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ESP On Tour is back, bringing a series of exclusive in-store events to locations across Australia. This is your chance…
Australian electronic music artist Reductionist has unveiled Energy Field, a new two-track release through Clan Analogue created entirely using the…
Arturia has unveiled Rev OCEAN, a new reverb plugin designed to turn everyday sounds into vast, evolving sonic landscapes. Built…
Teenage Engineering has delivered substantial new firmware for its EP sampler family, with OS 2.5 arriving for the EP–133 K.O.…
Following the recent announcement of AIAIAI’s partnership with Björk’s immersive Echolalia exhibition, the Danish audio brand has unveiled a new…
Arturia has unveiled the MiniLab 37, a new 37-key version of its hugely popular MIDI controller series. Building on more…
AIAIAI has been announced as the exclusive headphone partner for Björk’s ambitious new immersive exhibition, Echolalia, a multi-year collaboration that…
Ableton has announced the public beta of its new Extensions SDK, an experimental toolkit that allows developers and curious creators…
Universal Audio’s new Topline Vocal Tune brings the company’s vocal pitch correction technology into a dedicated plugin, offering real-time tuning,…
The original prototype for the Ableton Push, famously built from LEGO, hacked-together hardware parts and sheer determination, has officially found…
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TUTORIALS
With the arrival of the Roland TR-1000, analog drum machines are firmly back in the spotlight – but the real story lies in the sheer variety of instruments available today,…
The Polyend Tracker Plus takes one of electronic music’s most distinctive production methods and wraps it into a modern standalone instrument, complete with sampling, sequencing, synth engines and full song…
Not every studio upgrade comes in the form of a new synthesizer or guitar. Sometimes the most transformative pieces of gear are the ones that quietly solve very specific problems…
With the release of the new Teenage Engineering EP40, the EP Grid lineup continues to evolve – and it feels like the perfect time to dig into what really makes…
FREE STUFF
Arturia has announced AstroLab 2.0, a substantial update for its performance-focused keyboard range that brings deeper sound editing directly to the hardware, adds…
Arturia has opened up its flagship software synth with Pigments Play, a new free instrument built on the same sound engine as Pigments.…
Arturia has released MiniFreak firmware 5.0, a free update that opens the hybrid synth up to user samples and custom wavetables. Users can…
The latest 1.7 OS update for the Teenage Engineering OP–1 Field quietly expands the instrument’s creative range by refining tape behaviour, expanding MIDI…
A new firmware update for the Melbourne Instruments NINA brings the full Mutable Instruments Braids macro oscillator engine into its analog architecture —…
A big thank you to everyone who entered the Master Of Selfies competition, over 300 entries really showed the love for Metallica and…
YOU MAY HAVE MISSED
It felt like we hardly finished the video on the new UAFX Max, Galaxy and Del-Verb pedals when we at Noisegate got word that there were some new new UAFX pedals for us to check out! Like many others, a new release from Universal Audio always piques our interest so it is with great pleasure that we present this sneak peak…
More often than not there comes a time in every electronic music studio where software sequencers and DAWs offer so much that it can sometimes drain one’s creative flow. That’s where a hardware step sequencer can help. Moving away from a screen and physically interacting with a hardware sequencer can be very rewarding both in the studio and performing. These days,…
Our long-awaited drum machine review part two is here! As we alluded to back in part one, it’s pretty interesting to know that the humble programmable drum machine has only been around for little over 40 years. We truly are spoilt for choice when it comes to beat-making machines, and that’s not including the plethora of software emulators or samplers! There…
Here at Noisegate we usually concern ourselves with creating content such as reviews, tutorials and first looks at fresh new products. As much as we enjoy creating this kind of content sometimes we yearn for something that is a bit more action-packed. We put together a crack team of investigative journalists and performed a real-world field test on JBL’s EON712 PA…
Effects pedals that utilise DSP (digital signal processor) chips are nothing new, but their power in the last 2 decades has significantly increased and we’ve seen a number of guitar pedal builders start to actually mention specific DSP chips in their specs. But what’s it all mean? Why does it matter? I’ve been wondering the same lately, so I took a…
With the recent arrival of the new JBL EON ONE Compact and hype surrounding this portable battery-powered PA, we thought it prudent to check out what else is out there in portable battery-powered PA land. We’re sure most will be familiar with the Bose S1 Pro System, which has somewhat set the bar in this style and form factor of portable…
