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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.

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Native Instruments Launches Vertikal – A New Kontakt 8 Piano Instrument

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From @synthandsoftware - Vertikal is a new Kontakt 8 piano instrument built around Nils Frahm’s own vertical concert grand and recorded in his Saal 3 studio at Funkhaus Berlin.

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