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Working with Kacey Musgraves catapulted Ian Fitchuk from respected producer to one of Nashville’s busiest songwriters.
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Working with Kacey Musgraves catapulted Ian Fitchuk from respected producer to one of Nashville’s busiest songwriters.

Virtuoso pianist Rogét Chahayed has found a unique niche as a classically trained hip‑hop producer.

Piano lessons from seven years of age and pipe organ fascination from the age of nine began a passion for keyboards. Now, aged 82, I love my keyboards.

Tom Rhea’s colourful, comprehensive and insightful history of electrical and electronic music machines includes CDs with audio examples.


Elektron’s updated FM groovebox is a powerhouse.

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Emergence Audio apply their Infinite Motion Engine and Non‑Static Sampling technology to another member of the woodwind family in their latest release.

Soyuz’s latest pencil mic is as easy on the ear as it is on the eye!

V‑Rack packs the Rhodes MK8 preamp and effects section into a plug‑in.

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 4/5 Stars. Capturing the sound of her personal Yamaha CP‑70 electric grand piano, Alicia's Electric Keys aims to cover "a vast range of tones that blend classic electric pianos with flexible modern soundscapes".

Live 12’s new Tunings system is your invitation to explore alternative tunings and microtones.

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Dreamtonics add a further voice database expansion to their voice generator software.

With polyphonic aftertouch, MPE and MIDI 2.0, Korg’s Keystage has a lot to offer.

Brothers Sebastian and Daniel Selke and Kyoto‑born Midori Hirano are Berlin‑based producers and artists who have come together to produce a collaborative album called Split Scale.

Love it or hate it, pitch‑correction is here to stay — but there can be way more to it than fixing performance issues.

The Vector is a digital sequencer with eight parts assignable as quantised mono or chord tracks, or four‑lane drum tracks.

Divisimate 2 brings a host of improvements and new features to Nextmidi’s orchestration software.

Yamaha’s FGDP‑50 drum pad is designed explicitly for the digital percussionist.

Novation’s updated Launchkey range introduces improved creative features and better DAW integration.

Biverb is a dual reverb plug‑in that supports all the usual plug‑in formats on macOS and Windows platforms.