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Fender California Traditional acoustic series

Fender adds new models to its California Traditional acoustic series

12 Aug in Guitar

Fender has added nine new acoustic models to its California Traditional series. These new guitars feature slim necks, and that distinctive 6-in-line headstock.

Squarp Instruments Rample: Eurorack sample player leaks

22 Feb in Synths

A few details of the Squarp Instruments Rample appeared briefly on their website. They originally teased us with it in December but it could be fully revealed very soon - here's what we know.

Fender Blonde Player Tele with Custom Shop ’51 Nocaster pickups

14 Feb in Guitar

This limited-edition Mexican made Fender Butterscotch Blonde Player Tele comes with a set of Custom Shop '51 Nocaster pickups - expect some vintage Telecaster tones at a decent price.

Teenage Engineering Ortho Remote for wireless volume dialling and MIDI control

15 Jan in Studio

Bored of NAMM already? Why not spend time spinning the Ortho Remote on the Teenage Engineering website. It will remix music and trigger stunning FX while advertising their new wireless dial thingy.

NAMM 2019: Native Instruments give away Komplete Start for free

24 Jan 2019 in Synths

A brand new bumper bonus bundle of synths, effects, instruments and loops are yours for free with the Komplete Start collection with Kontakt 6 and Reaktor 6 players.

Gothic Instruments DRONAR Master Edition

DRONAR Master Edition gives you 50GB of Gothic Instruments cinematic spookiness

21 Aug 2018 in Synths

Gothic Instruments have bundled together 8 of their most atmospheric DRONAR instruments into a singular, improved and yet familiar interface so you can go to town on creating the most awesome of sonic ...

Spotify is building hardware, likely an in-car streaming player

09 Apr 2018 in Studio

As Spotify is gearing up for an April 24 event, informed speculation arises that the music streaming giant is about to launch its first hardware device, reportedly an in-car controller or player.

W/ – take the nowness and connect to a future temporal arrangement

16 Mar 2018 in Synths

The W/ (pronounced "With") module from Whimsical Raps will take you on an 8-hour journey of sampling to discover how future nows and past nows collide, splice, rip and leap through temporal space, or something.

NAMM 2018: Panoptigon player for Optigan/Orchestron discs

23 Jan 2018 in Synths

Born in the 1970's from games manufacturer Mattel the Optigan and Orchestron were the futuristic Mellotrons of their day, pulling audio off celluloid discs. Someone has built a new player for the discs.

Gleetchlab 4: modular DAW of audio processing and mad manipulation

13 Nov 2017 in Studio

Gleetchlab 4 is for messing around with the nature of sound via 6 loopers and a load of processors to filter, stretch, delay, degrade, Gristleize, percolate, resonate and modulate.