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The LEGO Ideas Fender Stratocaster and matching Princeton Reverb amp kit means you can finally build your own officially licensed guitar gear!
Two grand pianos brought together through sampling and modelling with unique sound characteristics as the mysterious Nameless Grand.
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Sampleson has worked some magic with their spectral modelling to build a piano in software from a patent filed by Leo Fender in 1959 of an electric piano that was never constructed.
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The Elektron Model Sampler gets all its tracks laid bare, hidden parameters revealed and XY pads added in this comprehensive editor plug-in that will run inside your DAW.
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You can now buy a custom aged, relic version of the popular PRS John Mayer Silver Sky signature model. This custom work will add a $400 increase in price, but people will think you gig heavily and that you are ...
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IK Multimedia's MODO Drum pulls out all the stops to model the physical attributes of both the drums and the player in a remarkably detailed study of the humble drum kit.
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This Swiss-designed Mary One guitar uses a unique system of an aluminium body and industrial-strength magnets to allow possibly the easiest pickup swaps ever!
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New Vivo S7 Pro and S3 Pro high-end professional stage pianos hand made in Italy with unlimited polyphony sampled and model sounds and seamless preset switching.
The new Charvel DK24-7 NOVA Angel Vivaldi 7-string signature model is a perfect fit for the New Jersey prog guitarist and looks amazing in that Satin Sage Green with gold hardware finish
Blue Cat Audio has just released the Re-Guitar plugin for your DAW and it allows guitarists to access unlimited guitar tones from a single instrument.
In a weirdly mysterious press release Plugin Alliance and Brainworx announce that they are getting into the virtual instrument game but forget to tell us anything about any actual products.
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Sampleson has taken their Rhodes samples apart and found that they only need to tune sine waves to accurately recreate the entire spectrum of sound. Markus 88 is only 25MB and sounds like a 2GB instrument.
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Roland has added two FM variations to the oscillators on the System-8 featuring 2 operator and 5 operator waveforms. It also gets filters from the Jupiter-8 and Juno-106 amongst other bits and bobs.
3 years after Arturia introduced Spark 2, their uber-versatile software/hardware drum machine, it crawls up to version 2.4 with some bug fixes and a reminder that it's still good.
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Waldorf have picked up the Exodus Valkyrie, the only interesting thing at Musikmesse this year, and turned it into a potentially awesome virtual analog hardware synthesizer called Kyra.
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QD gives 4 channels of sample or modelled drum sounds with shaping controls, metering, internal mixing, muting and panning. Ideal companion to the Euclidean Circles or any other trigger sequencer.
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If your regular LFO is not cutting it then maybe it's time to throw a Wobbler into your Eurorack. An Advanced LFO with physically modelled shapes, phase modulation and cool lights.
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Leaked a few weeks ago via a PRS dealer, the signature PRS John Mayer 'Stratocaster-alike' Silver Sky model is now official and available for pre-order in four different finishes. Will this be a modern classic?
The David Bowie 'New Killer Star' Supro Dual Tone guitar is being released as a limited edition for 2018 and it looks set to rumble.
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Epiphone has announced two new Slash signature Les Paul models, one of them signed by the man himself. Yes, that will cost you a little more, but it's still cheaper than last year's Gibson version.
Devon-based Mansons Guitar Works has just announced a limited run of the guitars used by Muse's Matt Bellamy and they all look insanely fun to play!
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Mastodon's Bill Kelliher has shared the real reasons behind why he left Gibson USA and moved to ESP - and it's turning into a PR nightmare for the troubled US guitar maker.
If your Kemper is not sounding quite rock or metal enough then Ton(e)hammer have 50 free profiles taken from some of the metallist amplifiers around to melt your face off.
Matt West, guitarist with Pop-Punk outfit Neck Deep, gets a brand new stripped-down, cool-looking signature model guitar that should give plenty of tonal options despite sporting only a single P90!