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Best pianos for beginners to get playing in 2023

Always wanted to tinkle the ivories? Here’s how to get started

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K-Klass: "I used the redundancy payout to buy a Roland TR-505 and my dad kicked me out the house! He only apologised when we had a record in the charts..."

Paul Roberts and Russ Morgan join us to pull a rewind on one of UK dance music's most influential LPs, Universal

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D16 Lush 2 review

One of the most hotly-anticipated softsynths of a decade ago gets an update. But after ten years, is D16’s Lush 2 still relevant in 2023? Oh yes

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Yamaha NP-15 keyboard

Launched as the successor to the Piaggero NP-12, does the new NP-15 out-stage the much-loved beginner favourite?

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The iconic Roland TR-808 tracks that made a legend

Key cuts from seminal artists, including Kraftwerk, Marvin Gaye, Aphex Twin, New Order, Afrika Bambaataa and more

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It's 808 day! Celebrate with a free Roland online studio, tips, techniques, movies, music, emulations and more

The greatest drum machine of all time takes center stage on August 8 ever year - geddit?

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Best digital pianos for 2023: Top electric models tried and tested

Digital pianos to inspire your digits

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ZEN-Core goes hardcore: five classic synths for your DAW or Roland hardware

Zenology Pro packages five classic Roland synths together for the first time to use on ZEN-Core hardware and software

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Watch the synth sounds from some of The Prodigy’s biggest hits being recreated using the original hardware

Alex Ball takes a deep dive into seven of Liam Howlett’s classic ‘90s tones

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The producer's guide to the Roland SH-4d

Leo Maymind digs into a part-melodic, part-rhythmic desktop synth that defies categorisation

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Boss is back in the synth business – and its new GM-800 could be the best way to get keyboard sounds from your guitar yet

A new Series GK digital interface and an advanced operating engine lifted from Roland's collection of keyboards head up the powerful stompbox

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Boss reveals its first new guitar synth pedal system in over a decade: the GM-800 and GK Series

The next-generation guitar and bass synthesizer from the pioneers with the advanced Roland ZEN-Core sound engine and newly developed Serial GK converters

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Roland VMH-D1 headphones

Roland and V-Moda team up to deliver headphones designed specifically for e-drumming

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Roland Bridge Cast owners can now access hundreds of AI-powered royalty-free tracks to use as livestream background music

Dual Bus Gaming Mixer also gets a library of new sound effects

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Pearl & The Oysters: "We fell into the vintage analogue synth rabbit hole in our teens and have been obsessed ever since"

Pearl & The Oysters' breezy sound channels ‘70s Brazilian pop, Haruomi Hosono and Stereolab into music laced with vintage gear, obscure instruments and sonic surprises

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Show Us Your Studio #5: "There's an immediacy with synths and guitars you just don't get with the PC"

Disabled composer Paul Jelfs talks us through his accessible studio set-up and highlights the challenges faced by music-makers with disabilities

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Nathan Fake: "I’d love to get a Yamaha Z1. I’ve got a thing for these obsolete ’90s digital synths that seem a bit unwieldy"

As he celebrates 20 years of music-making with new album Crystal Vision, Nathan reveals that ‘doing your own thing’ is the secret to longevity

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“I was the first idiot to get one. I'd lie awake at night dreaming up shit for it to do”: Trevor Horn’s rig that made the ‘80s

We’re all familiar with Trevor Horn’s productions and their preference for expensive, elusive kit, but what got the ball rolling?

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Show Us Your Studio #3: "You never know exactly how the Moog is going to sound until you start fiddling around with the patch cables"

It's time for the third edition of our weekly peek into our readers' home studios

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Isla Instruments S2400 review

The boutique box that harkens back to the golden age of samplers has gained many fans. We check it out

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Amadeus Code’s new AI API can generate royalty-free music based on non-musical text prompts, and Roland has signed up to use it

Type in words like ‘summer’, ‘travel’ or ‘cosmetics’ and you’ll get the appropriate soundtrack, apparently

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Roland's digital Pianos are in a class of their own for sound quality, ease of use and fun

The FP digital pianos are boosted with exceptional feel, sounds and features to fuel your playing passion

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Synth wars: The story of MIDI, the one interface that ruled them all

CV/Gate, DCB, USI, UMI and The Oberheim System… This is the story of how synth’s biggest players narrowly averted a standards war and made sweet music together

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Roland's new E-X10 arranger keyboard looks like a fun and portable starter instrument

The recently announced E-X50's little brother packs over 500 sounds into a lightweight and battery-powered package

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Korg LP-380U digital piano review

Could Korg’s budget home piano be one of your new favourite LP’s?

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