That’s a cool story about Neil Finn.

I’ve actually seen most of the 7WC artists, but I still think it would be cool to see them as a collective.

I did actually see Page and Plant at Red Rocks in 1998 and it was amazing.

In terms of dead artists, obviously Beatles, Zep, Brian Jones era Stones, Bon Scott era AC/DC,  The Who, and a host of others.  Crowded House with the Woodface lineup.

But if we exclude necromancy and medical miracles (ie the health issues keeping artists such as Phil Collins and Linda Ronstadt out of the game aren’t going away), then who?

I w…Read More

I could list so many Pomplamoose covers…

Harder, Better Faster, Stronger is one to check out, and their cover of Don’t Start Now leaves Dua Lipa in the dust.

My favorite though is Bulletproof.  I had never heard the LaRoux original and when I did, I was just like “this is a song?”

As far as their mashups,…Read More

There are a few problems with the RRHOF.

First is that it ceased being Rock and Roll and has made itself about popular music.

Second, and more importantly, they induct seven artists a year.   Because even if you do expand the categories to include all of popular music, you are going to run out of legends to induct and end up with a pretty m…Read More

Also, concurrent with the FX 6 release, they have updated all of their other FX.

The main thing is a new preset browsing system along with new presets, along with some fixes for Logic and Reaper.

On February 19, 2026 at 2:34 pm ttpenguins said
Upgrade from collection 5 to pro 6 while owning none of the newer FX products is showing as $69 for me (I have the V collection 11 but do not think that matters…)

I think it does as I’ve seen others with FX 5 but nothing else saying their update is $99.

I have FX 5 and V 11 and Pigments, and it w…Read More

$299 seems a bit stiff for just the Fender amps.

I was holding out for the next Komplete as well.

It seems that DJ who wears a mouse helmet on stage posted on Twitter that he was talking to the insolvency team to try to get control of Traktor and other assets.

The other one nobody has mentioned that I want to stay as far away from NI is Music Tribe, for the obvious reason that it is run by Uli Behringer.

A few novel delays are coming out.

Ibanez LD-303 Layer Delayer, good for patterned rhythmic delay

Beetronix Pollinator Hazee Delay

Mentha Monk Echo.  Good for atmospheric delays and can even do a Delay Lama imitation.

Boss just released the GX-1 for $225.  It’s the most budget pedal they have in the GX line with 8 usable effects at a time including modeling, etc.

40 years ago that money would have gotten you a Boss delay pedal and a Morley wah/volume pedal and a power supply.

On January 14, 2026 at 1:28 am peter said
This video covers the amp modeler included with Fender Studio Pro.

LinkedMusicians Founder. Your friend who keeps the beat.

Check out my music.

I think this guy does a pretty good job of making this thing sound better than my results.

I’m not really in love with the amps here for the most part. …Read More

I don’t think you are going to get a lot of answers because there are probably not a lot of people who have Analog Pro and don’t have either Pigments or the full collection.  And for this you need someone who has just Analog Pro, because if you have any other Arturia product, there is no way of sorting the factory presets for those products vs…Read More

On January 13, 2026 at 6:17 pm psionx said
Did you guys check the 3rd party plugins they are giving this time? 🙂

That HitVerb could be nice.  A couple of Eventide plugins isn’t a bad thing.  A couple from Newfangled Audio and a couple from UJam.   I hear good things about the Safari Pedals effects, although it would be nice if they integrated wit…Read More

I’m a bit annoyed because I just registered my copy of v7 last week and I don’t see an update in my account.  Meanwhile some people on KVR report that they have received the upgrade despite their update periods having expired in November.

This library is not one for everyone.  The key point is that these are mostly children’s keyboards and not the classics like the Polivoks or Aelita.  Still, as the preset walkthrough shows, they managed to get some interesting sounds from the obviously limited source material.

The developer has another product called “Pripyat Pianos” in which t…Read More

If you want to purchase a bundle from Melda, they will credit you a portion of what you paid for any products contained in that bundle, which will bring down the prices.  If you time it right you can get the bundle price down to a bit lower.

Note that this is part of the MCreativeFX bundle.

Still waiting on my S/N.

I’m voting for Manfredd Mann, because anyone who can get away with playing Chopsticks while covering Bruce Springsteen must be a badass.  Although he did a pretty good job on “For You”.

Emerson and Wakeman are of course obvious choices.  Of course all the other Yes keyboard players were pretty damn good.

Nicky Hopkins

Billy Preston

Elton J…Read More

On December 19, 2025 at 7:31 am pseudopop said
There’s something funky about today’s offers:

Funkmasters EZX €29
Funk EZkeys MIDI €9
Modern Funk EZkeys MIDI €9
Modern Funk Grooves €9

Funk without Bass?

This is killing their servers right now.  I can’t even login.

It’s now showing $9.99 for me.

I’m surprised they are still selling SynthMaster One as SynthMaster 3 includes all of its functionality.