Kicking things off in fine style this year is Japanese manufacturer Sonicware, best known for its highly affordable synths, samplers and grooveboxes, who has just released a fantastic-looking drum ...

So that was the NAMM 2025 that was. Another year of GAS-inducing announcments saw the world's premier music gear show ...

It’s a music-making environment that’s programmable in Python, runs on your big computer or on an ESP32-S3, and comes complete with some nice sounding synth engines, a sequencer, and a drum ...

So the first plugin in the chain needs to be a flexible parametric EQ with frequency analyser. Raw drum hits, whether live or drum-machine-generated, can be annoyingly lacklustre, and they often ...