Soma Laboratory has built a new instrument called Dvina that's inspired by the sounds of classical Hindu music. Vibrations from the strings are picked up by a powerful magnet buried inside the wooden neck, the signal boosted and modulated and then output through an amplifier.
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Keyboard players rarely get to the front of the stage. If only they had an instrument they could strap on like a guitar... There is of course just such a keyboard, but the keytar hasn't really caught on. Yamaha is hoping that will change with the launch of the Sonogenic SHS-500.
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String pickers on the road often can't take their guitars of choice of their travels – due to size or safety concerns – so might carry or more portable flavor to help keep calluses from going soft. But what if you played a double bass? That's where the TravelBass comes into its own.
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Earlier this month we had a look at some of the music gear highpoints of 2018. Though this showed that hardware and software innovation continues apace, there's nothing like a taste of oddness to serve as a reminder that gear makers can still think way outside of the box.
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The last year has seen iconic brand Gibson collapse and be reborn, Fender experiment with hybrid guitar forms, and Moog release its first analog polysynth in decades. It's been a rollercoaster of highs and lows, but we're focusing on the positive for a look back at music gear highlights in 2018.
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Modal Electronics launched an interesting monophonic synthesizer two years ago called the CRAFTsynth, followed by a polyphonic synth earlier this year. Now the company has gone monophonic again for the CRAFTsynth 2.0 wavetable synthesizer.
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Music hardware maker Alesis has announced a new multi-tool for solo beatmakers, producers and kit-packing drummers. As well as performing electronic percussion duties, the Strike MultiPad can sample, edit and loop sounds and be used as an audio interface.
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Pipes from the Synesthesia Corporation essentially merges computer hardware and production software for an all-in-one music creation machine that's said to start a whole new music creation product category.
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A few years ago, designers from Yamaha Corp and Yamaha Motor switched for a while. For the company's &Y project, engineers from both have collaborated on concept models, the latest being a music device made of vehicle parts.
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Astronomers have snapped the first confirmed image of a planet still in the process of forming. The newborn, named PDS 70b, was spotted by the ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) as a bright splotch in the cloud of dust surrounding a young star.
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