Blipblox After Dark – a Synthesizer for Kids

You can never start too early with educating little toddlers about saw waveforms and filter cutoffs. The Blipblox is a fun way for children 3 and up to get familiar with music making. It looks and feels like a toy, but the Blipblox After Dark is actually a very capable synthesizer and sound generator for the package ...

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SOMI-1 Turn Movement Into Music

If you ever wish the music would respond to your movement instead of the other way around, the new SOMI-1 by Instruments of Things is a nice new controller to put your money towards. While certainly not the first motion controller for music, this Kickstarter project looks to be more mature than its predecessors, ...

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David Bowie Stylophone

The Stylophone turned famous with the use in Bowie's classic Space Oddity track. If you didn't know yet, a Stylophone is a tiny and cheap pocket synthesizer that you can play with a stylus. To commemorate David Bowie's musical legacy, creator Dubreq has released a limited edition David Bowie version of their loved ...

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8 Key Mini Kalimba

One instrument that can never sound annoying to me is a Kalimba, also known as thumb piano. No matter how hard you randomly play those keys, it'll always sound soft and zen. If you want to have those soothing sounds wherever you go, this mini Kalimba is a pocket-friendly gift. While you don't get the full range of a ...

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The Most Fun Music Gadgets for Musicians in 2021

When you need a gift for a musician there are a lot of fun and quirky music gadgets to choose from. Tech has advanced in a way where you can stick a synthesizer or small groovebox in your pocket and make near-full songs or perform for a crowd while you're out and about. It can be intimidating to pick something from ...

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Populele 2 Pro – An Interactive Way to Learn to Play Ukulele

When you're intimated by those professional ukulele players on YouTube, the Populele 2 Pro Smart Ukulele has got you covered. This is a special ukulele that's designed to teach you your favorite songs on the ukulele in no time. Special features such as the light-up fretboard tell you the required finger positions, so ...

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Kanye’s Donda Stem Player

To go with his new album release Kanye West released a special gadget for musicians called the Stem Player. This allows you to break his album's tracks down into separate stems, so that you're able to isolate drums, vocals, bass or samples. Next to doing this with Kanye's latest album, that ships with this device, ...

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Shure MV7 – the Best Podcast Microphone in 2021

The Shure MV7 is a modernized take on one of the most popular broadcasting mics of all time, the Shure SM7B. It has a distinct shape that you have likely seen with popular YouTubers and on radio broadcasts. If you want to take your podcasting game to the next level, this microphone will make any vocal sit front ...

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Arturia Microfreak Vocoder Edition

I was eyeballing the original Arturia Microfreak synthesizer for a while. For three hundred dollars it's a pretty unique and fun little synthesizer. Now, Arturia released a Vocoder edition of their succesful Microfreak. This means you can have crazy synthesis and modulate your voice a la Daft Punk on top of it. ...

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Boss RC-505, the Greatest Audio Looper

For looping and overdubbing audio there are plenty of choices available. Even your iPad can do a good amount of audio looping with apps such as Loopy and Looperverse. However, performing artists often turn to the Boss RC-505 Loop Station as a reliable piece of hardware that can do it all. It's easy to see why... ...

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Loog Mini – the Best Guitar for Kids

When trying to teach how to play guitar there isn't much between the real thing and a flimsy toy guitar. The Loog guitars are the perfect choice for kids that want to learn how to play and have a capable guitar for teaching you all the basics. The companion Loog guitar app is essential in letting kids stick to ...

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Nanoloop Handheld Synthesizer

There's something about holding a gamepad that just makes everything more fun. The new Nanoloop synthesizer that's launching on Kickstarter is one such example that gamifies music making. This is a portable sequencer and synth that provides a very immediate way to create bleeps and bloops, similar to the Pocket ...

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