Home practice sessions are something that benefit every guitar player and there’s plenty of gear options out there to facilitate that when it’s not possible to use a full rig, whether that be a headphone amp

Korg turned up to Superbooth in a rather coquettish mood this year, teasing attendees with a new synth displayed proudly at the centre of its booth, albeit covered with a blue tarp to mask its identity.

Rowing Blazers has teamed up with Seiko for a fourth time, releasing two new limited-edition watches designed in partnership with vintage watch expert Eric Wind of Wind Vintage.

Fresh from the release of Voxcraft, a versatile plugin designed for creative vocal manipulation, UJAM has unveiled Retrocraft, a multi-effect that’s built for adding vintage character to audio through saturation, degradation and colouration.

Following on from the release of the ’25 Series’ last year, which (as the name suggests) commemorated 25 years of cymbal production for Zultan, the all-new Alaris Series continues to expand an already vast array of traditionally manufactured cymbals for the German cymbal-smith.

As debate rages over Fender’s much-publicised legal campaign over the rights to the Stratocaster body shape, the company’s CEO Edward ‘Bud’ Cole has spoken out at a dealer event in the US to clarify the reasoning behind this controversial strategy.

Sonic Charge’s Synplant 2 is one of the most innovative synth plugins released in recent years, not only thanks to its unique ‘genetic’ workflow, but also the groundbreaking Genopatch function introduced in version 2. Genopatch is an AI-powered tool that generates synth patches based on imported audio, analysing a sample to create a similar-sounding patch in Synplant based on its sonic characteristics.

Seiko’s long history in diver’s watches reaches back to when the company created Japan’s first diver’s watch in 1965. The following year, in 1966, two American dive enthusiasts founded PADI® to raise training standards and expand access to diving education. Sixty years after its founding, PADI has grown to become the world’s largest diving organization.

Every good pianist knows the importance of dynamics – how loudly or quietly you play, basically – but other tonal terms have always been somewhat more subjective. Can you really make a piece sound ‘warmer’, ‘darker’, ‘brighter’ or ‘heavier’, for example, given that, once the hammer hits the string, the tone of the sound is supposedly out of your control?

Released in 2013, Ableton’s Push was the hardware that turned its Live DAW into a playable instrument (Ableton never liked to think of it as a controller)