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The best new pianos and home and classic keyboards to look forward to in 2024

GEAR EXPO 2024: Get ready to audition some of the 'key' releases of the year

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“No previous experience required”: Roland puts its ZEN-Core synth engine into the beginner-friendly GO:KEYS 3 and 5 “music creation” keyboards

High-quality soundsets meet auto-accompaniment features

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“I never looked at it as a single 'til everybody started saying it was great”: The Wham! song that George Michael called his favourite and he made on his own with a Roland Juno-60 and a LinnDrum

Before he recorded Last Christmas, he came up with this

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SampleRadar: 493 hardware drum machine samples

Today's edition of SampleRadar features looped beats and one-shots from a variety of beat-boxes, including the Alesis H16-B, Arturia DrumBrute, Nord Drum and Roland TR-8

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“We believe music is central to humanity”: Roland and Universal Music Group announce their 7 Principles for Music Creation with AI as they confirm new strategic partnership

Two industry giants announce strategic partnership as that argue that “human-created works must be respected and protected”

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6 of the most ridiculously large synth workstation plugins that can handle every part of a track: "This powerhouse of a synth has all of the sounds you need"

These beastly ROMplers provide all the music-making power one could ask for

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“A budget-friendly instrument with core RD features”: Roland launches the RD-08 stage piano, the most affordable RD model yet

A compact stage piano that comes with built-in speakers, SuperNATURAL and ZEN-Core sound engines, and Roland Cloud expansion support

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Roadmap 2024: Roland

Kohei Hattori, General Manager, Live Production Business Department at Roland, shares exclusive insight into the company's 2024 roadmap.

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The beginner keyboard checklist: all the essentials you need to start playing today

Our pick of the must-have accessories that will bring music to the ears of every beginner keyboard player

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Are software synths now better than hardware - and does it matter?

Grab your favourite softsynths and let us take you on a journey into their evolution. Learn how to get more out of them and see how they stack up next to the pioneers that inspired them

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Roland’s new premium digital pianos look like uprights, but are designed to sound and play like acoustic grands

LX-9, LX-6 and LX-5 use a range of technologies to make them feel mighty real

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"A kit with some surprising tricks up its sleeve": Donner Backbeat review

A feature-packed mid-range electronic drum set, but are the light up pads a pointless gimmick?

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"As a proof-of-concept, it’s hard to fault, even if we’d need to sell some organs to buy one": DWe review

Forget your drum module - DW’s jumping head-first towards the deep end of computer-based drum sounds, and its acoustic-electronic hardware is our life raft of familiarity. Let’s hope it’s not a washout…

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‘Synth map of the world’ reveals that Roland and Behringer dominate other brands when it comes to Google searches

Roland is number one in 73 countries, while Behringer leads the way in 33

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The producer's guide to the Roland TB-303 (and its clones)

TB-303 Day special: Iconic and influential, but notoriously awkward to program. Let’s explore the ins and outs of coaxing acid lines from a 303 – whether real, cloned or emulated

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"Fine for off-the-cuff sequencer basslines, otherwise you have to plan what you're going to do before even switching it on": Here's what the reviews said when the dance-music-defining Roland TB-303 was released in 1981

Happy TB-303 Day! Grab your time travel machine, because back then it only cost a couple of hundred bucks

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Speedy J on the 30th anniversary of ambient techno classic Ginger: "My approach was to take more time for tracks to develop - be less focused on the impact of the drums, and give everything a bit more space"

Recently celebrating its 30th birthday, Speedy J tells us about the making of his 1993 Warp Records debut

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10 of the best Roland TB-303 tracks of all time: Fatboy Slim, Voodoo Ray, Aphex Twin and more

Celebrate TB-303 Day with these squelchy bassline classics

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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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"I heard Portishead’s Dummy on the radio and thought to myself: ‘I can make that'": Air's Moon Safari is 25 years old, but still sounds like it will be made in 25 years' time. Here's the story of the greatest chillout album ever

And why you should see them play the whole album live this year…

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Daniel Avery on Drone Logic: “I was taking synthesizers and drum machines and putting them through these effect pedals - it was techno with a shoegaze aesthetic”

Avery talks us through the making of his recently-reissued 2013 experimental electronica debut Drone Logic

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10 mistakes every beginner keyboard player makes

There are many pitfalls waiting to stymie the beginner keyboard player, from choosing ill-suited gear to practicing the wrong pieces. We’ve made the worst blunders so you don’t have to – here’s our guide to the mistakes every novice should avoid

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TAL's latest plugin emulates the '80s synth behind the classic rave hoover sound, Roland's Alpha Juno 2

TAL-Pha expands the original synth's capabilities with contemporary features and a more user-friendly interface

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The producer's guide to the Roland RE-201 Space Echo: "It can cover everything from simple saturation to wild, out-of-control and bizarre self-oscillation"

Here's how to master one of music's most beloved effects boxes, used by dub producers and experimental electronic composers alike since the early ’70s

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How Laurie Anderson made the experimental classic O Superman: "The lyrics are a one-sided conversation, like a prayer to God. I wanted it to be like a Greek chorus – not just one voice – so I used a vocoder"

As the unlikely 1981 hit goes viral on TikTok, we tell the story of Laurie Anderson's strangely compelling masterpiece

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