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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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Roland celebrates 45 years of the JUPITER-08 with a new uber-compact addition to the Boutique series – plus a brand-new wavetable synth

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Introduced in 2015, Roland ’s Boutique series comprises uber-compact and portable desktop synthesizers using Analogue Circuit Behaviour (ACB) and digital modelling to faithfully recreate vintage…

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