NAMM 2024: In one of the most exciting gear announcements made in the lead-up to NAMM 2024 so far, Yamaha has unveiled a new product that looks like it could be one of the stars of this year's show.

This sequencer-focused synth-drum machine hybrid combines Roland’s quality analogue emulations with several genuinely unique synthesis modes and a deceptively complex, multi-layered drum synth.

The plugin simulates the original Z80 chip found in the original drum machine, and - despite its lack of sequencer - recreates its endearingly clunky song and pattern-based workflow. Tuning and levels ...

Though it comprises samplers, drum machines, MIDI controllers and sequencers in addition to hardware synths, Gabbai has chosen to omit Eurorack and Buchla-format modules. Gabbai kicks off by tracing ...

While softsynths and plugins have certainly given the classics (both old and new) a run for their money, some producers will ...

From the 60s to perhaps the mid-00s, the path to musical stardom was essentially straight with very few forks. As a teenager ...

Two years on from his departure from Leeds alternative rock band Pulled Apart By Horses, their former lead guitarist James ...

Neither did we. Thankfully [Sara Adkins] did, and created a step sequencer called Let’s Go that uses the classic board game Go as input. In the game Go, two players place black and white tokens ...

Generative AI challenges the very idea of music being something that is made by human beings, and it does so by reducing the ...

It was the ’80s and Andy Summers was living the dream as guitar culture grew, and his side-project with King Crimson's ...

Yuma Hampejs and Marcel Schulze, authors of a new book, Eletronic Body Music, present a playlist that embodies the visceral, ...

Ivy broke out in the early 2000s with "Edge of the Ocean." As their album “Long Distance” makes its vinyl debut, the surviving members reflect on its creation.