Music

After showing off a pre-production prototype at NAMM 2019, Waldorf Music has announced the availability of the Kyra virtual analog (VA) synthesizer.

The THR desktop amps were already pretty good, but they didn't have any wireless capabilities. Yamaha has now put that right with the THR-II range.

About four years ago two friends looked at the range of travel guitars available and, not seeing anything suitable, decided to make their own.

Nearly 50 years after the Moog 10 compact modular synthesizer went into production, new models that are faithful to the originals are being reborn.

Roland's Aerophone mini digital wind instrument makes learning easy by eliminating complicated fingerings and difficult breathing control.

The upcoming Wristruments app puts guitar tuition within reach, serves up a metronome, instructor, song library, and tuner on a smartwatch.

Loog Guitars has kicked off a crowdfunding campaign to fund three learning guitars for kids with a built-in amp and speaker.

Grand pianos are huge and heavy, and not everyone has space in the home to host one. Upright pianos can help, but the sound just isn't the same. But what if you can have a grand piano that has about the same footprint as an upright?. That's what Sarah Nicolls is offering with the Standing Grand.

In order to help prevent a guitar's neck losing the fight against the pull of the strings, a metal rod usually runs through it. Rubato Guitars has done away with the truss rod for it first model – named Lassie – instead relying on the stiffness of carbon fiber to keep things nice and straight.

​Cardboard is generally used as packaging, to house new instruments during transit for example. But we've seen a number of gear innovations actually built using cardboard over the years, and the latest to join the cardboard band is the Beatbox, a MIDI drum machine built into cardboard housing.​

Sennheiser fans can stop holding their breath. The iconic German brand has finally produced an audiophile-quality set of in-ear, Bluetooth headphones. Based on the IE 80S wired model, the new IE 80S BT promises hi-res audio and a breathtaking soundstage.

The Goldtop 1957 Gibson Les Paul​ guitar which Duane Allman used to record "Layla" alongside Eric Clapton, has sold for US$1.25 million at auction, becoming only the seventh guitar in history to sell for more than US$1,000,000.