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The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

More than three hundred sources, in sixteen languages: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

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Audio Damage Introduces Sandbender, A Four-Operator FM Synth With Wavefolding & MPE

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Audio Damage's new Sandbender synthesizer combines four-operator FM synthesis with wave shaping, wavefolding, extensive modulation, and a low-pass gate, offering a different approach to programming…

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