Guitar MIDI controllers are usually giant disappointments. But Jamstik seems to have broken the code. The Studio MIDI Guitar has fast and accurate pitch detection, and even does an impressive job ...

We all want to be guitar heroes, but most of us have to settle for letting a MIDI board play our riffs using a MIDI controller. [Joris] thinks a MIDI controller should look like a cool instrument ...

The other stages are: the main stage, where rather established and well-known bands perform; the Gibson Guitar stage, reserved mostly for hardcore and punk bands; the Mini Midi stage for ...

The latest version of Ableton's popular Live software has lots of new tools for would-be music makers. A new synth and some MIDI creation tools should help the creativity flow.

China's largest outdoor rock festival the Midi Music Festival will become bigger and better than ever this year. Altogether, 90 bands and 57 individual musicians will perform at five stages at the ...

As the year draws to a close, we here at Guitar World like to take a moment to look back and reflect upon 12 months of guitar music that blazed trails and melted faces – and what a year it’s ...

The best guitar riffs of the 1990s are as recognizable today as they were decades ago. These five are some of the most memorable.

Throughout rock's history, there have been several songs defined by the musicianship, particularly guitarists and their guitar riffs.

A new free effects plugin from NUSofting makes sustained, bowed sounds from plucked, staccato sounds by freezing and delaying the input signal. As you can hear in the video above, this can turn a ...

“Solos come and go, riffs last forever,” Keith Richards declared on the Today show on BBC Radio 4. That’s fighting talk from the man they call the Human Riff. In the guitar-driven rock genre ...