Korg’s Liano is now available in 6 different colours, so which one looks the best?
Black, white, grey, silver, blue or red?
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FabFilter Twin 3 review
- €129
Twin is one of the few softsynths to have reached ‘legendary’ status. After 14 years, it now reaches version 3, but was it worth the wait?
Klevgrand and Wintergartan have created Speldosa, a magical music box plugin
The man behind the marble machine gives you his “secret sauce”
Focal ST6 Sub12 review
- £2149
We take a deep dive into this behemoth of bass from premium audio brand Focal
MIDI’s 40th anniversary is set to be celebrated at the 2023 NAMM Show, and MIDI 2.0 is also being previewed
Plus, Chuck D will be on hand to celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip-hop
Tony Banks on why he would have “screwed up” In The Air Tonight if Phil Collins had given it to Genesis
“I bet I would’ve said, ‘Phil, what are you doing, you can’t use just three chords in a song”
Roland’s Zenology Pro plugin hits version 2.0: more sounds and a refined user interface
The Zen-Core-powered soft synth gets an update
A firmware update for the cut-price Yamaha DX9 synth makes it more like a DX7
40 years after its release, an alternative ROM removes some of the DX9's artificial limitations
Peter Gabriel on music and AI: “I think you do better if you work with a powerful new tool than just grumble or pretend it doesn’t exist”
Of the end of Genesis, he says: “I had been there at the beginning, so I should be there at the end”
KRK GoAux 3 and 4 review
- £349 upward
Need to take your monitors with you? We check out a new solution from KRK
Slate + Ash Choreographs review
- £249
What happens if you apply step movement and choreography to software synthesis? Slate + Ash hopes to enlighten and surprise you
Jacob Collier on his relationship with Quincy Jones: “I said ‘I don’t want any help with mixing, I want to do it all myself’... he really respected that”
There’s no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ way to make music, adds Collier: “It’s all just made up. You have to find your own way”
Donner B1 Analog Bass Sequencer review
- £185
Donner enters the analogue synth realm with a 303 clone that sounds the part – even if it doesn’t look it
“Parents are putting less pressure on their kids,” says Lang Lang, as he prepares for the final of The Piano by playing at St Pancras station
Watch his performances of Flight of the Bumblebee and Liszt’s Liebesträume on the concourse
Groovifi is a free app that promises a better way to create Spotify playlists by letting you decide the mood, BPM, key, rhythm and genre of your songs
If the algorithm isn’t cutting it, maybe it’s time for you to take control
Orchestral Tools Drones review
- €189 + VAT
If you thought drones were merely functional, you need a better sound library. OT’s new suite takes the drone to a higher level
Yamaha’s CK88 and CK61 aren’t just stage pianos - they’re portable keyboards that you can play anywhere
Lightweight models inherit sounds from the CP and YC ranges
Eventide H90 Harmonizer review
- £999
Is the Eventide H90 just two H9s stuck together? We go on a sonic journey to find out
