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“Before BOSS, there just wasn’t a wide enough selection of pedals. They kicked it into high gear, eclipsed everything else…” How one innovative company changed the soundscape of modern music in five decades

The inside story of how BOSS revolutionized effects. The milestones that led the Japanese firm to the cutting edge of the modern music scene

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Fantastic Twins on creating imaginary characters with vocal effects and the Eventide H3500: "The machine is basically endless, especially when it comes to working with vocals"

Based on her schizoid Fantastic Twins persona, Danny Turner delves deep into Julienne Dessagne’s eerie debut album, Two Is Not a Number

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What’s the biggest selling electronic music gear of 2023, we hear you ask? Reverb has the answer and it might not surprise you…

Teenage Engineering dominates, with the OP-1 topping the overall and used charts once again

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The bad, the good and the ugly: How AudioPilz's meme-fuelled Bad Gear became YouTube's funniest music tech series

Florian Pilz joins us to talk about his rise to YouTube stardom and pick out five of his baddest bits of "bad gear"

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AG Insurance and Ceratizit-WNT snag Women's WorldTour licences for 2024

UCI confirms 15 women's teams for top tier of racing across next two years

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D16 Drumazon 2 review

16 years after the original came out, version 2 is here. But do we really need yet another 909 drum machine emulator?

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It's game on for Roland and its all new Ice White Edition Bridge Cast

It's got gamers in mind, but you can add your own music, too

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4 of the best new drum machines and grooveboxes in 2023

Roland's innovative, sequencer-focused SH-4d takes the crown this year, but who came runner up?

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7 of the best new hardware synths in 2023

In a year dominated by vintage hardware throwbacks and modern innovations, we crown the UDO Super Gemini as 2023's best new synth

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Sweetwater has the gear you need, at the prices you want

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"This might not be such a good idea after all" : A YouTuber tries to recreate classic $200 ReBirth software with $15,000 worth of original vintage Roland hardware

Yes, he really is using using vintage hardware to emulate software that emulated the vintage hardware.

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"To say its arrival was earth-shaking would be no exaggeration": why, 40 years on, the Yamaha DX7 was the most important release in synth history, even though it did "make your head dribble"

And why 'important' doesn't always mean 'best'…

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How to get the perfect 808s: 8 tips to help you achieve weighty 808 kicks

Whether used as a kick or bass, get perfect 808s every time with our essential guide…

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The definitive guide to producing techno in 2023

Sara Simms digs deep into the workings of this essential genre and shows you how to craft club-ready future techno classics

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"It sounds like a drum machine instead of a machine playing drums - a sore disappointment": What critics said about the iconic Roland TR-909 drum machine on its release (and how they actually helped define dance music today)

If they hadn't panned the 909, you might now be dancing to a very different beat…

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“No Synthesizers”? No way! How Queen backtracked on a boast, embraced synths and went stratospheric

The real story of Queen’s much misunderstood love/hate relationship with electronic instruments

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The gear that time forgot: 15 synths, samplers and controllers that could have been classics, but weren't

We take a backwards glance at the groundbreaking music technology products that never quite made it

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Roland’s A-88MKII MIDI Keyboard just got a free MIDI 2.0 update… so what does that actually mean?

The updated MIDI standard’s rollout has been slow, but maybe it’s starting to gather some momentum

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Galaxias puts 50 years of Roland synths into one standalone “super instrument” that enables you to layer, tweak and play them all

Get quick and easy access to more than 20,000 classic sounds

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Could Korg’s MPS-10 drum/percussion pad and sampler be a serious rival to Roland’s SPD-SX Pro?

The WaveDrum maker brings us another rhythmic offering

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808s, MPCs and Auto-Tune: The story of hip-hop production in 10 iconic bits of gear

Hip-hop's evolution is intertwined at every turn with the development of music technology. As the genre turns 50, we chart its five-decade history through ten influential pieces of music-making kit

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Roland’s Fantom EX upgrade brings new pianos and classic synth emulations to the flagship workstation range, but it doesn’t come for free

Jupiter-8, SH-101 and JD-800 emulations included in $199 expansion

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How to make better beats: the ultimate guide to drum programming, mixing and sound design in 2023

We’re going big on beats, tackling both programming and mixing drums, with tips for crafting better acoustic and electronic sounds (and all without a human drummer in sight)

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Octo Octa: "I use the Volca Keys constantly in my productions - it’s probably one of my favourite synths of all time"

DJ/producer Maya Bouldry-Morrison has been lauded for her modern yet classic approach to house. We sat down with Octo Octa to talk studio secrets, DJ philosophy and the state of house music in 2023

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Cinthie: "My studio is pretty much a Roland museum. All these old machines are all still very relevant"

As a DJ, producer, label boss and owner of the Elevate record store, Cinthie is a cornerstone of Berlin’s contemporary house scene

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