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NAMM 2025: "More than an audio interface": Bitwig's Connect 4/12 interface packs hidden features that Bitwig Studio users will love

DAW-maker Bitwig goes hard for the first time and we've captured Connects secrets on video, live from the NAMM show 2025

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"The Layers is a subtle and unique pedal, with a lot of expressive depth": MXR Layers review

MXR's soundscaping pedal will sample, modulate, pitch-shift and stack your sound for lush, rich textures

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How to connect your audio interface to your computer – for both PC and Mac users

My guide to hooking up your audio interface to a laptop or computer, step-by-step

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“Technology is cool, but you’ve got to use it as opposed to letting it use you”: Why Prince never allowed gear to lead the way and how we can take back control of our tech

It’s pretty easy to be daunted by the sheer quantity of music technology at your disposal, but always remember - it's there to serve you

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NAMM 2025: “Looking for a guitar that blends modern specs with raw, uncompromising power? We call it the ST-Modern HH Plus” – Harley Benton’s hotly anticipated dual humbucker S-style is here

First impressions? Blink-182 fans are going to love it but with two humbuckers, splittable coils and stainless steel frets it is a very different beast to Tom DeLonge’s single-pickup powerhouse

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NAMM 2025: StudioLogic’s new SL mk2 MIDI keyboards promise tight control of both the Numa Player 2 software and your favourite DAW

Another step forward for hardware/software integration?

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“I used it to show people that the way they were portraying me wasn’t breaking me": How Taylor Swift created a self-empowering pop classic

"I had more fun writing it than any song I’d written before”

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NAMM 2025: "Unlike anything seen before" - Melbourne Instruments' new desktop device could revolutionise studio software and hardware control, and is designed to work great with Ableton Live

ROTO Control is cool, compact, and uses motorised controllers to tame your gear and plugins

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NAMM 2025: “The NAMM Show has always been an excuse for guitar-makers to pull out all the stops”: Gibson turns the clock back to 1955 for a commemorative Murphy Lab Les Paul in five holy grail custom colours

Thanks to Joe Bonamassa, you'll all be familiar with Copper Iridescent, but how about a P-90 loaded Custom Shop LP in Samoa Beige, Nugget Gold, Viceroy Brown and Platinum?

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NAMM 2025: Roland V-Stage serves up legendary, pro-keyboard sounds in two new premium-priced packages

We get up close – on video – with Roland's two new live performance powerhouses

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NAMM 2025: Behringer's BX1 synth might well be the biggest surprise of the show, but it's not the on-the-nose Yamaha clone you might have been expecting

The biggest surprise is how much it adds to the original

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NAMM 2025: Hands-on with Korg's first ever synth as it comes back to life as the MiniKorg 700Sm

Live from the NAMM show 2025 we get a guided tour of Korg's latest fan-pleasing mini-fication

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NAMM 2025: “I’ve honestly never felt a smoother neck in my life”: Cory Wong feels the humbucker heat as the funk guitar virtuoso and Ernie Ball Music Man team up for StingRay II and StingRay II Deluxe

Wong is still a paid-up member of the Stratocaster club but says he has been on the hunt for humbucker-equipped guitar for years and this is the one

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NAMM 2025: We can now get a proper look at Kurzweil’s new K20 series synths, which promise to be a VAST improvement on the ‘90s classic that inspired them

A K2000 for 2025

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“You gotta ask him that. We sort of know…” Did Shaun Ryder just reveal who’s playing drums for Oasis this summer?

The ex-Happy Mondays and Mantra Of The Cosmos baggy superstar may have just put his foot in it…

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NAMM 2025: “The all-new Hypersonic Mode will kick that pitch shift straight into the stratosphere”: DigiTech and MonoNeon team up for a radical new Whammy Pedal for guitar and bass with three-octave range

DigiTech is calling this its “boldest” Whammy design yet and the specs back this up. Is the world ready for a pinch harmonic and a three-octave pitch rise? It’d better be…

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NAMM 2025: "In a few years there will be no piano that doesn't have a camera": Can ROLI’s AI-powered, hand-tracking Piano rewrite learning to play?

Live and direct from the NAMM show floor, we get the lowdown on ROLI’s latest gear on video

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NAMM 2025: “You place the wah, and leave it there, and that’s the tone”: With a little help from Bob Rock, Dunlop honours David Bowie’s maestro of the cocked wah, Mick Ronson, with signature Cry Baby

This super-cool Cry Baby is based on Ronson's original vintage Italian-made model

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“When used in conjunction with other unextended chords, it will sound amazing”: How to enhance your songwriting with major sevenths

From bossanovas to Carole King and even James Bond villains, the major seventh can completely change your song’s mood.

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NAMM 2025: “If you think of just the word ‘guitar,’ I think of aMartinD-28:” Bluegrass virtuoso Billy Strings teams up with Martin for a pair of signature acoustic guitars based on his pre-war 1940 dreadnought

One is classically high-end Martin, the other retails at $899 – both are built for pickin' quick

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“Oh, no no no! Nobody knows what we look like!”: How bass legend Nathan East almost blew Daft Punk’s cover... then "got lucky" on their biggest hit

"With the Nile thing it really had the ‘Chic’ [sound], and I wanted to do my best Bernard Edwards impersonation!"

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NAMM 2025: Shure takes to the stage with new instrument, headset and vocal mics

New wireless receivers join the party, too

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NAMM 2025: “The approachable playability and inspiring tone that made Fender an icon of rock and roll” – Strats and Teles at $599? Fender's budget-friendly Standard series is its most affordable yet

Five classic models, sweet finishes like Candy Cola and O.G. Butterscotch Blonde... These are going to be popular

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NAMM 2025: ROLI’s Piano is a larger keyboard for use with its Airwave hand-tracking hardware and music learning software, but is it large enough?

49-note controller has light-up keys, per-note pitchbend and polyphonic aftertouch

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“Calling anything with a loop or sample in it ‘hardgroove’ is kinda annoying and often misunderstands what the sound actually is”: Exploring the hardgroove genre

This techno subgenre has been rediscovered in recent years, but what elements make it stand apart from the rest?

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