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The creative process is about serendipity, spontaneity, accident and chance. It’s about defying convention, standards and the dreaded ‘best practice’.

Synthesists have been asking manufacturers to build new analogue instruments for years — and now they’ve finally responded. But what took them so long? We round up some of the recent offerings.

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Vic Keary's latest design is a compressor that's also a mic preamp and an EQ — but not, apparently, a channel strip!

The cinematic supremo enlists the best of British in a grand percussive collaboration.

All the stands in this range are intended to decouple a speaker from the desk or studio furniture on which it sits. Where this model differs is in its size — 17 inches wide by nine inches deep, making it suitable for speakers with a larger footprint.

American company Retro Instruments offer this true variable-mu valve compressor in 500-series format.

Korg already have an enviable track record for making high-quality apps, but in Gadget they've made their most serious step yet towards full music production.

The improved AT2020 USB+ adds a headphones output to monitor what you recorded, and its bundled accessories include a conventional stand-mounting swivel clamp, a small tripod desk stand and a 10 foot USB cable.