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The legendary guitar riff meister and 'part-time crazy man of metal' has been working with Orange amps on a signature amplifier and it is a fair bit cheaper than the Friedman Butterslax...
The other thing Jason Bourne found in that Swiss bank lockbox was a semi-modular analogue synthesizer in a bulletproof box with MIDI loop sequencer and patch points. Treadstone was his DJ name.
Now you can remix other people's loop packs on any computer in the cool, browser-based Launchpad Arcade from Novation Music. You can even use it with the hardware Launchpad if you have it.
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Developed by Sensomusic and La Muse En Circuit, MusineKit 2 brings a playful and creative musical box of modules to touch, control, manipulate and mess about with on Windows or MacOS. Pure joyfulness.
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This week's round-up of pedals includes an insane amount of time from a looper pedal, a boutique French fuzz pedal, new improved bass preamps/overdrives and possibly the cheapest volume pedal on the market.
An emerald green-clad reissue of the ever-popular Fender Blues Deluxe amplifier, this new upgraded version is part of a limited run for 2017 as part of Fender's FSR series...
A whole slew of new EHX products have been leaked via Instagram and it looks like the New York pedal builder has been very busy indeed, with pedals, amps and cabs to be added to its line-up...
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Through real time audio sampling the PLUS Pedal can capture the end of notes and chords from any instrument or microphone and sustain them at the press of a beautiful brass pedal. Is it too hipster?
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The Black VC EG and the Expander offer a full ADSR with individual stage CV control, and CV or Gate output, along with looping, retriggering and three types of output.
Mooer are out to prove they can offer a shedload of useful features on a lightweight solution at a low price. But is the new Red Truck multi-effect slowed down by too many compromises?
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Polyrhythms, arpeggiation, rolls, pattern chaining and Volca compatibility are amongst some of the new features added to the Arturia BeatStep Pro in the bumper 2.0 update.
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Can this Californian amp giant conquer the acoustic amplifier market? This new model looks feature packed and could be the strong start they need to make an impression on acoustic players.
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This new British-voiced micro valve head manages to squeeze so much into its tiny casing and is still cheaper than most overdrive pedals.
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Based around a set of 6L6 power tubes, with two channels and with four modes, it looks like they have packed a lot into this new 100 watt head.
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Digitakt is a sampling, sequencing, computer drumming, beat making powerhouse in a rather dull box. It's now available so check out the video for a tour of the workflow, then go buy one.
This new pedal looper for active basses is the latest pedal-friendly switcher from Japanese company Providence and has their handy Vitalizer circuit onboard too.
These two new combos have been hotly anticipated and should be hitting UK dealers about now.
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Future Retro release a video of their first Eurorack module called Transient and it's got a lot of drums in it.
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Analog Strings combines sampled orchestra with vintage synths and weird tape loops, controlled by wires of pulsing liquorice. Have they found a different take on the string sound library?
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This new Tonebone North-Star drive pedal has plenty of clean boost on tap, and a handy effects loop to boot!
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Dwarfcraft have cooked up a slew of new ways to mangle your sounds, including the nefarious DinDinDin control. Sounds like something between glitch heaven and sonic chaos...
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Get your groove on with the dynamic sequencing of 4 loop engines, effects and mixing in Rhythmology. But is it more than a loop library?
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Blocs Wave gets an update so it can export directly into Novation's other iOS app, Launchpad, making a very useful loop creator
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Qu-Bit release Contour, their looping, chaining Quad Envelope generator.
