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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Crossword #11 May 22

In need of a brand new quiz? Test your music and electronic music gear knowledge in our crossword for the…

How Beatport & Microsoft Are Aiming To Reshape Music With Originals²

Two entertainment giants partner to shape how we might consume music in future.…

Anja Schneider April 22 Chart

Top ten for April from Anja Schneider featuring Kittin, Instra:mental, Logic1000, Cinthie, Ryan James Ford and more.…

Master Tones Releases The Palette: An Analogue-Inspired Polisher

Master Tones has announced The Palette an analogue-inspired, multi-channel polisher plugin that brings classic analogue gear sound to…

Recreating The Sound Of Immaterial By Sophie Using Wavetable

In this Synth Secrets, we’re going to use Ableton Wavetable to show you the foundational elements of Sophie’s…

Dave Smith 1950-2022

The music world was rocked to hear of the passing of synth hero Dave Smith.…

Fabrizio De Santis April 22 Chart

Top ten for April from Fabrizio De Santis featuring Alarico, No.name, Temudo, Aphex twin and more.…

Moog Grandmother Dark Series Competition Winner Announced

It’s time to announce the winner of last month’s Attack X KMR Audio competition. Read on to see…

A New Album Every Two Weeks: The Story Of Aleksi Perälä

There are many different ways to make music but none are quite as original as Aleksi Perälä’s. We speak to the prolific producer about his remarkable output.

Floating Points-Inspired Vocoder Drums

We use Waves’ OVox to turn a UK garage beat into a melodic line, harnessing the power of both its synthesis and melody-generating capabilities.

Baby Audio Releases Crystalline: A Sophisticated Algorithmic Reverb Plugin

Crystalline by Baby Audio is a next-generation reverb plugin that strives to be the most ‘perfect algorithmic reverb’ on…

MEOWHAT April 22 Chart

Top ten for April from MEOWHAT featuring Ethyène, Ikotu, N’gaho Ta’quia, Soul of Hex, Leron Carson and…

9 Things You May Have Missed This May

Been too busy to keep up this May? Read a quick round-up of all the goings-on in dance music this past month.

Arturia’s Flagship V9 Collection In Review

Arturia’s returns with their brand new V Collection 9, packed with a number of new plugins and presets.…

MarzAttack April 22 Chart

Top ten for April from MarzAttack featuring Tony Benn Feghaly, Moses, Space Ghost, Madlib, Kazi and more.…

Rudosa April 22 Chart

Top ten for April from Rudosa featuring Yanamaste, Rosati, Primal, JORG & NOUS and more.…

How Prevalent Is Ageism In Dance Music?

We spoke with Fabio, Anja Schneider and I:Robots about the reality of getting old working in dance music.…

The Best Production Courses On Mix With The Masters

In this article, we share with you, five of the best ‘Mix With The Masters’ production classes from Finneas, Sonny…

Grab A Free Waves Trans-X Plugin

We’ve teamed up with legendary plugin developers Waves to give you a free plugin: Waves’ Trans-X.…

Mixing A Breaks Track Using Waves’ Gold Plus Subscription

Is it possible to mix a song using just Waves’ Music Maker Access subscription service? We find out.

Making Techno With Lunacy Cube

In this article, we show you how we used Lunacy Cube to make the musical parts in a techno tune…

Make A Techno Bassline Using Generate

In this tutorial, we’re working with Newfangled Audio’s lovely Generate plugin to process a techno bassline.…

Levon Vincent Mar 22 Chart

Top ten for March from Levon Vincent featuring Lord & Kaidi, Tom Trago, Synapse, Delano Smith, Terrence Dixon and more…

8 Things You May Have Missed This March

With so many stories released every day, it’s easy to miss some. Here’s a round-up of some…

Stuttered IDM Hi-Hats With Audiomodern Playbeat 3

In this tutorial we use the full power of Playbeat 3’s randomization to program IDM-style dynamic hi-hat and percussion patterns.

Celebrate Vangelis With A Vangelis Listening Quiz

Celebrate the life of Vangelis and International Synth Day with this challenging quiz.

Klaudia Gawlas Mar 22 Chart

Top ten for March from producer & DJ Klaudia Gawlas featuring Nina Kraviz, Axel Karakasis, Bart Skils, Weska and more…

Marc Houle Mar 22 Chart

Top ten for March from producer & DJ Marc Houle featuring The Aztec Mystic, A Number of Names, Theo Parrish…

Aslice: Can An Altruistic DJ Payment Program Work?

Aslice is a software-based service, founded by DVS1, that asks DJs to share their earnings with the artists in…

All Hail Superbooth 2022: Beeps, Squeaks, Bratwurst & Beer

Berlin’s biggest synthesizer tradeshow came back swinging. Here’s our biggest takeaways.

Lawrence Hart Mar 22 Chart

Top ten for March from producer & DJ Lawrence Hart featuring Ryan Winters, Kessler, Cameo Blush, Leon Vynehall and more…

Create Morphing Arpeggios Inspired By Floating Points Using Ableton’s Wavetable

In our latest Synth Secrets YouTube video, we use Ableton’s Wavetable to create morphing arpeggios inspired by Floating Points…

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