Audiomodern Soundbox Review: The Kontakt Killer?

Upstart plugin developer Audiomodern is challenging the hegemony of Kontakt with its new sampler, Soundbox. Is Audiomodern Soundbox good enough to dethrone the Native Instruments mainstay?

Make Your Own Jungle FX

In this Synth Secrets, we’ll recreate some of the jungle’s most iconic and oft-used samples from scratch…

Stay At Prince’s Home In Minneapolis

The legendary stars’ home will soon be available for rent on Airbnb.…

Lacchesi: “Work Hard, Keep Your Head Down”

Ahead of his US tour, you can catch Lacchesi at Boiler Room Barcelona in October or at RSO, Berlin, next…

Hypnotic Techno Inspired by Phase Fatale’s ‘Love Is Destructive’

In this Beat Dissected, we’re making a hypnotic percussive heavy techno beat inspired by Berghain resident and BITE label…

Aslice: The Inevitable End But Does It Have To Be This Way?

We spoke with DVS1 at IMS in 2022 about his new company Aslice. Two years later, it announced it’s…

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Max for Live: Knob Studio

Knob Studio offers dynamic waveform manipulation and parameter mapping capabilities.

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The Secrets of Dance Music Production

The world-leading book on dance music production. Comes with samples too.

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Max for Live: Texture

Add texture simple to any sound. Simple an effective.

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The Producer’s Manual

Everything you need to take a mix, from initial recording to final master.

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Max for Live: Pulse Engine

A unique generative MIDI device from Manifest Audio.

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FinalFinal T-Shirt

A hilarious tribute to our never-ending battle with file naming chaos.

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Max For Live: Chance Engine

Add controlled yet random fluctuations to your most important parameters

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Max For Live: Mouth Play

Unconventional vocal shaping with a brass model or FM oscillator source

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Untz Untz Techno T-Shirt

Big back print techno inspired t-shirt.

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Max For Live: Travelogue

A Max for Live MIDI device creating a unique sonic journey with joyful surprises

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Boots ‘n’ Cats House T-Shirt

The sound of house music as a big back print now!

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Inside Information: Minimoog Poster

The ultimate studio wall poster for music fans.

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Underground Resistance: The Final Frontier Poster

Anti corporate, political, powerful and progressive the power house of Jeff Mills, Robert Hood and "Mad" Mike Banks needs little introduction.

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Acid House Love Blueprint Poster

A 303 map of dance music and rave culture. Perfect.

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Acid House T-Shirt

Long live acid house!

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Refraction – Elektron Sample Pack

Techno sounds for the Elektron Analog Rytm

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Prism – Digitone Sample Pack

Electronic sounds for the Elektron Digitone.

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Replicants – Elektron Analog Rytm Sample Pack

Electro sounds for the Elektron Analog Rytm. Free your spirit.

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Max For Live: The Spellbook

LFO inspired by sacred geometry, weaving nature's fabric into your projects

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Why Is SoundCloud Laying Off Staff?

As the legendary indie platform makes its first layoffs since 2017, what’s the driving force behind the decision?…

Percussion-Based Beat Dissected Inspired By Bonobo

Downtempo, leftfield, organica, electronica, fairy-light house? Whatever you want to call it we show you how to make percussion…

Behind The Pen: Annabel Ross On Being A Music Journalist

Annabel Ross is a freelance journalist whose writing is mainly focused on music and culture. She has written for the…

Mixing A House Track With Channel Strip Plugins

Is it possible to get a solid mix done with just channel strips? We use Waves’ SSL EV2 plugin and find out.

BeDJ: A Step By Step Timestamped Guide For Learning How To DJ?

Can BeDJ teach you every movement and mix position with a sheet music inspired timestamped DJ learning tool?…

Creating Choirs In The Style Of Forest Swords Or Kelly Lee Owens

In this new Passing Notes, we craft a lush vocal bass, pad and layered stab with Spitfire Audio’s brand…

Tom Santa May 22 Chart

Top ten for May from Tom Santa featuring KETTAMA, Tita Lau, Fab Massimo, Tchami and more.…

Pulsar Audio Releases Pulsar Massive An Emulation Of The Manley Massive Passive

One of the most revered mastering hardware EQs has been emulated by Pulsar Audio and is out today.…

Vintage Culture “Back On The Road Is Like A Family Reunion”

Ahead of his performance in San Diego this weekend for DAY.MVS.XL, we caught up with Lukas Ruiz better…

Tearing Acid Techno Bassline With SynthMaster2

We use KV331 Audio’s SynthMaster 2 to create an unorthodox acid bassline complete with effects – and all within the single plugin.

