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Ernie Ball Podcast: Striking A Chord with Synyster Gates
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Ernie Ball Podcast: Striking A Chord with Synyster Gates

In this episode of Striking A Chord, Ernie Ball sat down with legendary guitarist and long-time Ernie Ball friend, Steve Morse. Known for his intricate compositions, innovative techniques, and versatility across musical genres, Steve Morse is widely known as the "guitarists' guitarist." Morse has provided his technical prowess to groups including Dixie Dregs and Deep Purple, while also appearing on over 200 albums to date.

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Ernie Ball Podcast: Striking A Chord with Steve Morse
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Ernie Ball Podcast: Striking A Chord with Steve Morse

In this episode of Striking A Chord, Ernie Ball sat down with legendary guitarist and long-time Ernie Ball friend, Steve Morse. Known for his intricate compositions, innovative techniques, and versatility across musical genres, Steve Morse is widely known as the "guitarists' guitarist." Morse has provided his technical prowess to groups including Dixie Dregs and Deep Purple, while also appearing on over 200 albums to date.

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Ernie Ball Music Man introduces the Mariposa guitar!
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Ernie Ball Music Man introduces the Mariposa guitar!

The Ernie Ball Music Man Mariposa guitar is the latest design collaboration between the award-winning Ernie Ball Music Man design team and celebrated Mars Volta/At the Drive-in composer/guitarist Omar Rodriquez-Lopez.

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Ernie Ball Podcast: Striking A Chord with Jason Richardson
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Ernie Ball Podcast: Striking A Chord with Jason Richardson

In this episode of Striking A Chord, Ernie Ball sat down with multi-instrumentalist and composer, Jason Richardson. Jason is known for his near-supersonic, highly technical playing style, and his guitar leads for bands All That Remains, Chelsea Grin, and Born of Osiris.

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Novation Summit: two-part 16-voice 61-key polyphonic synthesiser
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Novation Summit: two-part 16-voice 61-key polyphonic synthesiser

Summit’s digital New Oxford Oscillators offer subtractive, FM and wavetable synthesis, and feed into genuine analogue dual filters, distortion and VCAs. The multitimbral engine enables merging and combining of two complete and independent patches, while up to 16 simultaneous voices deliver enough harmonic depth for even the richest of pads.

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Novation introduces the new Launchkey Mini: Made to move!
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Novation introduces the new Launchkey Mini: Made to move!

Ever since its debut in 2014, Launchkey Mini has set the pace as the leading portable MIDI keyboard controller for Ableton Live. With the latest version, Novation has strengthened that connection by adding a raft of empowering new features, including an onboard Arpeggiator and one-note chord triggering, transport and mixing controls, program change, Pitch and Modulation touch strips, and a MIDI Out jack.

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