LA beat scene documentary, Black Friday deals, Cubase updated and details of a new analogue synth from Elektron.
Elektron unveils Analog Keys. The Swedish hardware developers’ latest product is a twist on the Analog Four synth, a four-voice flagship keyboard priced at £1,449. Shipping in early December. Full info here.
SoundCloud Explore launched. Even if we ignore that ill-judged April Fools prank, the SoundCloud community’s reaction to new features hasn’t always been positive over the last couple of years. The streaming service will be hoping the new Explore feature, which allows users to discover the site’s most popular tracks, will help redress the balance.
LA beat scene documentary. BANG! profiles Low End Theory, the weekly club night associated with the likes of Gaslamp Killer, Flying Lotus and Nosaj Thing. Check it out above.
Is Algorave the future of dance music? VICE explores the arcane world of algorithmic rave, in which artists eschew DAWs and CDJs in favour of live computer coding.
Steinberg announces Cubase 7.5. The upgrade introduces significant changes to a number of core instruments and adds a new TrackVersions feature for managing alternative versions of the same project. Oh, and there are new EDM construction kits too. Bonus. Check out the details here and in the video above.
Stimming gives away free drum samples. The Hamburg producer’s sample pack is designed for the Teenage Engineering OP-1, but you can easily chop the files up and load them into your favourite sampler.