If you're a guitarist, changing the tuning of your instrument is as easy as twisting the machine heads at the end, but pianists are restricted to the static 88 notes that they're given.
Review of Native Instruments The Finger 
The humble MIDI keyboard doesn't get much love in this world of pads, knobs, and touchscreens.
8 great entry-level recording apps 
Entering into the world of computer-based recording is neither as expensive or as difficult as it used to be.
Getting to Grips with Digital Delay 
Sometimes it is good to go back to basics, and I thought it would be helpful if I were to cover the essential building blocks of music production.
FabFilter updates Pro-Q to v1.01 
This update features the features important bug fixes and improvements.
Cycling '74 updates Max/MSP/Jitter to v5.1 (includes support for Max for Live) 
Cycling '74 has updated Max/MSP/Jitter to v5.1. This includes support for Max for Live.
Teaching Chords To Beginning Guitar Students 
A very common and frustrating problem beginning guitar students face is not being able to change chords quickly, fluently and musically.
Acoustic Guitar Magazine celebrates 20 Years 
Acoustic Guitar has announced that their upcoming February 2010 issue will mark 20 years in publication.
Create Your Dream PRS Guitar 
Only at Sweetwater — two days only! You have the unprecedented opportunity to design your personal PRS Private Stock guitar, with help from Paul Smith himself.
Win a Mick Thomson from SlipKnot signature Ibanez guitar 
Seymour Duncan have just released the new Mick Thomson signature Blackout pickups called the Blackouts EMTY and they are giving you a chance to not only win a set of these pickups but to win a sign...
Morley announce 4 new pedals 
Thank you to Guitarist magazine for the heads up on this one, apparently Morley are introducing 4, yes 4 new pedals including the updated George Lynch Signature Dragon Wah 2 which is a:
Demo: Mad Professor Mighty Red Distortion 
MRD is a high-gain distortion pedal, which was modelled after the 80’s style compressed gain sounds.
Review of Carvin TL60 
The faithful old Telecaster design has been around since 1948, and in that time it’s been through a few reinterpretations – psychedelic rock axe, country twanger, indie standby, balladeer’s a...
20% discounts on Ableton Live 8 & suite 8 
Ableton are offering 20% discounts on Ableton Live 8, suite 8 and upgrades to both packages...
Max for Live availible now 
Ableton's Max for Live was released today. We take a look at pricing and what comes with Max for Live
Fingerstyle Guitar Lessons 
Learn how to play guitar fingerstyle. This series of free guitar lessons takes you from the very beginning steps to some serious fingerstyle guitar.
How to Use Selective Track Import in Logic Pro 9 
Logic Pro 9 introduced Selective Track Import, a feature that gives you the ability to import entire tracks from your other projects — or just the audio, or just the settings on the track.
Hinton Instruments introduces SwitchMix 
Hinton Instruments has introduced their latest product – the SwitchMix.
Brace Audio DWG1000-TX now shipping 
Brace Audio has announced the shipping of the DWG1000-TX Digital Wireless Guitar System.
Open Labs introduces Soundslate 
Introducing Open Labs' SoundSlate, the ultimate virtual instrument player and hardware DAW for your keyboard workstation or MIDI controller, contained in a sexy 1U rackmountable case.
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