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Teenage Engineering's TX-6, TP-7 and CM-15 are back in black
By Matt Mullen published
New sleek, matte-black versions of Teenage Engineering's TX-6 mixer, TP-7 field recorder and CM-15 microphone are now shipping

This “world’s first” AI-powered plugin controller could take the headache out of manual MIDI mapping for good
By Matt Mullen published
"No menu diving stealing your time. No manual mapping killing your flow. Dialr is always mapped and always ready"

Raye on her decision to work with Amy Winehouse producer Mark Ronson, and those inevitable comparisons
By Ben Rogerson published
“I really just wanted to be like, ‘Do you know what? I just need to forget what anyone else is gonna say about this’”

Neil Peart called him 'the Wood Whisperer' and now he's blended metal and timber in DW's new SonicPly shells
By Daniel Griffiths published
Fusing up to 12 plies of wood with two plies of aluminum they promise presence and power like no other

Piano basics: the black notes - what are they for and how do you use them?
By MusicRadar published
Fear of a black key?… Don't be afraid. Adding flats and sharps to your music will give it a new lease of life.

"A tape delay plugin that finally sounds like the real thing": Heritage Audio takes on the legendary Echoplex with its TAPEoPLEX plugin
By Matt Mullen published
Favoured by Brian May, Jimmy Page and Joe Satriani, the Echoplex is one of history's most iconic effects units

“Pigments is becoming so powerful it risks making the V Collection look obsolete”: Arturia Pigments review
By Si Truss published
With physical modelling and a vocoder among the additions for Pigments 6, we explore why Arturia’s flagship softsynth is very much worth your time in 2025

Omar recalls the unusual reason why his first attempt to record with Stevie Wonder came to nothing
By Ben Rogerson published
“So that was the end of that session,” he remembers

Arturia launches MiniFreak Vocoder Edition and drops firmware update for existing owners
By Matt Mullen published
The new edition of MiniFreak comes in a white/orange paint-job with a detachable 30cm gooseneck mic - but if you already own a MiniFreak, you can still use the new vocoder

“Due to digital, music now has a terrible sort of housewifely tidiness”: Brian Eno on sonic perfectionism, Bowie and his new collaborative double album
By Danny Turner published
We visit Brian Eno in the studio to find out more about Luminal and Lateral, a collaborative project with conceptual artist Beatie Wolfe
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