Long Reads
Excite and Resonate: A History of Physical Modelling Synthesis
Once a niche form of synthesis, physical modelling is now growing in popularity, offering both highly realistic – and wildly novel – results.
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Tutorials
Using PlayStation Impulse Responses With FabFilter Pro-R 2
From Call of Duty to Fifa, PlayStation has been a staple in most of our lives for 30 years. But…
News
Music Production For Women Are Offering A Day Of Masterclasses For Female & Non-Gender Conforming Musicians
Music Production For Women, MPW, are offering a day of masterclasses in London on the 16th of July 2022, to…
Track By Track
Sandilé
Cologne-based DJ and producer Sandilé has recently put out the 4-track EP “Home Again 04” as her debut…
Synth Secrets
Making Com Truise Style Basslines With MiniFreak V
MiniFreak V is a new addition to Arturia’s V Collection X. We have the physical counterpart let’s load…
The Best...
The 10 Best Hardware and Software Releases of the Year
From synths to effects, grooveboxes to pedals, here are our favorite music production releases of 2023.
News
PCloud Are Gifting Musicians 500GB Of Free Storage To Celebrate International Music Day
Today is International Music Day! And to celebrate, the cloud storage provider pCloud is offering all music creators 500GB of…
Introducing...
Surusinghe – “Difference Is What Makes The World An Interesting Place”
Surusinghe has recently released “Heaven”, the second single on her forthcoming EP, on the ‘Steel City Dance Discs’ label. In…
The Best...
The 13 Best Electronic Music Tracks Of The Year
The annual thankless and impossible task is upon us. Here are 13 tracks we really got into this year.…
Interviews
5 Mins With Satoshi Tomiie At XP Music Futures 2023
Straight from his modular workshop at this year’s XP Music Futures, we caught up with house legend Satoshi Tomiie…
Show & Tell
Sian
Sian is an Ireland-born DJ, producer, label owner and visual artist based in Los Angeles. To support Sian’s…
Tutorials
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.
The Best...
Ten of the Best Abandoned Plugins
From an early NI emulation to trackers and more, some of the best soft synths and effects ever made are now lost to the inexorable march of technology.
Tutorials
Making Your Own Techno Kick Mix Chain Using Waves’ StudioRack
Using Waves’ free StudioRack plugin, we show you how to build up a go-to kick chain with compression, saturation, EQ and parallel processing.
Q&A
Andres Campo: “I Was Playing Music, Doing My Thing & Some People Asked Me To Play Some Music To Dance To”
Andres Campo recently released a remixed version of Better Lost Than Stupid’s track ‘Inside’ on the label EI8HT. We…
Technique
Recreate Radiohead ‘Everything In Its Right Place’
‘Everything In Its Right Place’ is the opening tune on Radiohead’s Kid A album released in 2000. We show…
Gear/Software
Roland Gaia 2: Synthesis Is Back
Roland’s Gaia 2 is a digital synth with wavetables and tons of synthesis options but does it deserve a place in the company’s pantheon of godlike instruments?
Track By Track
Defrag – ‘Float’
Jeff Dodson aka Defrag has recently released his 13-track album ‘Float’, on Hymen Records. We asked him to run…
Track By Track
Fort Romeau
Cin Cin label owner Michael Greene aka Fort Romeau has recently released his LP, Beings of Light. After nearly seven…
Synth Secrets
Remake The Synth From ‘We Do What We Want’
It’s a bonafide techno classic. One of the most iconic tracks from the brilliant Alan Fitzpatrick. Time to take…
Synth Secrets
Make Beautiful Pads With Hive 2
Hive 2 is beautiful. Its pads are beautiful. Let’s do this.…
News
Win UVI’s Vintage Vault 4 Worth $3,934!
Take part in our latest Instagram competition for a chance to win the brilliant Vintage Vault 4.…
Gear/Software
AIAIAI TMA-2 Studio Wireless+ Headphones
AIAIAI’s studio headphones are the first wireless headphones with a dedicated transmitter. But is going cable-free worth it? Are they the best choice for music production? We test them out.
Long Reads
Assessing The Shift in Power From Producers to AI In Your DAW
AI plugins are everywhere. The DAW is next. Here are the DAWs already living in the future. But are producers…
Tutorials
How To Use A Sequencer With Catalyst
There are a tonne of sequencers out there. How does the new CATALYST stack up with the rest?…
Introducing...
Alberta Balsam
Motivated by the allegedly impossible, producer and DJ Alberta Balsam who recently released her debut EP Higher Dreams, introduces herself…
Q&A
Deepak Sharma
Deepak Sharma has been mixing it up in techno for well over a decade now. What makes him tick though…
Long Reads
Friends Are Electric: Making Music With Vintage Amiga Computers
We talk to Pete Cannon, DJ Formula and Vogue Renege about producing and even DJing with old Amigas – and how you can too.
Quizzes
Crossword Number 14: Pride Month
It’s Pride Month, at least for the next few days it is. We’re joining the celebrations with a…
News
Arturia Release Pigments 3
French pro-audio company, Arturia, has unveiled its largest update yet to Pigments with Pigments 3. The release introduces a…
Advertising
Marketing & Advertising With Attack Magazine
If you’re reading this, you might consider working with Attack Magazine. Read on to find out how we can…
Quizzes
Crossword #10 April 22
Aprils’ crossword is Ukrainian themed. How much do you know about Ukrainian music? Time to find out.…
Quizzes
How High is Your Roland IQ?
You have 15 mins to complete 14 practical tests for a chance to win £2,000 worth of Roland gear…
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Ten Of The Best: Headphones For Music Production
We offer a selection of our recommended headphones for studio use, picking out our top choices at a range of…
Long Reads
What Makes A Great DJ?
What makes a great DJ? Kristan Caryl asked a group of top selectors including Dave Clarke, Mr G, Mosca and…
The Best...
Ten Of The Best: New Analogue Mono Synths
2014 was an incredible year for analogue synths and 2015 looks set to deliver even more. We run through some…