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.
Long Reads
Once a niche form of synthesis, physical modelling is now growing in popularity, offering both highly realistic – and wildly novel – results.
Tutorials
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, MPW, are offering a day of masterclasses in London on the 16th of July 2022, to…
Track By Track
Cologne-based DJ and producer Sandilé has recently put out the 4-track EP “Home Again 04” as her debut…
Synth Secrets
MiniFreak V is a new addition to Arturia’s V Collection X. We have the physical counterpart let’s load…
The Best...
From synths to effects, grooveboxes to pedals, here are our favorite music production releases of 2023.
News
Today is International Music Day! And to celebrate, the cloud storage provider pCloud is offering all music creators 500GB of…
Introducing...
Surusinghe has recently released “Heaven”, the second single on her forthcoming EP, on the ‘Steel City Dance Discs’ label. In…
The Best...
The annual thankless and impossible task is upon us. Here are 13 tracks we really got into this year.…
Interviews
Straight from his modular workshop at this year’s XP Music Futures, we caught up with house legend Satoshi Tomiie…
Show & Tell
Sian is an Ireland-born DJ, producer, label owner and visual artist based in Los Angeles. To support Sian’s…
Tutorials
Is it possible to get a solid mix done with just channel strips? We use Waves’ SSL EV2 plugin and find out.
The Best...
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
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 recently released a remixed version of Better Lost Than Stupid’s track ‘Inside’ on the label EI8HT. We…
Technique
‘Everything In Its Right Place’ is the opening tune on Radiohead’s Kid A album released in 2000. We show…
Gear/Software
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
Jeff Dodson aka Defrag has recently released his 13-track album ‘Float’, on Hymen Records. We asked him to run…
Track By Track
Cin Cin label owner Michael Greene aka Fort Romeau has recently released his LP, Beings of Light. After nearly seven…
Synth Secrets
It’s a bonafide techno classic. One of the most iconic tracks from the brilliant Alan Fitzpatrick. Time to take…
Synth Secrets
Hive 2 is beautiful. Its pads are beautiful. Let’s do this.…
News
Take part in our latest Instagram competition for a chance to win the brilliant Vintage Vault 4.…
Gear/Software
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
AI plugins are everywhere. The DAW is next. Here are the DAWs already living in the future. But are producers…
Tutorials
There are a tonne of sequencers out there. How does the new CATALYST stack up with the rest?…
Introducing...
Motivated by the allegedly impossible, producer and DJ Alberta Balsam who recently released her debut EP Higher Dreams, introduces herself…
Q&A
Deepak Sharma has been mixing it up in techno for well over a decade now. What makes him tick though…
Long Reads
We talk to Pete Cannon, DJ Formula and Vogue Renege about producing and even DJing with old Amigas – and how you can too.
Quizzes
It’s Pride Month, at least for the next few days it is. We’re joining the celebrations with a…
News
French pro-audio company, Arturia, has unveiled its largest update yet to Pigments with Pigments 3. The release introduces a…
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Quizzes
Aprils’ crossword is Ukrainian themed. How much do you know about Ukrainian music? Time to find out.…
Quizzes
You have 15 mins to complete 14 practical tests for a chance to win £2,000 worth of Roland gear…
The Best...
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? Kristan Caryl asked a group of top selectors including Dave Clarke, Mr G, Mosca and…
The Best...
2014 was an incredible year for analogue synths and 2015 looks set to deliver even more. We run through some…
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