Our pick of the Top 5 Live Gear of 2020 is here! Undoubtedly a bad year for live music, but a great one for innovative new live gear releases!
It's Week 3 of the Gearnews Holiday Raffle: Win a super-premium Sennheiser vocal mic, the MD-435, worth €499! Perfect for your first post-Covid gig!
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Step into the eerily realistic world of synthesized vocals in version 2 of Dreamtonic's Synthesizer V Studio with realtime rendering and a range of Anime styled vocalists to choose from.
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Modular guru DivKid hosts an online edition of the annual Leeds Modular Meets this Sunday 23rd August where there will be performances, new music, gear and teacakes.
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While the Surface Book 3 pulses with premium power the Surface Go 2 can offer some surprisingly music-friendly stability at an affordable price point. Which one would make for an awesome DAW platform?
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This boutique, all-analogue floor-mounted live vocal channel strip can kill feedback, remove noises and propel your SM58 mic sound into U47 territory. And at this eye-watering price, you'd hope so!
2020 is shaping up to be the live music sector's worst nightmare. And 2021 might be just as bad: Live Nation plans to cut artist fees and introduce new punitive clauses. How bad can this get?
Legendary drum machine and instrument designer Roger Linn is running an online workshop on Designing Physical Interactions for Music at Stanford University. And it's open to anybody.
Microsoft is planning to rescue live music by mixing it up on their Mixer live-streaming platform as "RE:Surface" and bringing in audience participation, monetisation and really wild times.
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Phasenetic Labs are calling it Ampethron Portable and it's a hardware synthesizer built into touch screen interface with expandable algorithms and an Xbox controller. This looks like fun!
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Waves Organic ReSynthesis technology takes an incoming vocal and breaks it into amplitude, pitch and formant and then resynthesizes them to create a whole new sound via an 8-voice synthesizer engine.
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Kemper debuts its new Profiler Stage floor pedal unit, aimed at gigging musicians and melding the Remote controller with Profiler Rack. Will Profiler Stage shake up the floorboard FX market?
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Radiator is a laser synthesizer that could zap your live performances into a sci-fi future. It's a visual performance instrument with modulators and generators for producing "music to your eyes".
There's a brand new synth event about to go down. The very first Southwest Synth Fest (SWSF) will be held on June 15 in Austin, Texas. SWSF will feature a gear expo, workshop, talks, and performances.
Dadamachines Composer Pro is a standalone MIDI performance sequencer with a massive 192 button matrix and support for open source audio engines. Here's what it can do.
Expect to see Shepard: a 6-channel performance step-sequencer, Ellis: an 8-output CV controller and Leap: an ADSR and LFO at the forthcoming Superbooth.