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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The talkbox is a floor stomp with a long tube coming from it. The musician puts the free end of this tube in the mouth and alters the sound by changing the shape of the mouth or position of the tongue. ElectroSpit has made the talkbox mobile and tube-free with the ESX-1.
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Back in 2016, Line 6 claimed its Relay G10 was the easiest wireless guitar system to use. A year later, Boss joined in with its own plug and play system for the portable Katana Air amplifier. Now the Roland-owned music gear maker has launched a new line of wireless systems called the WL Series.
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On May 19, music lovers and collectors will get their chance to snag a treasure trove of memorabilia linked to rock and pop icons. Among many items of clothing, handwritten song lyrics and instruments once owned by rock's greatest stars is an gem of a find that's not been seen in public since 1965.
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IK Multimedia has unveiled the UNO Synth, its first hardware synthesizer. The monophonic synth is battery-powered for music creation on the go, invites novice sonic scientists with 100 ready-to-go presets and promises capable musicians an inexpensive "real analog synth with professional sound."
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