Gibson Custom Shop recreates Mick Ralphs’ 1958 Les Paul Standard

A recreation of a '58 'burst Les Paul once owned by the legendary Mick Ralphs of Bad Company fame, this brand new aged single-cut looks just the part and recreates a much loved investment

Tetrapad: Multi-Dimensional ​Performance Touch Controller for Eurorack

Get your fingers into your modular with the Intellijel Tetrapad. Four strips of force, position and pressure sensitive material that can be used to send notes, chords, voltage, control, LFO and all sorts.

TC Electronics Tube Pilot – Budget valve overdrive pedal

Yet another budget-friendly pedal from those crazy Danes, but please let us hope that it is not a re-badged Behringer VT911 pedal, as they were shockingly bad.

SoundSpot Velo: get a modern brickwall limiter for 90% off

SoundSpot just released Velo, a modern brickwall limiter made for loudness maximization without the loss of transient information. And it's available at a hefty 90% off introductory discount...

Seymour Duncan Joe Bonamassa Amos Pickup Set – ’58 Flying V tone?

Just when you think Joe Bonamassa surely can't get any more endorsement deals in 2017 the Seymour Duncan Custom Shop proves us all wrong and releases new signature pickups for him

Touch Innovations ditch subscription model for Emulator 2

Emulator 2 customisable touch-screen MIDI controller software is now available at a regular pay-once price after they killed off the "unpopular" subscription model.

Poly Expressive: A creative MIDI floor controller for guitar on Kickstarter

A completely customisable foot controller with almost limitless control possibilities for your guitar rig setup. Will this control surface be a tap dancing success or a floor dwelling disaster?

Erica Synths Acidbox III brings Polivoks VCF to the desktop

The Acidbox III pulls the Erica Synths Black Polivoks filter out of Eurorack and into a desktop form factor. This time it's in stereo, with lowpass and bandpass, LFO, envelope follower and overdrive.

Epiphone recreates 1958 “Amos” Flying V as Limited Edition for Joe Bonamassa

This is the fifth signature guitar model for Joe Bonamassa by Epiphone, based on a rare 1958 Flying V model named 'Amos' - Epiphone say this is a close recreation of the original.

OD Guitars’ Cybele: a new Telecaster(-ish) guitar for high performance styles

When you want an updated version of a classic '50s guitar shape designed for high performance playing styles and offering lots of bespoke options, this guitar should be on your radar.

Gilbert: a DIY synth prototype inspired by MC202, SH101 and SH09

DinSync's Paul Barker has been sharing images and video of a new prototype synthesizer called Gilbert inspired by the classic Roland MC-202, SH-101 and SH-09. It's shaping up nicely.

Varigate 4+: Malekko upgrades their 4 channel 8 step sequencer with CV

The Varigate 4+ brings CV to Malekko's compact sequencing party. 4 channels of gate and/or CV sequencing with added Glide, Scale, Quantizing, Pulse Width, Play/Stop and 16 save locations.

RIP Sonar! Gibson ceases development of all Cakewalk products

Shock news! Gibson has pulled the plug on Sonar and all other Cakewalk products. User support will continue as well as access to online assets but it's all over for Sonar users.

VCV Rack reaches version 0.5 and is ready to take over the world

The development of VCV Rack has been swift and currently 25 third-party developers are poised to release modules for the platform. This could become a new standard of virtual synthesis.

Synthesizer Evolution: a hand illustrated homage to the humble synth

Illustrated by Oli Freke this poster maps out the history of production synthesizers from 1960 to 1995. It's a stunning work that radiates the illustrator's affection for these revolutionary instruments.

Infected Mushroom presents Gatekeeper, a do-it-all gate plug-in with a trippy GUI

Developer Polyverse Music and producer duo Infected Mushroom have teamed up for another plug-in. It's called Gatekeeper, a volume modulator designed to pull off tricks like sequenced volume patterns.

Akai turns its MPC 2.0 software into (almost) a full DAW

Akai has announced the release of MPC 2.0, a long-awaited update that turns its MPC software into a DAW (well, nearly). Will NI Machine users be eating their heart out?

Ecosystem: Semi-modular environment for Max For Live

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.

Eowave Capsule Titan MkII Eurorack synth-voice revealed in Tokyo

The Eowave Capsule Titan desktop semi-modular synthesizer voice gets an upgrade with sub sounds, noise generation, more envelops and VCA's. It can stand alone or be dropped into a larger Eurorack setting.

Sublime Guitars’ new Tomcat Deluxe: Roasted maple necks and offset waists

The US guitar company has just announced yet another well-priced 'globally sourced' guitar, and this time it is a solid-bodied offset with some nice design features.

Bluetooth your iPad into your modular with 8 channels of CV with Mi.1e

Fresh out of the Tokyo Festival of Modular is an 8 channel Bluetooth-to-CV module. The Mi.1e and iPad app offers CV/Gate sequencing, gate sequencing or LFO modulation wirelessly into your Eurorack.

Audiority Echoes T7E plug-in: a vintage Italian disc echo for your DAW

Audiority has a brand new analog simulation plug-in out. It's called Echoes T7E and it recreates a vintage disc echo unit from Italy. The gizmo is based on a magnetic spinning drum with record and playback ...

Rock N Roll Relics Jet: Boutique mojo and cool vintage vibes

If you are looking for a cool vintage American guitar, then this boutique guitar company should be on your radar. Plenty of option permutations to drool over here!

C Quencer DLX oscillator and sequencer from Tokyo Festival of Modular

A multi-functional module featuring two wavetable oscillators and a quantizer based sequencer and rhythm pattern generator with the ability to record all knob movements into the pattern.