Superbooth 2019: The best synths, modular gear and weird bits
Our award picks from this year’s event
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Our award picks from this year’s event
Blast from the past: Ensoniq EPS
The Ensoniq Performance Sampler - or EPS - would open up whole new horizons for sampling
Want to win Acoustic Guitarist of the Year 2019? Last year’s winner reveals his biggest tips
2018 Acoustic Guitarist of the Year Alexandr Misko shares his experiences of entering, and winning, the global acoustic guitar talent competition
Make your music sound like a scratchy old record with the Vinylizer plugin
Fire up the DAW turntable and play some noises
Ernie Ball Music Man debuts Hunter Hayes Cutlass signature guitar
Country multi-instrumentalist specs piezo-equipped electric
Shergold turns Provocateur with new single-cut guitar design
Patrick James Eggle unveils well-spec’d new electric
Elton John and Taron Egerton perform Rocket Man together as movie premieres
Critics praise new musical biopic
Ernst Nathorst-Böös replaced as Propellerhead CEO: what now for the Reason developer?
Niklas Agevik will take over on 10 June
THE FAST GUIDE TO RECORDING – Computer Music issue 270 is out now!
Complete studio course, free VST/AU/AAX chorus effect, Jon Hopkins interview, DnB video session with Heist and more
Superbooth 2019 video: The Landscape HC-TT will breathe new life into your old cassette tapes
If you didn't throw them out, that is
Latest Tuition
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How to emulate old-school sampler sonics in a modern DAW
Get the sounds and production styling of vintage hardware samplers in software
Pedal gain stacking: everything you need to know
Take your overdrive and distortion tones into new territory
How to tease a melody for maximum musical impact
Teasing in a melody line by using fragments of it before unleashing the full tune can prove to be hugely effective
Experience a jazz-fusion soloing masterclass with Soft Machine's John Etheridge
Learn some valuable lead lessons from the guitar ace
Learn John Petrucci's ultimate guitar warm-up routine
The pre-gig routine of the legend of progressive shred
Latest reviews
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Arturia MicroFreak review
- £279
- €299
- $349
This funky French digital-analogue hybrid aims to bring something new to the hardware synth table
IK Multimedia SampleTank 4 Max review
- €600
This venerable ROMpler is looking and sounding better than ever
Roland TB-303 Software Bass Line review
At last, one of the greatest synths ever made gets the official software emulation
