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Music technology gear of the year 2024: The 10 best new synths, samplers and drum machines

We count down our favourite music tech hardware from the past 12 months

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Best portable piano keyboards to play anywhere, anytime

Play storming gigs or just practice quietly with these top portable piano picks

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“Think in terms of finding sounds which are the electronic equivalent of a string section; subtle, but you know they're there and you would miss them if they weren’t”:How to start making ambient techno in 10 steps

Keep it chilled, with our 10-step guide to creating the perfect starting point for ambient techno.

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"Chorus is a beautiful effect when used nicely, but it can also sound horrible if over-applied - unless that’s what you want": How to harness the chorus effect to give your tracks more life!

"Chorus is a beautiful effect when used nicely, but it can also sound horrible if over-applied - unless that’s what you want"

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“At first people only saw me as grandpa playing music, but then they wanted to listen. They love the banging techno!”: Meet the viral 67-year-old producer raving into retirement - and proving that techno has no age limit

The Last DJ has built an audience of hundreds of thousands performing live electronic music at home. We sit down with the sexagenarian Syntakt fan to find out how he did it

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“You’ve ruined the song!”: The bust-ups, bickering, tantrums and tech that made The Human League’s Don’t You Want Me an ’80s anthem

It’s one of the defining hits of that decade, but it didn’t come easy

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This is not a typo – you can save more than $1,000 on a Universal Audio guitar effects bundle in what is hands-down the biggest Black Friday gear deal you’ll come across this year

Six plugins inspired by legendary effects pedals and rack units beloved by the likes of Pink Floyd, U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers and countless others are included in the absurdly discounted bundle

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Roland’s SH-4d was one of my favorite instruments of last year – and it’s down to a bargain price this Black Friday

This multi-part groovebox is a great source of creative inspiration, and it's a bargain for under $400

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"A great beginner keyboard, and a potential gateway into electronic music making in general": Roland Go Keys 3 and 5 review

The beginner keyboard market gets a couple of fresh contenders that offer more than you might think

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“Breaking past the familiar”: Bitwig brings the beats with a robust new point update, adding 25 new Roland-inspired drum families, Stepwise sequencer and Windows on ARM support

A salvo of new additions include a range of drum types, a new Master Recording section and support for Windows on ARM

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“My custom-made classical guitar with the synth module was stolen while we were on tour. I got it back thanks to some people who worked with Joe Bonamassa”: Steve Morse on gear-buying, his ‘FrankenTele’ and why he needs four pickups – no more, no less

A gearhead through and through, the Dixie Dregs and ex-Deep Purple guitarist reveals some of his follies and lessons learned along the way

Guitar World

Roland’s new AI ‘technology preview’ claims it can “freshen ideas, remove writer’s block, and discover the undiscovered” – and you can try it right now

Tone Explorer uses neutral networks to match Roland Cloud sounds to your MIDI phrases

MusicRadar

“I’m not getting any sound from one of my pads!”: 10 common electronic drum set issues and how to troubleshoot them

Don’t let annoying gremlins spoil your playing. From no sound to too much noise, most problems can be solved with some simple settings or affordable upgrades - here’s how

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Roland Cubes, plastic pedalboards and nothing but Boss: Robert Smith’s 2024 guitar rig flies in the face of modern guitar culture – and sounds all the more majestic for it

As The Cure return to the stage with their first album in 16 years, their leader is employing a setup that defiantly rejects contemporary tonal wisdom

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“I’ve never played a barre chord in my life. I hate them. You don’t need more than two or three notes to express a chord”: Andy Summers on his “abstracted instrumental” collabs with Robert Fripp, his dream pedalboard, and what he learned from Béla Bartók

It was the ’80s and Andy Summers was living the dream as guitar culture grew, and his side-project with King Crimson's mad-genius Fripp gave him the opportunity to work his art-house cinema influences into music

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“Now I realize how little you really need to create good music when you just pick the right sounds - whether that’s on purpose or by accident”: How Darude created Sandstorm, the meme-worthy trance anthem named after a synth preset

Love it or hate it, Sandstorm’s relentless lead synth line must be one of the most recognizable melodies in dance music. Darude tells DJ Mag how the iconic track was made

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Roland’s new Earth Piano instrument puts “50 years of piano development” into your DAW

Grand, upright and felt pianos are all here

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Ever wanted to play your synth like a violin? A Japanese DIY enthusiast has made that a reality

The Arduino-powered ‘Key-bowed’ is built around an adapted Roland MIDI keyboard

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Roland just unveiled its V-Drums Quiet Design VQD106 kits, delivering “the lowest playing-noise in the history of electronic drum kits”

The electronic drums giant claims the VQD106 is 75% quieter than a regular electronic kit

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“You’ve only go to look at the dynamic potential of 10 fingers on a keyboard compared to 10 fingers on a guitar ”: Steve Howe on six-string explorations and how a Novatron Summit opened a window into fresh chord voicings on his new solo album

Guitarscape, is the sound of the prog icon deploying his guitar collection in search of new sonic frontiers. The results are typically inventive, and here the Yes guitarist tells us how it came together

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Roland overhauls its high-end electronic drum sets with the introduction of the 7 Series V-drums and VAD kits: “a dynamic new chapter in the V-Drums legacy”

The TD-716, TD-713 and VAD716 are powered by the new V71 module and there’s a lot of new features!

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Roland’s revamped Juno-D synths are “streamlined keyboards for gigging musicians and budding music creators”

Roland’s latest spin on its Zen-Core format includes vocal processing, USB audio and handy performance tools

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"The biggest lesson I learned is that it’s possible to make an album with limited gear and poor skills in abedroom which can be talked about 30 years later": Ken Ishii on Reference to Difference

Flare (aka Ken Ishii), the techno god from Sapporo, tells us how about how the making of his 1994 techno classic was a personal game changer

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This free synth and sampler plugin comes with over 2GB of samples from "the world's rarest synthesizers"

Wavea Flite's free version is packed with samples from Yamaha CS-80, Roland Juno 106, Jupiter 8, SH-101, Oberheim OB-8, Prophet 5, Korg Monopoly and more

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Roland’s Aira Compact P-6 puts ‘creative sampling’ in your pocket, and has a built-in mic and USB-C audio interface

A take-anywhere device that enables you to sample and sequence the world around you and anything else

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