Pianos – Keyboard and Synths – Music Instrument News Now available in a brand-new color, the KROME EX synthesizer is a real workhorse that features high-quality sounds you can use right away with an emphasis on “future basics”—all packed into a lightweight, portable design. This is a special-edition KROME EX that sports a vibrant copper-coloured … Continue reading Korg Krome EX Copper Now Available
This article is from an external source and may contain external links not controlled by Empeda Music. gearnews.com This week’s best sample packs include a beautiful string quartet that you can conduct yourself, a free grand piano with a number of interesting controls, the heaviest of 90s metal drums, and a well-rounded pack of heavy … Continue reading Best Sample Packs This Week: Classic quartet, free piano, 90s metal drums, house loops
This article is from an external source and may contain external links not controlled by Empeda Music. gearnews.com This week’s collection of the best free plug-ins brings you an awesome new Max for Live device and two classics: a wavetable synth and a gate sequencer. Here’s Spectral Attractors, Defiant WT and A1TriggerGate. Head over to … Continue reading Best free plug-ins this week: Spectral Attractors, Defiant WT and A1TriggerGate
This article is from an external source and may contain external links not controlled by Empeda Music. gearnews.com You’re standing in a showroom, hunting around for your very first polysynth. You’d imagined this would be a joyful experience. Now you’re frozen in the headlights of purchase anxiety surrounded by a horde of magical music machines. … Continue reading Your Ideal Polysnth: How (not) to choose the polyphonic synth of your dreams
This article is from an external source and may contain external links not controlled by Empeda Music. gearnews.com The world of guitar pedals has been inundated with copies of venerated vintage gear. Pedal makers large and small have been busy cloning effects that many players lust after, but cannot find or afford. And some have … Continue reading 8 cheap pedals every guitarist needs to try
This article is from an external source, and may contain external links not controlled by Empeda Music. Modern Drummer Magazine “My passion in continuing Quiet Riot has everything to do with the fact that drumming is what I’ve always wanted to do,” Quiet Riot’s Frankie Banali told Modern Drummer in a 2015 interview. “I worked … Continue reading Remembering Quiet Riot Drummer Frankie Banali
This article is from an external source and may contain external links not controlled by Empeda Music. gearnews.com Time for another amazing deal on a quality guitar, this time on a Hagstrom Swede LTD Black Dark King! If you are looking for a single-cut guitar with two humbuckers and a dark, dark soul, you might … Continue reading Deal: 1/3 off Hagstrom Swede LTD Black Dark King, a rock axe with a dark soul
This article is from an external source and may contain external links not controlled by Empeda Music. gearnews.com Ola Englund’s guitar brand Solar Guitars’ new V1.6 and V1.7 Canibalismo models both look very metal and come outfitted with some serious hardware, including an EverTune bridge system. You’d definitely be making a bold statement with any … Continue reading Solar Guitars announce new 6- and 7-string Canibalismo V.1 models
So, if you’ve ever doubted Rick Beato and his dedication to the cause, take a look at the latest edition of his ‘Recreating the Sound’ series. As part of a new mini-series, the first of which involved Rick recreating the guitar sound from Led Zeppelin’s Ramble On, Alex Van Halen’s sound gets the Beato treatment, … Continue reading Rick Beato on Alex Van Halen’s Snare Sound
This article is from an external source and may contain external links not controlled by Empeda Music. gearnews.com With solid woods used throughout, the new Harley Benton CLC-650SM-CE looks like it has all the ingredients to make a professional impression on stage – and still manages to come in at an amazing price. No laminates … Continue reading Harley Benton launches CLC-650SM-CE Solid Wood Grand Concert acoustic
