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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.

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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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Orbiton debuts an acoustic synth with vibrating reeds under every key

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Every key on the Orbiton One is attached to a thin steel reed that vibrates when you press it, and it’s those physical vibrations, rather than a velocity reading, that shape what the synth does next.

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