Arturia has announced Efx Refract, a stereo multi-effect “with versatility at its core”, and has only gone and made it free until the 4 January. It’s the latest in a series of free music software giveaways this year, making 2023 something of a bumper freebie year. And if you download one free plugin this year, we reckon you should make it this one…
We thought we had it good with Tom Bukovac’s chord lesson last week, but it looks like the Nashville session ace and tutor Brett Papa are just getting started. They’ve got a picking lesson and it’s inspiring and eye-opening in equal measures.
Seiko is broadening the appeal of its 5 Sports collection of affordable trend-led automatics with the launch of two models with a field watch design and the added functionality of a second time zone hand and 24 hour bezel.
There is a raw steel version on a steel bracelet and an all-black piece on a black strap it calls the Seiko 5 Sports Deception.
MINDst Drums is a highly detailed sampled drum kit equipped with a new sampler engine designed by Modalics specifically for this plugin. In creating the software, Modalics collaborated with “long-time musical collaborator and drum guru” Doron Giat to figure out how to capture the nuance and detail of an authentic drum performance using sampling technology.
Who knows whether the Behringer UB-Xa will win any awards for its performance, but we’d like to give it some kind of prize right now for being the synth with the longest time between announcement and release. Believe it not, we wrote our first story about this Oberheim OB-Xa clone back in January 2018 – that’s almost six years ago – but only now is it finally ready to come to market.
Casio Computer Co., Ltd. announced today the release of new additions to the G-SHOCK brand of shock-resistant watches. The three new GW-B5600CD watches are the brand’s latest collaboration with the Charles Darwin Foundation, an organization that engages in environmental conservation activities in the Galápagos Islands.
The high-end shred machine has a Seymour Duncan ’59 humbucker, an Original Floyd Rose for whammy-bar misadventure, a hockey stick headstock and 40 years of history Kramer has a rich and proud history of high-performance electric guitars that armed the first generation of shredders, and to celebrate this, the brand has reached into the archive to reissue …
This recommended v1.05 update incorporates a wide range of fixes relating to the metronome tempo, the storing of parameters, the appearance of button LEDs, pedal functionality, recorder and SMF saving, and various other improvements.
Korg has unveiled Keystage, its first ever MIDI 2.0 keyboard controller designed for both on stage and in-studio use.
Described as the “ultimate MIDI keyboard for producers and performers”, Keystage comes in two variations — 49 or 61 keys — and is equipped with a semi-weighted keybed that supports both channel and polyphonic Aftertouch, and MPE (MIDI Polyphonic Expression).
The MS-50G+ multi-FX can be any effect you want it to be, including an amp modeler with impulse responses – and it offers serious competition to the Line 6 HX One
