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“It’s the only delay that can make those OK Computer sounds”: Ed O’Brien explains why one BOSS pedal was integral to Radiohead’s landmark ’90s albums

The Bends and OK Computer wouldn’t sound the same without the BOSS DD-5 – and Radiohead’s resident effects expert is already eyeing up some newly launched delays for the band’s next outing

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How BOSS became one of the world's biggest guitar amp companies in under a decade

BOSS’s status as an effects heavyweight is set in stone – but lesser-known is how the visionary company reached the summit of the amp sector in under a decade

Guitar World

"It sounds like a drum machine instead of a machine playing drums - a sore disappointment": What critics said about the iconic Roland TR-909 drum machine on its release (and how they actually helped define dance music today)

Best of 2023: If they hadn't panned the 909, you might now be dancing to a very different beat…

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Yamaha CK Series keyboards review

What do you get if you cross a stage piano with a portable keyboard, organ and synth? Something like this…

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YouTuber Alex Ball gets his hands on Tony Banks’ old Roland JD-800 synth and finds that it still contains his Genesis tour patches from the ‘90s

Best of 2023: A Banks preset bank, you might say

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Why should keyboard players have all the fun? A history of BOSS guitar synths

Your guitar isn’t limited solely to traditional sounds. Roland and BOSS have been at the forefront of guitar-based synthesis for decades – and they’re showing no signs of stopping

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LCD Soundsystem's Tyler Pope: "James said I should make an EP only using one drum machine and a synth – so I got hold of an old-school Roland CR-78 and an ARP Odyssey"

Best of 2023: The LCD Soundsystem bassist goes solo with a sizzlingly funky electro-punk blend. Danny Turner finds a man on an analogue mission

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"The way that Control sounds is an accident because we didn’t know what we were doing": why Jam and Lewis recorded Janet Jackson’s breakthrough album ‘wrong’, and why it’s all Prince’s fault

Best of 2023: Because learning from the best beats reading manual, every time

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“There’s no player of my generation who doesn’t remember when they first heard that almost one-second delayed repeat. It was truly epic”: How BOSS's trailblazing delay pedals changed the world

History repeating: BOSS’s delay pedals changed everything – now the modern range salutes the Japanese firm’s storied past while forging ahead with bold new creations

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Israel-Premier Tech drops support of Roland Cycling women's team

'Intention of returning to the women's peloton' says former co-title sponsor in social post

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“We can create sound with more freedom, while maintaining the original quality”: What is BOSS Waza Craft? The Japanese effects giant’s boutique range explained

If classic tones with custom voicings and enhanced functionality is what you’re after, in a package that’s built to the highest possible quality, Waza Craft is for you

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“Before BOSS, there just wasn’t a wide enough selection of pedals. They kicked it into high gear, eclipsed everything else…” How one innovative company changed the soundscape of modern music in five decades

The inside story of how BOSS revolutionized effects. The milestones that led the Japanese firm to the cutting edge of the modern music scene

Guitar World

Fantastic Twins on creating imaginary characters with vocal effects and the Eventide H3500: "The machine is basically endless, especially when it comes to working with vocals"

Based on her schizoid Fantastic Twins persona, Danny Turner delves deep into Julienne Dessagne’s eerie debut album, Two Is Not a Number

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What’s the biggest selling electronic music gear of 2023, we hear you ask? Reverb has the answer and it might not surprise you…

Teenage Engineering dominates, with the OP-1 topping the overall and used charts once again

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The bad, the good and the ugly: How AudioPilz's meme-fuelled Bad Gear became YouTube's funniest music tech series

Florian Pilz joins us to talk about his rise to YouTube stardom and pick out five of his baddest bits of "bad gear"

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AG Insurance and Ceratizit-WNT snag Women's WorldTour licences for 2024

UCI confirms 15 women's teams for top tier of racing across next two years

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D16 Drumazon 2 review

16 years after the original came out, version 2 is here. But do we really need yet another 909 drum machine emulator?

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It's game on for Roland and its all new Ice White Edition Bridge Cast

It's got gamers in mind, but you can add your own music, too

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4 of the best new drum machines and grooveboxes in 2023

Roland's innovative, sequencer-focused SH-4d takes the crown this year, but who came runner up?

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7 of the best new hardware synths in 2023

In a year dominated by vintage hardware throwbacks and modern innovations, we crown the UDO Super Gemini as 2023's best new synth

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"This might not be such a good idea after all" : A YouTuber tries to recreate classic $200 ReBirth software with $15,000 worth of original vintage Roland hardware

Yes, he really is using using vintage hardware to emulate software that emulated the vintage hardware.

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"To say its arrival was earth-shaking would be no exaggeration": why, 40 years on, the Yamaha DX7 was the most important release in synth history, even though it did "make your head dribble"

And why 'important' doesn't always mean 'best'…

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How to get the perfect 808s: 8 tips to help you achieve weighty 808 kicks

Whether used as a kick or bass, get perfect 808s every time with our essential guide…

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The definitive guide to producing techno in 2023

Sara Simms digs deep into the workings of this essential genre and shows you how to craft club-ready future techno classics

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