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Fifty years after Don Buchla first released his portable electronic music studio, is the world finally ready for the Music Easel?

Digital mixing might be all the rage, but sometimes a simple analogue desk is exactly what you need.

American‑born producer, engineer and mixer Dave Sardy has worked with household names including Bush, Johnny Cash, Oasis and The Who. A favourite sound from his impressive discography is the guitar drone on ‘(Get Off Your) High Horse Lady’ from Oasis’ 2008 album Dig Out Your Soul.

Digital modelling has become so powerful that you might think there wasn’t much mileage left in the idea of analogue emulation. If you can accurately mimic some piece of vintage gear in a few lines of code, why bother developing and building complex analogue circuits to do the same thing?

Built entirely from percussion sounds, but not for percussion, Dream Kit: Zenith is a synth like no other.

Strymon’s Cloudburst pedal won a lot of friends amongst those fans of ambient, shoegaze and cinematic‑style composing. Now it’s available as a plug‑in, which should make life a lot easier for many of them!

This is Not Rocket Science (TiNRS) thought it might be nice to create a space, within space, where cosmic entities exist as the elements of a deep galactic reverb.

Edd Butterworth and Jean‑Marcel Fricke are the joint helmsmen of the recently opened SchneidersKeller (an offshoot of Berlin’s venerable SchneidersLaden) situated on London's famous Denmark Street.

With ARA2 compatibility, this clever software slots right into your DAW workflow and promises to take much of the pain and time out of getting your vocals mix-ready.