Kawai’s cut-price K1 keyboard can now be downloaded as a free VST plugin
Find out why 1988’s ‘poor man’s D-50’ was such a success
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Ennio Morricone, legendary movie soundtrack composer, has died aged 91
“Ennio was an icon and icons just don’t go away,” says Hans Zimmer
Should the iRig Keys 2 Mini be your next portable MIDI keyboard?
25 keys, USB power, MIDI I/O and an audio output
Spitfire Audio’s Westworld Scoring Competition descends into bitterness and acrimony as Hans Zimmer says of winner’s critics: “I wouldn’t want to work with a single one of you”
Here’s what happened when a composer made HBO’s blockbuster TV series sound like it’s set in the Mushroom Kingdom
4 classic Roland ‘80s synths are coming to the Zenology plugin: the JX-8P, SH-101, Juno-106, and Jupiter-8
They’re compatible with your Jupiter-X and Xm hardware, too
NI’s Stradivari Violin is a solo string instrument that’s been “almost 300 years in the making”
A sampled version of a rare Antonio Stradivari violin that was made in 1727
Get Daft Punk and Herbie Hancock’s vocoder of choice with the X201 plugin
Rare Sennheiser VSM201 was also used to create classic sci-fi sounds
Cassette Roads is a free VST electric piano plugin that sounds like it was recorded on an ‘80s tape deck in your bedroom
A lo-fi instrument that can be used to play “vaporwave lullabies”
The 21 most important products and innovations in music technology history
From the mic to the MP3, we countdown the biggest tech breakthroughs of all time
Dreadbox and Sinevibes’ drop the super-cute Typhon analogue synth
Synth developer and plugin specialist join forces for a compact analogue/digital hybrid
MeldaProduction’s MonasteryGrand is a free multi-gigabyte piano for your DAW
Get this carefully-sampled instrument for nothing
ElectroNylon puts an acoustic guitar and electric piano in one VST plugin, and you can morph between them
Get busy with some realtime spectral transformation
10 annoying things we don't miss about old recording studios
Tangled cables, unwanted noise, tuning problems and more
Novation’s Launchkey MK3 MIDI keyboards promise “deeper Ableton Live integration than ever before”
Enhanced controller can also work standalone with your hardware synths and other MIDI gear
Google’s Shared Piano is a free and brilliantly simple way to make music together online
Up to 10 people can jam together, with no sign-up or log-in required
Prince’s Purple Rain Yamaha DX7 synth is up for sale and could fetch $25,000
EMAX II sampler and disks are also going under the digital hammer
Brett Domino on the 5 greatest keytar synth solos of all time
Featuring George Duke, Herbie Hancock, Rick Wakeman and more
Tape Cassette 2 is a free VST plugin that promises reel old-school flavour
It also runs on iOS devices
Waldorf Iridium looks set to bring the Quantum super-synth to your desktop or rack
Powerful hybrid technology in a more compact form?