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Synths · 110 stories, +52 vs last week

Synths: 110 stories in seven days, +52 on the week before.

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DJ MagLive & DJSerato DJ launches on mobile for the first time The new iOS app brings two-deck mixing, stem controls, Lucid Beatgrid, and hardware and DVS support to iPhone and iPad

Rolling Stone IndiaAsiaAnika Nilles on Her Rush Journey: ‘I Have No Ego, So I Play What’s Required’ When Rush ‘s Geddy Lee first encountered Anika Nilles via YouTube, he immediately recognized that she wasn’t just a singularly capable drummer who happened to specialize in odd time signatures, but…

Bass MagazineGuitarsBrian Bromberg: Rise and Shine When it comes to inspiration for a record, Brian Bromberg has had quite a diverse array of influences over his five-decade career.

Rolling Stone IndiaAsiaTurnstile Raise Over $250,000 for Charity at Massive Free Washington D.C. Show Turnstile closed out their Never Enough Pt. 2 Tour over the weekend with a massive free concert at the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.

Rolling Stone IndiaAsiaHow ‘What Makes You Beautiful’ Became One Direction’s Perfect Introduction When One Direction were eliminated from The X Factor UK after 10 long weeks of learning to be in a band together, they made their exit with a promise: “We’re definitely going to stay together.

MatrixSynthSynthsOral Histories - Warren Burt video upload by Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio (MESS) "Warren Burt arrived in Australia in 1975 and the landscape of Australian electronic and experimental music changed forever.

Bandwagon AsiaAsiaGK returns with introspective EP ‘G.Race’ featuring HANSE, OMEGA X’s Yechan & JinE GK explores the pressures of ambition and the support that makes it possible to keep going on his new EP, G.Race .

MixdownGearMarkbass releases the Little Mark Ninja 58R The Little Mark Ninja 58R is now shipping, putting the sound of the Little Mark Ninja Richard Bona signature head into a new 58R-series amp.

Digital Music NewsIndustrySuno Investor In the Hot Seat After Undermining the Platform’s Fair Use Defense: Judge Green-Lights Deposition of Ex-Menlo Employee Who Deleted Incriminating Tweet Photo Credit: Lucas van Oort Suno investor Menlo Ventures has been slapped with a subpoena, and now, one of its former execs will soon be deposed over a tweet that could undermine the platform’s…

MixdownGearJason Richardson’s Sterling Cutlass now shipping in Kokiri Forest Green Jason Richardson’s Sterling by Music Man Cutlass now comes in Kokiri Forest, a deep green finish that lets the grain of a poplar burl veneer top show through, and both the six- and seven-string…

MatrixSynthSynthsGS Music Bree6 keyboard - Argentinian Honey! video upload by Pork Chop Synthesizers "What an absolute delight of a synthesizer! GS Music clearly produces love letters to vintage synthesizers in the form of their hardware offerings, and the…

Bandwagon AsiaAsiaRIIZE explore acoustic pop & sleepless longing on ‘Insomnia’ — watch RIIZE are turning down the volume and letting their voices take the lead. Released on 26 October via SM Entertainment and RCA Records , the group’s new single ‘Insomnia’ marks their…

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Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.