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Synths · 115 stories, +42 vs last week

Synths: 115 stories in seven days, +42 on the week before.

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Ultimate GuitarGuitarsDeep Purple's Guitarist Quit In The Middle Of A Tour, And They Finished It With Joe Satriani [News] Trends : "I was offended that he would ask me that, because I was such a fan of Richie Blackmore."

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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

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

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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

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PLSNLive & DJA Look Back and A Look Behind the Design of the Beck Night Running Tour Electronic Countermeasures offers a behind-the-scenes look back at how they designed and created the visual world for the 2019 Beck Night Running Tour and how they transported Beck into a mirrored…

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Production ExpertStudios & prosAnalog Obsession TheMachine Is a Free Tape Plugin for 2026 Analog Obsession has released TheMachine, a tube-driven tape machine emulation, and like the rest of the catalogue, it's free to download from the developer’s Patreon.

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No TrebleGuitarsWeekly Top 10: A Plague Bass, an “Outlaw” Gibson, and MXR’s First Tuner Dunable’s Plague Bass, MXR’s first tuner, and an unauthorized Gibson build lead this week’s top 10, plus Iron Maiden, Donny Benét, Derek Frank, and more.

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MatrixSynthSynthsRev2 Demo No. 2 - Improv With Custom Programs video upload by Theodore Kloba "Improvisations on the DSI (Sequential) Prophet Rev2, using my own custom programs."00:00 Start00:03 Pressure Pad MOD01:00 Pulsating Quasar01:35 Mysterious Isle02:15…

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MatrixSynthSynthsAudio Magazine 1972 Synth Edition video upload by Gavin Haslehurst "Narrated by Richard Baker"

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TonebendersVoices381 - Crystal Lake Crystal Lake is the hit new prequel series to the Friday The 13th franchise. The sound team had tricky tightrope walk, to find the tone of the original series but also make it something new as well.

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MatrixSynthSynthsSynthFest 2026: First Time at the UK's Biggest Synth Event (Sheffield UK) video upload by Music Tech Info and Cyber Monday https://www.synthfest.co.uk/

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Guitar PlayerGuitarsChuck Berry was buried with a Gibson ES-355. His son reveals his family's brain-twisting task to honor the Father of Rock and Roll It's a well-known fact that Chuck Berry was buried with a Gibson ES-355 semihollow electric guitar to keep him company in the afterlife.

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