Techivation Release T-Clarity

One of the newest companies in our world, Techivation, has just released T-Clarity, the follow up to T-Compressor…

343 Labs Are On Sale. Buy 1 Class Get The 2nd Free!

Berlin and New York-based 343 Labs are on sale. Up till May 22, buy one class and get the…

Does Hardware Still Shape Genres?

We’re inundated with hardware releases all the time and yet how much of it is actually shaping new music? Attack writer Adam Douglas charts the decline of hardware as a driving force of change in music.

Making Six Sounds With One Preset Using Forbidden Planet By EastWest

EastWest is known for their huge library of sample-based instruments, but Forbidden Planet is their first adventure into the realm of hybrid morphing synths. In this tutorial we push one preset (out of the available 600!) to the limit.

Henry Daniel May 22 Chart

Top ten for May from Henry Daniel featuring Castelle, kryptogram, Late Replies, Block & Crown and more.…

Void Complet May 22 Chart

Top ten for May from Void Complet featuring Paradox, Bakey, Daniel Avery, Austin Ato and more.…

Watch A Guy Called Gerald for Around The World in 80 Raves

We kick off our summer streaming program, in support of In Place Of War, starting with none other than A…

GPU Audio Is Powering Plugins With Your Graphics Card. Is It Time To Finally Say Goodbye To Latency?

Constantly maxing out your CPU? GPU Audio is hoping to leverage your graphics card to speed up music production processing.

SCB May 22 Chart

Top ten for SCB featuring Glaskin, Jayson Wynters, Glaskin, Malwina and more.…

5Ways To Use Continuo 2 By Karanyi Sounds

In our second addition to our new “5Ways” YouTube series, we show you how to create a variety of sounds…

Mixing Techno Drums With Excite Audio’s Lifeline Console

How can you get TR-909 samples sounding punchy and powerful? Console-style processing is an excellent way to add character and thump at the mixing stage.

Double Drop: The Symbiotic Interdependence of Dance Music Duos

Harold Heath looks into the science of dance music duos……

Lunacy Audio 40% Off Sitewide Sale

Lunacy Audio are running a 40% sitewide sale including their new “CUBE mini” and “Threads”. Sale ends 31st May.…

Col Lawton May 22 Chart

Top ten for May from Col Lawton featuring Melanie Williams, Simon Adams, V77NNY, Corsica One and more.…

“How I Made ‘Lexicon'” – Lynyn Takes Us Through His Debut Album

Chicago composer Conor Mackey aka Lynyn has recently released his nine-track album “lexicon”. If you are a fan of…

5 Tips To Improve Your Synth Basslines

In this new Passing Notes we look at look at techniques you can apply to transform your synth bass lines from basic loops into one of the catchiest aspects of your track.

Arturia Unveils The V Collection 9

Arturia has just released the V Collection 9, a premium upgrade of their software instrument suite. Until June 5th, it…

Manifest Audio’s Unique Pulse Engine Arrives

From intricate trap-style high-hats to ornamental note runs, exotic rhythms, and pleasantly-glitched musical phrases, Pulse Engine is the latest unique generative MIDI effect from Berlin’s Manifest Audio.

5 Must Watch Sets At DAY.MVS XL Festival 2022

Attack Magazine breaks down 5 must-watch sets at this year’s DAY.MVS XL Festival taking place on the…

Sign Up To Play At Attack’s First Live Event

We’re very pleased to announce that Attack Magazine’s first event is happening on Sept 29th in London. If…

Anfisa Letyago May 22 Chart

Top tracks for May from Anfisa Letyago featuring Durosai, nthng, Tom Place, Four Tet and more.…

Meg Ward May 22 Chart

Top ten for May from Meg Ward featuring SUCHI, WHIPPED CREAM, Cromby, Big Miz and more.…

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