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.
Skwitch is a springy dome of musical control that translates your fingering into expressive gestures through the squishing of a buttock-like interface - just make sure your hands are warm.
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Someone made a guitar out of 107 Apple iPhones, and shaping them into a Tele-style instrument. But will it run iOS13 and exactly how safe are all those old lithium ion batteries?
Compact, yellow and ever so slightly oddball. Using an integrated camera with advanced image tracking the looperEYE is a looper that goes beyond what you thought was possible from a loop station
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The new Joyo BSK-60 acoustic amp is crammed with features for musicians on the move: a Li-Ion battery, Bluetooth, FX, looper, an included footswitch.... The perfect busking amp for those on a budget?
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Electro-Harmonix is usually associated with guitar effects pedals. Its new consumer product is Bluetooth in-ear earbuds to rival Apple's AirPods. Can EHX take any market share off Apple & co.?
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It's another one of those wearables this time in the shape of a wristband. Mictic will let you play sounds and samples from your phone while you dance about the place.
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After last weeks announcement of the new Boss SY-1 synth pedal, now we have the new Source Audio C4 modular synth pedal! Could Summer NAMM be a massive synth fest, but for guitarists?
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Positive Grid has launched a free trial of its BIAS FX Mobile App, giving you a fully customisable virtual guitar rig for your Apple iPad or iPhone (for two days, at least).
IK Multimedia has made Dimebag Darrell's Cowboys From Hell guitar rig available for Apple iPad or iPhone, so you can now take all his legendary tones for a walk!
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The NUX Mighty BT20 has four channels, each with four sound presets available, potentially making this a versatile little practice amp. An app controls the onboard tones via Bluetooth.
Can an $18 iOS app can revolutionize speaker placement for live sound? The four modules included here use Augmented Reality and some pretty nifty tech to provide features we've never seen before.
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If you have the room for authentically sampled Mellotron tapes on your iOS device then Mellotronics Streetlytron Pro will serve you up some classically trippy tape-based sounds.
A new guitar amp that can process effects from a smartphone app and attaches to your guitar. Is Jamstack the perfect practise guitar amp solution for guitarists on the move?
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Part of Source Audio's new C4 Synth series the Spectrum Intelligent Filter is purple, well funky and can give you synth sounds, envelope filtering, octave and harmonizer effects.
French acoustic guitar firm Lâg Guitars has melded custom designs with the HyVibe System. No cables, cables or extra amplification needed with this new acoustic range.
New busker orientated portable amp, the new Blackstar Black Fly is an expanded and upgraded version of the ever-popular Fly series of mini amps. A busker's best friend?
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IK launches a new portable, iPhone-friendly practise amp with mini speaker: the IK Multimedia iRig Micro Amp could be the perfect practise and recording tool for guitarists.
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The Amplitube iOS 4.7 version brings new licensed amp models and effects, including gear by Dr Z, Jet City, Orange, Carvin, Morley, T-Rex, Seymour Duncan and Wampler.
Eventide's H9 effect platform is good choice for players that like variety in the available sound palette - its 50th algorithm is a monophonic synth effect covering 70s and 80s synths.
Black Friday is nearly upon us and Fender want to get in on the action early. Play subscribers can get 10% off any Fender gear ordered on the company's online store.
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With the OP-Z they plan to push more boundaries, annoy more people and reach new levels of hipster smugness. 16 tracks of sequencing covering drums, synths, sampling, MIDI, CV, lights and video - and it's tiny.
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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.
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New into the Apple App Store is Ribn, an organic repeating modulation generator that you can run into any MIDI device. Record looping oscillations or complex finger movements for fabulously spontaneous control.
