Magnetic Effects Electrochop: A reissued Repeater-style tremolo

A limited edition re-release of a hand-built effect for guitar, the reissued Electrochop pedal is also based upon a classic 60s oddity. Can it get close to the unique Vox Repeater sound?

Free loudness meter plug-in by Youlean

Got your eyes on an industry-leading loudness meter plug-in that looks similar to this one? Perhaps Youlean's free plug can save you hundreds of pounds. Perhaps.

Cog Effects’ Rogue One: A Death Star-sized bass fuzz pedal!

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... came a massive, feature packed bass fuzz pedal from the UK that can emulate not one, but two Big Muffs - and has an octaver!

Mad Professor revs up for NAMM with Big Tweedy Drive

Due in early 2017 and inspired by classic American valve amps, the Big Tweedy effect pedal is the result of Mad Professor's latest lab experiments...

Kinetic Treats: free toys from Native Instruments

Kinetic Treats is a fun and joyful free gift from Native Instruments along with £22 to spend in the store.

NYX: Analog Paraphonic Synthesizer from Dreadbox

Dreadbox release another cool tabletop synth full of analog goodness and patchable control. NYX will be available in the New Year.

Korg Kronos LS appears on Japanese website

Seen previously in a leaked image, the Kronos LS has now arrived on the Korg Japan website. Let's see if we can get the gist through Google Translate.

Zoom F-Control remote mixer for F8 and F4 announced

Zoom continue to pioneer the field recorder market by introducing the F-Control mixer and remote for their F8 and F4 recorders, adding new features.

Top 5 MIDI Controller keyboards of 2016

Our fingers need a decent way of injecting music into our DAW. Here's my pick of this year's MIDI Controller Keyboards that stood out for me.

Vermona ’14 Analogsynthesizer becomes a reality

The long awaited Vermona '14 Analogsynthesizer is finally available in a production run of 222. You'll have to be quick to snag this boutique analog mono-synth.

World Suite: UVI captures the planet in a virtual instument

Go travelling in UVI's massive World Suite instrument and delve into the planet's musical culture and heritage.

Flare offer more “revolutionary” ear protection with ISOLATE MiNi

Following their hugely successful ISOLATE campaign, Flare Audio are back with a new line of their ear protectors, the ISOLATE MiNi.

Black Cat OD-Fuzz Deluxe: Two for the price of one!

Based on an OP275 overdrive and Silicon / Germanium transistors for fuzz, this twin dirt box is vintage and fuzzy!

Audified deliver (yet another) new saturation tool, the U78 Saturator

That's right, it's not a spelling mistake: the U78 is one more saturation plug for your toolkits, and isn't Neumann-related in any way.

FLOWs: Algorithmic Loop Sequencer from Tim Exile

Immerse yourself in 5 years of loops from Tim Exile in FLOWs, the algorithmic loop sequencer - and it's completely free

Crazy new keyboard concept from Dodeka

Dodeka thinks music is hard, really very hard So hard they've had to invent their own system of notation and keyboard form factor. Is this nuts? (Spoiler - oh yes I think so).

FM Wave XR7: Draw your own waveforms FM synthesizer

Mystified by the FM Wave XR7 virtual synthesizer. G-Sonique should consider writing a manual or perhaps creating a demo video? Good presets though.

Extract samples and remix loops with Regroover Pro

Regroover Pro extracts drum parts and individual hits from impossible places and lets you remix your drum loops.

Amelia – Jet City’s long-awaited guitar amp – is here at last!

Jet City are at it again, bringing quality tube tones to the huddled masses - and the new Amelia looks promising...

Top 5 Hardware synthesizers of 2016 under £500

Which synthesizers have floated your boat this year? For under £500 I've found my Top 5 source of beeps, sweeps, bubbles and noises - how do they compare to your list?

Look inside a Roland TR-808 – in 3D!

Now you can impress your friends with your in-depth knowledge of the Roland TR-808 drum machine

Empress Effects party on with “10th Anniversary” Tremolo edition

Á rewnowned builder of Tremelo guitar effects, Empress boutique is celebrating its 10th Anniversary by releasing a very limited run of its first pedal design.

Is Spaceship Delay the best free delay plug-in ever?

Spaceship Delay crams a lot of functions and options into one free effect plug-in - and actually sounds good!

Pittsburgh Dynamic Impulse Filter: the new lowpass gate

The Dynamic Impulse Filter is a filter acting as an amplifier replicating the feel and sonic characteristics of classic Buchla percussive lowpass gate