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Free and discounted music content to keep you inspired in isolation

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.

Euphoria amp sim uses neural networking to recreate a Bogner Ecstasy

Based on an iconic tube guitar amplifier Bogner Ecstasy 101B, Mercuriall Audio's Euphoria uses neural networking to create some - frankly stunning - amp tones in your DAW.

GranuRise: immersive sonic interaction and complex sound structures of samples and synthesis

GranuRise is strange and deeply fascinating using expressive interaction to process sample-based sources through semi-prepared generative structures. It's a bit granular, complex and looks amazing.

Get Voltage Modular Nucleus with 22 modules completely free!

Cherry Audio has announced that their entry-level version of Voltage Modular is now free to download. It comes with 22 modules that you can patch together in a virtual Eurorack. Normally it costs €29.

NerdSEQ Portable: the handheld Sampling Tracker Workstation

In a device about the size of a GameBoy XOR Electronics is introducing the NerdSEQ Portable featuring 8 tracks of tracker style sequencing, sampling, modulation, effects and synthesis. Now with video!

Moog Minimoog Model D vintage virtual synth for iOS is now free

Looking for a distraction? The excellent Moog Minimoog Model D virtual vintage synthesizer is now available to download for free from the Apple App Store.

Coronavirus: Worries mount over effect on music industry in 2020

Update: Coronavirus is hitting musicians and music gear makers hard, with cancelled events, postponed tours and gigs... Will governments step in with financial help for those affected?

Magix Sound Forge Pro 14 and Suite are here – what’s new?

Magix has released Sound Forge Pro 14 and Sound Forge Pro 14 Suite. The new version of the long-standing audio editor comes with workflow improvements, better visualization and performance tweaks. 

Polyend Tracker: A standalone audio workstation with sampler, synthesizer and FM!

It's here! After some annoyingly blurry teaser images, a new video has surfaced that shows us a whole lot more about Polyend's new product: Tracker is a full-on audio workstation! Here's the latest.

Sampleson has sucked the DNA out of the Rhodes Suitcase 73 into the Suit73 VSTi

Using their magical second-generation spectral modelling engine Sampleson has analysed the Fender Rhodes Suitcase 73 and squeezed it down to a 35MB virtual instrument.

Hit’n’Mix Infinity “atomic” audio editor updated to version 4.5

Hit'n'Mix has updated the Infinity 4.5 audio editing software. Infinity lets you edit individual notes in your audio tracks and provides a MIDI-like workflow. Version 4.5 comes with many improvements.

The Supro Blues King 10 gives you 5 Watts, Fat and plenty of trimmings

Supro‘s Blues King 10 is the third iteration of the Blues King concept, this time with 5 Watts, an 8-inch speaker and enough trimmings to make it an interesting proposition for home and studio use.

Best free plug-ins this week: Lovend, Transature and CubicPadSynth

This week's collection of free plug-ins includes two new releases by Analog Obsession and an experimental wavetable synthesizer. That's three new freeware plug-ins to keep you busy this Sunday!

8 overdrive pedals in 1: Joyo Baatsin R-11

New in the Revolution series: The Joyo Baatsin R-11. Looking inconspicuous, the R-11 packs in 8 overdrives and distortions in one pedal - and all are generated using analog components.

Rumour: Apple to launch 14.1” MacBook Pro with Mini LED display

Rumours are sweeping the tech world that Apple is preparing a broadside of new MacBook Pros, iMacs and iPads - including a new 14.1" MacBook Pro size that should please musicians.

Musikmesse postponed due to Covid-19: Superbooth and Summer NAMM next?

Covid-19 a.k.a. Coronavirus is starting to affect our little music instruments world - Musikmesse will be postponed, its organisers say. Will Superbooth and Summer NAMM go ahead?

Ultra-rare Fender Marauder offset re-imagined – with a built in delay effect

The Fender Marauder is a super-rare prototype guitar from 1965, re-imagined by the Custom Shop in 2020 for guitarist Matthew Logan Vasquez - it even comes with a built-in delay effect!

Behringer introduces the KIRN Corksniffer: Vintage sourced cork-knobbed synth

Behringer takes a swipe at synth snobs with a video introducing the KIRN Corksniffer. Has the discussion about vintage authenticity got too silly or has Behringer turned nasty? Update: video's been pulled.

TC Electronic unchains the Icon Series Legacy plug-ins from their controllers

TC Electronic has released native versions of the Icon Legacy Series plug-ins. From now on, the DVR250, TC1210, TC8210 and TC2290 plug-ins don't require the desktop controllers anymore.

Electro-Harmonix Oceans 12: new demo video goes online

Drive two stereo reverbs in parallel or in series! The Electro-Harmonix Oceans 12 pedal can do that and more. Dive into the full details of EHX's new reverb machine here.

Steinberg introduces the UR24C audio interface

Steinberg has just told us about the UR24C USB-C audio interface, with two inputs with D-PRE mic pres, four outputs and MIDI In/Out. Oh, and DJs will like the RCA outputs, too.

Guild Starfire I Semi-Hollowbody: Budget Semis for all!

Fancy getting your first semi-hollow guitar? Take a look at the new Guild Starfire I range, available as a single- or double-cut and with an optional Bigsby trem at a very decent price.

PreSonus adds 7-inch Eris E7 XT to its studio monitor range

Like its brethren, the Eris E7 XT features a custom Eliptically Boundary Modeled waveguide which is designed for a 100-degree wide "sweet spot" - and it's attractively priced, too.

Ratchet: Eurorack drum brain for deep thinking rhythms from Schottkey Modular

Ratchet is the first module from Lia Harmon of Schottkey Modular and it's an impressively deep dive into the nature of beat making and rhythm composing in Eurorack.