Is the bigger brother of the Allen & Heath Qu-16 just what you're after in a digital mixing console? We got a quick run-down on the new live sound desk at the Winter NAMM show.

Novation is celebrating its heritage with a short film that explores the company's past, present, and future. It's also offering a completely free sample pack comprising over 800MB, and running a competition to win a synth.

Fender's Passport Studio is designed for today's mobile-minded music professionals and puts two Focal-designed monitors into a travel-ready enclosure.

From the creative team behind the successful Stutter Edit real-time beat manipulation tool, comes BreakTweaker, an unusual drum machine and beat sequencing instrument.

QSC, otherwise known for their power amps and loudspeakers, have made their first foray into digital live sound mixers with the Touchmix series. Could they give Mackie a run for their money?

The SE5 from SE Electronics is the successor to the hugely popular SE4 small diaphragm condenser and does away with the interchangeable capsule in favour of a fixed cardioid pattern capsule.

We get a quick run-through of the new FA08 and FA06 workstation synths from Roland at teh Winter NAMM show earlier this week.

Elektron's new drum machine has some serious power under the hood with wave and sample playback across eight channels, and sports 12 playable drum pads. We got a closer look at the NAMM show.

The DGT650 from Lewitt is a stereo USB microphone and audio interface that supports ASIO on Windows, OS X Core Audio, and is also easily combined with mobile devices. 

We took a look at the new four-way monitors from Eve Audio, the SC407 and SC408, which are the largest in the SC range.