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GO GO GADGET SWITCH If you’ve been looking for a reason to justify buying yourself a Nintendo Switch, the news that Korg’s Gadget is being released for the console in 2018 might just give it to you. There’s now absolutely no reason not to get one.

KIND OF BLUE (PLANET) If you’ve been enjoying the BBC’s Blue Planet II, you’ll be pleased to know that you can now get access to many of the sounds used in the series via Spitfire Audio’s Orchestra Swarm library. All you need now is a David Attenborough plugin.

MORE FOUR LESS We enjoyed the photo that Four Tet tweeted recently showing “all the gear” he used to record and mix his latest album. His ‘studio’ comprises nothing more than a laptop, monitors, an audio interface and a MIDI controller, proving that bigger isn’t always better.

GEAR N.E.R.D. ROLI have secured quite a coup by signing up Pharrell Williams as their chief creative officer, but is he really going to be doing a 35-hour week in the office? We suspect he might have been given permission to ‘work from home’ for some of the time…

LOVE MAN He’s used Puff Daddy, P Diddy and other titles, but now the man whose real name is Sean Combs has announced that he’s called Love (or Brother Love, if you want). Not only does it seem like a bit of an odd monicker, but it’s not really that great for SEO.

KEEP IT SHORT There might be some people who are pleased about Twitter increasing their character limit to 280 per Tweet, but for us it might just feel like more words to distract us on our feeds while we’re trying to make music. Isn’t brevity meant to be the soul of wit, anyway??