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Bon Iver's Justin Vernon also reveals the vintage instrument behind the song's bassline, which he says is his "favourite synth ever"
Collection 6 also features SGX-2, an acoustic piano instrument based on the SGX-2 Premium Piano Engine from Korg's Kronos and Nautilus workstations
The collection includes a "treasure trove of synths, drum machines, and vocoders" alongside an extensive number of historic woodwind and brass instruments
MG4+ is Antelope's take on a popular 500-Series six-band analogue EQ renowned for introducing top-end shine and clarity
"Thomas told me in this lift on the way down to the show that the first time he fell in love with electronic music was in this building in 1992. He also told me hasn’t played a proper set without the mask on for 24 years"
"One of the funniest things about my job is this total distortion of how it works. It’s so odd to me how everyone has such a clear assumption on how it happened, and they weren’t there. No one was there"
Reports suggest that preorders for the VCS3 and Pro-16 have been cancelled at Sweetwater due to discontinued development
Equipped with an optimized vocal tuning algorithm, Antares says the plugin represents "the most significant update in the software's history"
"The industrial magic of Erica Synths techno weapons, fused with the DNA of Hexinverter’s mutant circuits"
A new 1.1.0 firmware update brings sample slicing and sidechain-style ducking to the monochrome synth/sampler
Omnisphere 3 arrives with "thousands and thousands" of new sounds, a new global control system, an expanded effects engine, patch mutation, MPE support – and much, much more
MODX M brings the AN-X analogue modelling engine from its high-end sibling to a new workstation synth and successor to the MODX+
Eno and Beatie Wolfe's Liminal will be broadcast using the historic Holmdel Horn antenna with assistance from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist
A diminutive take on Casio's '80s classic, CZ-1 Mini squeezes the CZ series' phase distortion engine into a $89 mini-synth
The next generation of Akai's portable and affordable MIDI controller is here
The high-flying hitmaker reflects on the making of Cyrus' Grammy-winning chart smash
A lean, mean, speaker-rattling ode to freakdom, Missy Elliott's Get Ur Freak On is one of this century's most progressive pop songs. We explain its enduring influence
The 120g device combines a dual-mode microphone, wireless in-ear monitors and a built-in USB-C audio interface
The IXO12, IXO22, UR22C, and UR44C audio interfaces have been relaunched under the Yamaha brand and all other Steinberg interfaces will be "gradually phased out"
Dropping the built-in audio interface and slashing the price, Allen & Heath positions K3 as a flexible budget controller for club or studio setups
The Loop Recorder has been beefed up with slicing and step recording, and you can now utilize custom-built oscillators and effects via the Logue SDK platform
This '80s gem packaged a polysynth, brass and string sections into a single instrument, popping up on records by everyone from Yes and OMD to Phoenix
The Grammy-tipped producer invites Universal Audio into his LA studio for the next edition of the company's Apollo Creators video series
