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Loopcloud's Flip Sample feature transforms any sample from its library with a single click

The sample platform says the new tool "bridges the gap between browsing and producing", allowing users to slice, sequence, ...
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“I didn’t feel the compassion, let’s put it that way”: Al Jardine criticises Mike Love’s speech at Brian Wilson’s funeral

Al Jardine and Mike Love both gave speeches honouring Wilson, their late bandmate and visionary songwriter. But Jardine has ...
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Beatles Anthology compilations, documentary and book all restored, revamped, repackaged and reissued this autumn

Meanwhile, The Beatles Anthology documentary, originally an eight-part series shown on Sunday evenings in late 1995, has been restored by the Apple Corps production team, together with Peter Jackson.
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“When Bowie lived with me, he kept pushing me, saying, 'You’ve gotta keep changing. You can’t keep repeating yourself’”: The legendary rock singer whose band stopped ...

“The people I really admired, like my good friend David Bowie, always changed,” Hughes says. “And that’s the way it’s always been for me. “When Bowie lived with me, he kept pushing me, saying, 'You’ve ...
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“Each guitar includes a 40th-anniversary certificate hand-signed by Paul Reed Smith”: PRS swaps maple for mango to give its flagship Custom 24 an eye-popping satin nitro ...

PRS Guitars has spec’d up another immaculate high-end electric guitar to celebrate its 40th anniversary, refreshing its Custom 24 in a satin nitro finish with an eye-popping mango top and some cool ...
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“Thom sat down and played it in three takes, then just burst into tears afterwards”: How Jeff Buckley saved Radiohead’s Fake Plastic Trees

It was the song Thom Yorke just couldn't get right, but a stellar Jeff Buckley gig unlocked the missing ingredient ...
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“This has been through thick and thin… one of our crew fell on a stair, the whole neck snapped right off”: Swedish heavyweights Orbit Culture show us their ESP guitars ...

Richard Hansson and Niklas Karlsson on why passive humbuckers are better for downtuned riffs, James Hetfield's influence, and why baritones and extended range guitars are too much guitar ...
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"It is not a polite instrument – nor is it clean, safe, or obvious": Cherry Audio revives the cult classic Crumar Spirit in its latest plugin

Cherry Audio is renowned for its well-reviewed software recreations of vintage synthesizers, having captured the spirit of legendary names such as the Roland Juno-106, ARP 2600 and Prophet-10 in ...
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“They all thought it was a bonkers idea but it worked. It was already a great song, but that one little thing made it different”: How the Eagles made somebody else’s song ...

In the 2011 BBC documentary Hotel California: LA From The Byrds To The Eagles, David Crosby described the West Coast music industry of the time as being like a pool of sharks. And as Crosby succinctly ...
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"This can't be serious": Billboard reveals the top producers of the 21st century so far – and people aren't happy

Max Martin unsurprisingly snags the top spot, but the absence of greats such as Pharrell Williams – and the inclusion of ...
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“It’s disorienting, impractical and slightly dystopian – but it's like nothing I’ve ever done before”: I tried making music in VR and I’m never going back

I’ve been exploring VR music-making for the last eighteen months, and I want to share what I’ve learned - this is my purely personal take. But before embarking on their journe ...
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“After five minutes, I was like, can I just go back to the dressing room? My legs had turned to jelly”: Noel Gallagher on 'grossly underestimating' the band's tour, the gig ...

“I’ve done stadiums before and all that, but I don’t mind telling you, my legs had turned to jelly after about halfway through the second song.” Want all the hottest music and gear news, reviews, ...