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Japan-made · 56 stories, +34 vs last week

Japan-made: 56 stories in seven days, +34 on the week before.

EuropeRoland JUPITER-08: Neuer Boutique-Synthesizer zum 45. Jubiläum delamar

SynthsRoland TR-1000 Firmware 1.5 Adds Keyboard Mode, FM Instruments & New Effects Synthtopia

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RekkerdDAW & pluginsFREE: VAULTS 100 Year Old Piano by The Crow Hill Company The Crow Hill Company has recently released a new installment in the VAULTS series of free virtual instruments.

DJ MagLive & DJArca shares video for ‘XXXXX’ album track, ‘Fxck’: Watch The 16-track ‘XXXXX’ album came out in July via XL Recordings

DJ MagLive & DJTechnics unveils new SL-1210MKX direct-drive turntable Designed for DJs, the SL-1210MKX will be available from January 2027 at an RRP of £1,299

RekkerdDAW & pluginsKlevgrand releases Altitude Harmony vocal tuner & harmonizer plugin Klevgrand has introduced a new audio plugin in collaboration with Focusrite. Based on the previously released Altitude, the new plugin tunes your vocals and stacks up to three harmony voices above or…

Guitar.comGuitarsJohn Mayer celebrates launch of his own record label with new single, Tom and Jerry Big things are happening in John Mayer World; after recently announcing a massive residency at the Las Vegas Sphere for 2027 , the guitar legend has just released a brand-new single, Tom and Jerry .

Guitar WorldGuitarsMark Hoppus on blink-182’s triumphant third act, their next album and his one-off Fender Jaguar Bass Octopuses. Legendary Pokémon. blink-182 smileys. Mark Hoppus has never been one to shy away from a custom bass guitar , but now he’s made one of his favorites available to the wider world.

RekkerdDAW & pluginsfedDSP releases ECO creative delay effect plugin fedDSP has announced the release of a lightweight creative delay plugin with integrated reverb, modulation, color and advanced wet-signal shaping.

KVR Audio NewsDAW & pluginsUnusable Engineering updates Partials & Discrepancies to v1.5.0 Unusable Engineering has updated Partials & Discrepancies to version 1.5.0, adding new oscillator processing, a second filter model, expanded modulation options, glide/legato, interface changes and…

KVR Audio NewsDAW & pluginsPine DSP releases Blox Rack (VST3/AU/AAX) Pine DSP has announced the release of Blox Rack , a modular effects rack plugin with six processors that can all be loaded as individual plugins.

Lighting&Sound InternationalLive & DJPLASA and LIVE Green survey to map industry’s sustainability attitudes and achievements [UK] PLASA has partnered with LIVE Green to launch PLASA’s 2026 Sustainability Survey

Lighting&Sound InternationalLive & DJzactrack meets design challenges on Harry Styles shows [UK] When Harry Styles completed his run of 12 sold-out shows at Wembley Stadium this summer, he set a Guinness World Record for the stadium’s longest…

KVR Audio NewsDAW & pluginsManifest Audio release Sonification Tools v3 - turning real-world data into synthesis, sequences, and effects (VST3/AU/CLAP for macOS/Windows) Manifest Audio has released Sonification Tools v3 , a bundle that turns real-world data into music. It contains three plugins, Data Path , Data Synth , and Data FX , available as AU, VST3, and CLAP…

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· Trade shows and launch events, this week's stories from each corner of the industry, and what its press is covering.

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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.

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