Roli is in the business of making weird, creatively-designed and hyper-expressive MINI instrument controllers. Its Beatmaker Kit features the Lightblock, a beautiful, wireless digital controller that's so flexible to play that, with the right instrument, it almost feels organic and analog.
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Music gear maker Boss has announced a new effects pedal that puts a massive 121 synth sounds at the feet for guitarists and bass players, without them needing to install special pickups or understand complex programming.
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Guitars are already pretty portable instruments. But those long necks can suffer more than a ding on long journeys, so various travel guitar designs have emerged. The latest is a premium design from Ciari Guitars that features a fold-over neck and hides a novel locking mechanism inside the body.
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Regular readers will be familiar with the retro wooden wonders of Love Hultén. Over the years, the Swedish designer has created wood-encased games consoles, computer replicas and music makers. His latest project is called the Evoboxx, a synthesizer based on the zero-player Game of Life from 1970.
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If you came of age in the 1980s, chances are pretty good that you loaded all of your favorite music onto a mixtape. Now you can break out your dusty tapes once more thanks to Nimm Lab, which has just injected a portable cassette player with Bluetooth.
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In 2013, David Packouz sampled some beats played by a top drummer and put realistic percussion at the feet of guitarists. That drummer-in-a-pedal got a baby brother a couple of years later, and now Singular Sound is aiming to shake up the looper space with the Aeros Loop Studio.
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Modular systems let guitarists switch components in and out as they please, but most are still made using wood. Luthier Boaz Elkayam has opted to make his modular guitar in plastic for durability, and it can be set up in 50 different ways.
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Many of Prince's choice guitars perfectly reflected his flamboyant stage presence, but arguably his most famous is the curvy Cloud Guitar. And now you can play one of your very own courtesy of Schecter and the official Prince store.
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Best known as Pink Floyd's guitar virtuoso, Dave Gilmour auctioned his guitar collection and gave the proceeds to a good cause. Gilmour's immense contribution to combating climate change, resulted in numerous smashed auction records along the way.
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The neck on many guitars today is made up of some wood topped by some more wood that has strips of metal inserted along it. The Subfretboard takes a different approach, laying a long metal plate on top of the neck, which has frets standing to attention along it that are filled in with blocks of wood
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