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Roland and Serato come together to celebrate 303 day with a double control vinyl set that also honours the TR-606 drum machine

“If it wasn’t for the 303, I wouldn’t even be here right now talking to you,” says producer Fast Eddie

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SampleRadar TB-303 Day special: 252 free 303-style acid samples

Celebrate 303 Day with a killer Roland TB-303 sample pack - absolutely free

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"It sounded completely out of place in the chart it was in, and the year it was released": 5 Prophet-5-powered tracks by Radiohead, Gary Numan, Japan and more

We're in Prophet-5 mode, as we celebrate five decades of the first 'proper' polysynth with five – ok six – glorious tracks

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"If you absolutely hated Stairway to Heaven, nobody can blame you for that because it was so… pompous": The glory and burden of Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven, over half a century on

In early 1970 Jimmy Page had a concept for an epic song that “would unravel in layers as it progressed”. More than five decades on, Stairway To Heaven still has a hold on its writers and the world

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“The most fantastic-sounding Moog package, which can provide a ton of synth bass detail”: Moog Mariana review

Looking for absorbent synth bass sounds? Moog’s new software synth bass plumbs new trench-like depths

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How to write melodies like Avicii: "A lot can be learned by studying Avicii’s melodies and using his composition ideas in your own tracks"

We pay tribute to the modern dance pioneer who, in his short time, set a standard for songwriting in the genre

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“People that get this guitar, it’s really going to make an impact on them because it doesn’t only look awesome, it sounds amazing”: Gretsch’s Chris Rocha signature Broadkaster Jr is a ltd edition stunner

This Electromatic series semi-hollow has a maple body with a chambered spruce centre block, a pair of Dual High Sensitive Filter’Tron pickups, and looks like it's made of ice cream and gold

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“Musical comedy is a weird one, isn’t it?”: Taskmaster’s Alex Horne on global fame, Ferraris and trying to write funny songs with “GarageBand and a really crap microphone”

“If I would ever think of calling myself a musician, it would be a pretty rubbish one,” says the leader of The Horne Section

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“The riffs are tougher, and there are hooks! Yes, hooks!”: Black Country Communion announce new album and Joe Bonamassa’s guitar is pure fire on the supergroup’s new single, Stay Free

The supergroup featuring Joe Bonamassa, Glenn Hughes, Jason Bonham and Derek Sherinian release first new music in seven years, and it's a heavy rock groover to trample you underfoot

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“They’re not my strings, not my pickups, not my anything, but I just thought, ‘Well, it’s eight o’clock, just make a show!’”: Julian Lage says using rented Telecasters to perform live freed him from gear anxiety

Drummers do it, engineers do it, so why not guitarists? Lage says backlining Telecasters for a string of dates with John Zorn was a challenging but ultimately liberating experience

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Canblaster: "The idea is to go back and forth – to have the computer sequencing the synthesizers and then the synthesizers being destroyed by plugins - creating a weird conversation between them all"

We spoke to the man behind the Can, Cédric Steffens, to learn about his evolution from arcade dance game enthusiast to one-fourth of the acclaimed Club Cheval, and his collaboration with BLEASS on its Arpeggiator plugin

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This nuts AI-powered effects plugin uses neural synthesis to let you "play another artist's brain like an instrument"

DataMind Audio's Combobulator resynthesizes incoming audio through neural networks to recreate the style of other artists with your own sounds

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A jazz guitar classic returns as Harmony unveils the H62 Reissue – a handsome archtop hollowbody “delivering deliciously warm tones that snap”

Described as a “dark horse of blues and jazz”, the H62 Reissue is a spruce-topped, figured-maple-bottomed hollowbody with stunning 1950s aesthetics, and it retails at just $849

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“He comes in with this absolute reckless spirit and just takes it to the edge”: St Vincent’s new single, Broken Man, features “three drummers”, and one of them is Dave Grohl

On self-producing her new album, Annie Clark says: “I needed to understand sound - scientifically and also as intention”

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The producer's guide to the Teletronix LA-2A: "It's one of the few pieces of vintage gear that can have grown producers weeping into their mixes, such is its ‘magic dust’ reputation"

Our in-depth guide to the classic compressor revered by gearheads and beloved for its warmth, colour and transparent sound

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Free Native Instruments plugin lets you conduct a choir of 1,000s of Jacob Collier fans "polyphonically across many different chords, keys and soundworlds"

"What if you could sit in the comfort of your own home and experience the feeling of an audience choir at your fingertips?"

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"Musicians like to test their gear in the shops – online retail will never catch on": Thomann celebrates 70 years and proves the naysayers wrong with 100,000 products and well over a billion dollars in sales a year

"The fact that we are doing so well also has to do with the fact that we employ a lot of musicians," says CEO Hans Thomann Junior

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Music theory basics: Master modulation, or how to use key changes in your songwriting (without resorting to cliché)

If the only modulation you’re familiar with is in your soft synths, read on…

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“It would’ve taken me no time to come up with these two things”: Here’s what happened when a pro film composer tried to use ChatGPT to create an original movie theme

Does it know enough music theory to create a compelling melody and complementary harmony?

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Get more sounds from your guitar and amp without spending any money

There's huge potential at your fingertips and these different steps show you how to unlock it

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"It does everything I need it to do – and more": Ed Sheeran reveals two signature 'stadium grade' looper pedals with Headrush… and at very different prices

The Sheeran Looper + and X follow the songwriter's years of experience exploring the potential of live loops – and multi-effects pedals

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Is this Photoshop Firefly for audio? Adobe is working on an AI-powered music generator that can be used to "shape, tweak, and edit" your sounds

The "early-stage generative AI music generation and editing tool" Project Music GenAI Control promises to give producers and sound designers "pixel-level control for music"

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Sidechaining, explained: "Even if you’ve not used it directly in your music-making, you’ll probably have come across it both in the studio and in your daily life"

Get to grips with the infamous, endlessly useful and often misunderstood world of sidechaining

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Composer Petri Alanko on scoring Alan Wake 2, building his own instruments and his 2000-strong plugin collection: "You start following a tiny lead and it can bring you into this marvellous, different world"

Petri Alanko built a score for Alan Wake 2 that harnessed an arsenal of plugins with DIY instruments and a huge array of hardware and software synths. We spoke to Petri about his idiosyncratic approach

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Moby plays drums, bass, guitar and keys as he re-records the 2002 single you might know best from a famous action movie series

A classic song is Bourne again in a new production breakdown video

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