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Learn guitar for the price of a coffee - Fender Play is only $3.13 per month with this colossal 75% discount
This best-ever 75% off promotion from Fender Play ends on 11 December, so you’ll need to act fast!
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Best Christmas gifts for drummers 2023: 47 brilliant festive ideas to treat the drummer in your life
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The launch of Suzuki’s new Omnichord has been "postponed", but the good news is that it will be at the 2024 Winter NAMM Show
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Thank you for the Glaze: Native Instruments' holiday giveaway is a $49 Play Series instrument packed with free vocal samples for pop, hip-hop and R&B
High-gloss vocal licks and lines at your fingertips
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Sonic Charge Synplant 2 review
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An esoteric classic gets an AI-powered update. We plant a seed to see what grows…
Playground Sessions review
No name-calling, hair-pulling or lunch money-stealing going on here - just a generous dose of interactive piano tuition
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- £108
- €129
- $111
The classic rhythmic effect machine returns with a long-awaited follow-up. We enter the matrix
Erica Synths Black Stereo Reverb review
- £280
- €328
- $289
We get to know this latest Black range release, whose USP is simplicity
Teenage Engineering TP-7 review
- £1299
- €1499
- $1333
TE’s ever-growing Field Kit now adds a tactile recorder, but can it stand the rigours of the road?
Expressive E Osmose review
- £1699
- €1968
- $1777
Is the long-awaited MPE synth from Haken Audio and Expressive E your studio’s future centrepiece?
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An integrated Eurorack system with the benefits of a Minimoog, and more? We say ‘yes, please’ to the MiniMod Keyz
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AIAIAI says Unit-4 is the first true wireless monitor system designed for the recording studio and mobile mixing. And that claim might well be justified...
