When does the 'Brown Sound' get too, well, brown? Guitar tone chaser Joan Segeborn has taken an old Marshall head and cabs and run them through a Variac, taking us brown sound tone adventure.
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Forget your iWatch and your phone apps, strap a useful tool to your wrist. The Soundbrenner Core has a pulsing metronome, a magnetic tuner, decibel meter, multi-sync, DAW sync and even tells the time.
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Modular Moon wants to open a Modular Synthesis School in Amsterdam to teach synthesis, sound and DIY modular to new generations of modular fiddlers. Is Kickstarter the best way to raise funds?
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A conundrum of a modular synthesizer waiting to be puzzled over. The Melody Puzzle experimentally patches together all sorts of combinations in the hope of finding the solution to your musical yearnings.
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With the Axoloti core and Patcher software, Noistation can use many forms of synthesis and generate all sorts of sounds while being a fabulous looking piece of future-retro space furniture.
An extraordinary historical archive of environmental sounds and sound effects. From every day sounds like "Department store atmosphere" to "Geiger counters" and "Austin Maestro dashboard audible warnings".
Wusik Station is a popular all-in-one audio workstation and effects processor. Version 9 of the software is out now, with ample updates across the board, a new single-file installer, and new readymade sounds.
DW Drum Enhancer is designed to effectively streamline and simplify the typical drum processing chain by automatically applying appropriate settings for its in-built EQ, compression, and gate modules...
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Take this blind test and see if you can hear the difference between a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier and a Line 6 Helix LT.
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Ecosystem contains an organic, interconnected array of oscillating waveshapes, modulatable effects and automatable controllers. Patch it together into an evolving environment of sounds and discovery.
With Ableton Live 10 absorbing Max for Live Cycling '74 are using that development and testing time to evolve the full version of their music application builder and bring us Max 8.
First announced at NAMM early this year, the JBL 7 Series comprises four models covering most common music, post, and broadcast production scenarios. They are finally available for sale now...
Sheffield hosted the second UK SynthFest on the 7th October presented by Sound On Sound magazine. I walked the floor, played with all manner of synths and noise machines and met the people who made them.
A cross between a disco lamp and an all-in-one audio workstation, the Zoom ARQ AR-48 Aero RhythmTrak is a production and live performance instrument that looks like something from a toy store...
Celebrating 22 years on the market, MAGIX is releasing customizable Music Maker Editions designed to let users assemble their own Music Maker package with their preferred instruments and features.
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Has General MIDI really been the thing missing from my modular setup? With General CV you can now have Orch Hits, Voice Oh's, Alto Sax and Ocarina patched, CV controlled and modulated.
