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Save $/£400 on Apple’s 16-inch MacBook Pro: a great music-making laptop at the lowest price we’ve seen yet
Grab the Core i7 model for $/£1,999
Little Dragon: "We’ve done this playing and composing thing for a long time, so I’d be surprised if we didn’t get any better at it."
With the release of their sixth album New Me, Same Us, Little Dragon find themselves at the peak of their powers
Eventide is letting you download its new Undulator tremolo plugin for $19 and donating all proceeds to social justice initiatives
“Magical” effect is the latest to be transplanted from the H3000
SoundCloud can now automatically master your tracks as you upload them using Dolby technology
Get a "release-ready" sound in seconds
Fender embraces its short-scale guitars with five new Player Series models
The stunning and affordable new Duo-Sonic and Mustang guitars and basses are out now
Native Instruments releases free charity artist sound pack featuring content for Maschine, Logic, Ableton Live, Massive and more
Sia, Take a Daytrip and Just Blaze are among those who’ve contributed
6 songs guitarists need to hear by… Iron Maiden
Where to start with the quintessential heavy metal band
Billy Joel plays discarded piano on the street, then wonders why it’s being thrown out
“It’s a perfectly good piano,” says the Piano Man
Gibson involved in new legal disputes with Satellite Amplifiers and Collings Guitars
"Gibson must protect itself from this and other similar opportunistic tactics, despite the potential distractions being created," the company says of the Satellite Amplifiers dispute
ShapeShifter is a quirky compressor plugin that can cause “blown-open, raucous carnage”
Aberrant DSP releases a ‘dynamics remodeller’
"Paul Baloff was so pissed that he poured a beer over my head" – Kirk Hammett on quitting Exodus to join Metallica
The guitarist also reveals he was on the toilet when he got the call from Metallica
MasterClass: Sheila E. Teaches Drumming and Percussion course available now
The 15-lesson course is available now at MasterClass.com
Rick Wakeman on his top 5 synths: “I suddenly had an instrument that could give the guitar a run for its money”
“Without synths, I wouldn’t have been able to play the music I wanted to play”
SampleRadar: 327 free vocal ad-lib samples
Give your songs a human touch with these audio embellishments
So you want to be a... videogames composer: Alan Wake and Control soundtrack creator Petri Alanko - "I sometimes think film composers have it really, really, really easy"
Tips on breaking into music professionally, from people at the top of their field
Samplr turns your MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar into a hands-on loop slicer for free
That strip above your keyboard might be useful after all...