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The beginners guide to virtual instruments: What are 'VIs', 'plugins' and 'VSTs' anyway? And how can you make the best use of them in your music?

Because there's never been a better, easier, more affordable time to make great music on your computer

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“The idea that singing with deliberate Auto-Tune makes you a fraud or that not having a traditional band means you must not be a ‘real artist’ is like, the most boring take ever”: Charli XCX addresses "boomer vibe" criticism of her Glastonbury performance

“The best art is divisive and confrontational," she believes

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“They are the three classics that I love to listen to, and they all remind me of certain times in my life”: McCartney names his all time top three albums

And, of course, Pet Sounds is in there

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The ultimate soft synth showdown: Serum 2, Pigments 6, Phase Plant, Vital and Massive X: But which is best?

We pit five of today's most powerful, flexible and versatile synth plugins against each other to find out who comes out on top in 2025

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Roland at Plugin Week 2025: TR-707/TR-727 - Buy one, get one free!

For a limited time, purchase the TR-707 Software Rhythm Composer for $149(USD) and get the TR-727 for FREE. That's a $300 (USD) value for 50% off. Act fast - this special offer ends July 31, 2025

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Eventide at Plugin Week 2025: Eventide H3000 Factory MK II Brings the Legendary H3000 Harmonizer® to Your DAW

A piece of music history, reimagined for the digital age and ready to shape the next generation of legendary recordings

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Expressive E at Plugin Week 2025: Discover Soliste — A next-gen MPE string plugin suite for real-time expression

A fresh and transformative approach to bowed strings

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Sonible at Plugin Week 2025: Rewriting the reverb rulebook with the intuitive, AI-powered smart:reverb 2

Get to work with the content aware reverb that communicates across multiple instances for maximum clarity and cohesion

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EastWest Sounds at Plugin Week 2025: Introducing LO-FI & Ancient Kingdom PLUS get ComposerCloud+ for its lowest price ever

With two major new releases and ComposerCloud+ for just $9.99, EastWest have got something new for sound designers and composers everywhere

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Dreamtonics at Plugin Week 2025: Add vocals to your songs with Synthesizer V Studio 2 Pro – No singing required

Feed it a melody and some lyrics, choose a voice and have your song sung back to you with production-ready vocals. It's as close as it gets to working with a real singer

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Antares at Plugin Week 2025: AutoTune's AI-Powered vocal chain delivers pro results without the guesswork

Six essential tools put intelligent vocal processing at your fingertips

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u-he at Plugin Week 2025: u-he's MFM2 More Feedback Machine is a sound designer's dream with four independent delay lines, multimode filters, a flexible mod matrix and more

Plus how Hive 2.1 makes it even easier to create striking dynamic, evolving sounds

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IK Multimedia at Plugin Week 2025: Total Studio 5 MAX v2 is an all-in-one production toolbox that offers unbeatable value and convenience

The bundle puts 146 software titles, 72 plugins, 2,000+ effects and a collection of over 11,600+ instruments at your fingertips - at a fraction of the cost of buying them separately

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“It was the height of our popularity. And of course, when you’ve peaked there’s nowhere to go but down”: How the ‘Worst Band In The World’ had their revenge with the noisiest No.1 album of all time

The band's motto: Everything Louder Than Everything Else

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“We're talking about measurable increases in dopamine, reduced anxiety, and better emotional resilience”: Why making music is actually good for you

AI is pushing us to cut corners, but the evidence is very clear: playing and making music is a powerfully healthy activity, one that humans evolved to do

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“Mick came in with a song, but it was very Dylan-esque. It was like a ballad. ‘No, no. Let’s rethink. What if we push the beat up a bit?’”: How The Rolling Stones created their Satanic, samba-fuelled masterpiece Sympathy For The Devil

The Stones were hitting a whole new creative peak

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"I like childlike exploration. Maybe it's a bit of ego, but it feels good to discover things": Tresor resident Nadia Struiwigh on why she avoids tutorials and keeps things 'loose' in the studio

"Every piece of gear has a character... it's like in a TV show, you have the main character, then you have other people that come in and out"

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"I woke up the next day and I was like, ‘Oh, it’s over. I know it’s over'": Lorde used MDMA therapy to cure her stage fright

She spills the beans to Stephen Colbert

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“Neil Young’s career has been conducted on his own terms”: BBC confirm that they won’t be showing his Glastonbury set “at the artist’s request”

And it’s not the first time Young and the broadcaster have clashed

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“I pretty much haven't worked since 2020”: How the effects of Long COVID have harmed professional musicians and DJs

Though the 2020 COVID pandemic had many negative effects on the music industry, an underreported aspect is how Long COVID has left some professional musicians unable to continue with their careers

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"In a blind test of 100 musicians, it beat the $200 plugin 3-to-1. Not bad for a free app": AudioKit releases Synth One J6, a free Juno-inspired synth for iOS

"No ads. No subscriptions. No hidden fees. Just an exceptional instrument, freely given to inspire creativity everywhere"

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"He thought of all the sounds we chose as my voices - these machines are singing and crying and talking or laughing in the same way that we do”: Lorde on the Frank Ocean collaborator who helped to humanise the synth sounds on her new album, Virgin

The star performed a secret set to open this weekend's Glastonbury Festival

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"There's not a shred of evidence on the internet that this band has ever existed": This apparently AI-generated artist is racking up hundreds of thousands of Spotify streams

The Velvet Sundown has no online footprint, a suspiciously artificial artist image and a ChatGPT-generated biography - but somehow has almost 350,000 monthly listeners

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“The energy on that train was unreal”: Sam Ryder performs an impromptu set for passengers on a Glastonbury-bound train

It was part of the I Came By Train campaign

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Glastonbury 2025 secret act rumours: odds shorten on Lewis Capaldi and Robbie Williams enters the fray

Plus Chappell Roan and Haim could still be possibilities

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