES 2020. The Shure AONIC 50 wireless headphones and AONIC 215 wireless earphones come with adjustable noise cancelling.
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A mini mash-up of two of TC Electronics' most popular effects pedals, the new Hall of Fame 2 Mini Reverb and Flashback 2 Mini Delay both use the company's footswitch expression technology.
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These headphones have a Katana amp stuffed in, with bags of amp sounds and effects! Oh, and there's some 3D spatial imaging tech going on in there, too. The perfect home practise set-up?
The new Fender Songs app has launched for Apple iPhone, letting you learn the chords to over 750,000 new tunes whilst you jam along on your guitar, banjo or keyboard. Lyrics? Yes. Tabs? No.
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The latest Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 FLOOR packs in a 200-Watt power amp, four channels, digital effects, FX loop, pre-FX loop, a built-in Red Box AE+ and an IEM mixer. Wow.
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So V1 was already pretty good... Now Yamaha has added new goodies to the THR series. V2 covers the desktop 10-30W range and adds Bluetooth, lots of amp models, a mobile editor and other neat stuff.
