Review: Overloud Gem Voice – great vocal sounds without the complexity?

So you want comprehensive digital tools to get the best out of your vocals? Overloud Gem Voice can get you some great sounds, but keeps the learning curve nice and flat. Check out our full review.

Has COVID-19 saved the electric guitar?

As lockdown hit, the future of the guitar industry looked bleak. But now it appears that manufacturers are struggling to meet demand. Has Covid turned around the fate of the electric guitar?

Behringer gives us an update on the RD-9 drum machine

Behringer says they are trying to fix the RD-8 MIDI sync which impacts the RD-9 firmware and so once one is ready the other will ship because "we simply don't compromise on quality".

Concrete Guitar – Yes, a guitar made of concrete!

This Strat-style guitar has a body made from concrete, using a silicon mould and a basic guitar building kit. Can you guess how much it weighs?

Best Sample Packs This Week: Organic atmospheres, a unique music box, disco funk sounds

More great sample packs this week: a collection of nature and atmospheric sounds, a melodic drum that is simple to dial in, a surprising music box and a complete set of disco funk samples.

SynthBooth: Virtual Modular Expo with makers, movers, talkers and performers

SynthBooth is a new online event for the modular synth community from the 16th - 18th Oct featuring manufacturers, panel discussions, seminars, live performance and a keynote from Suzanne Ciani.

Solar Guitars adds two new signature models – the GC1.6 Killertone and E1.6 Priestess

Martyred's Jason Frankhouser and Exhorder's Marzi Montazeri are the latest to get their own Signature Artist models from Solar Guitars. Both models are well spec'd and make a bold statement.

Catalinbread Epoch Boost: A modern take on an old tone secret

The new Catalinbread Epoch Boost recreates the fabled preamp of the Maestro Echoplex EP-3 in a smaller enclosure, with a few modern enhancements to bring it up to date.

Fender Japan announces limited edition Black Paisley Stratocaster, with a chunky neck

This limited edition run of the Fender Black Paisley Stratocaster is exclusive to the Japanese market, but the specifications are so good you may well want to hunt one down.

Electro-Harmonix Pitch Fork + Polyphonic Pitch Shift: More details emerge

Is the new Electro-Harmonix Pitch Fork + Polyphonic Pitch Shift pedal imminent? Leaked in January, it's now appearing on dealer sites in the US. Here's what we know so far.

DirtyWave M8: Handheld synth and tracker project is looking stunning

The M8 is an open-source sequencer/tracker and synthesizer project by musician Timothy Lamb (AKA Trash80) is based on Mutable Instruments Braids and is shaping up beautifully as it nears release. 

Bragi Modular Frigg: Parametric EQ kicks off new viking inspired modular range

Odin’s wife, Frigg, was a paragon of beauty, love, fertility and fate and is apparently capable of +- 12 dB of gain in low and high bands of EQ. Bragi Modular release their first module.

Ritual Electronics Pointeuse: Trigger, Gate, Mute and Switch with your feet in a 1U module

Ritual Electronics unveils their first 1U module in a series of modules we saw prototypes of over Superbooth. Pointeuse will trigger, gate, mute and switch from a footswitch.

Kurzweil innovates with 76-key versions of PC4 performance controller and SP6 piano

Just when you thought Kurzweil was running out of ideas someone suggested removing an octave and we have the entirely new and almost the same PC4-7 and SP6-7. 

United Plugins Transmutator lets you get creative with crossfades

Crossfades are boring? Not anymore! United Plugins and JMG Sound have released Transmutator, a crossfading plug-in that lets you get creative with 16 different fade modes.

Behringer’s RD-6, a TR-606 clone, available now in a kaleidoscope of colours

Behringer revealed their RD-6 analog drum machine at NAMM with 8 sounds, individual outputs, 64 steps of sequencing and a big fat distortion. Pre-orders have just opened.

Newfangled Audio Generate: Chaos unleashed in Buchla inspired animated synthesizer

You tried a bit of free chaos with Pendulate but now embrace the animated unpredictability of 5 types of chaotic oscillator in the fully fleshed out Generate by Newfangled Audio and Eventide.

Endorphin.es Queen of Pentacles complex hybrid drum module rocks 909 day

Make way for the Queen of Pentacles a massive 7 voice drum module combining analogue and digital sound sources with Endorphin's inspired filtering and effects processing.

Waves Kaleidoscopes: a multi-faceted suite of modulation effects

Waves Kaleidoscopes takes the classic modulation effects phaser, flanger, chorus and tremolo and lets you combine them in a variety of ways. It's a colorful swirl of dynamic modulation.

Review: Is the Arturia KeyStep 37 the perfect MIDI and Modular controller?

More keys and arpeggios, a display, polyphonic sequencing, an expanded Chord mode, MIDI controls and loads of tweaks: the KeyStep 37 packs a punch for modular and MIDI control. Here's our review!

Overloud Voice: An all-in-one vocal mixing chain for your DAW

Overloud debuts Voice, an all-in-one vocal mixing chain plug-in with a wide range of preamps, EQs, compressors and other essentials - all the tools you need for a perfect vocal sound.

Is Fender’s Billie Eilish Signature Ukulele presaging a signature Telecaster?

Fender jas just launched the Billie Eilish SIgnature Ukulele! But speculation is already rife that we could be seeing a signature Telecaster soon, too...

Arturia KeyStep 37: More notes, more lights, chords and arpeggiator patterns

Arturia has upgraded their KeyStep sequencer and controller to 37 keys and added a whole new Chord mode, new Arpeggiator patterns, display, MIDI controls and lights above the notes.

Welcome back the Rocksonics MB-3X mastering compressor – as a plug-in!

Made in the mid 90's, the Rocksonics MB-3X is an analog mastering-grade compressor/limiter designed for musical compression - will this new plug-in recreate the magic?