Long Reads
10 Key Moments in Music Production History
Here are ten times that companies took chances on new tech and producers abused it in the name of fresh sounds.
News
Splice Adds Country Music To Splice Create
Country techno might just be on the horizon……
News
Trifecta by Manifest Audio: Multitimbral Polyrhythmic Arpeggiator with Auto-Hocketting
Designed to arrive at uniquely interwoven patterns, Manifest Audio delivers a truly unique sequencing arpeggiator…
News
Experience The Secrets of Techno Production: Berlin Book Launch Next Week
Join us at Torte Bar on January 14th for an evening of workshops, networking and techno.…
The Best...
The 10 Best Secret Sauce Plugins Of 2024
Here are our choices for the 10 best secret sauce plugins of 2024, apps that can turn a blah track into a banger – and four of them are free!
Attack Store
Dance Music Producers’ Power Book Bundle
Get 2 best-selling music production books. Buy more, spend less.
The Secrets of Dance Music Production
The world-leading book on dance music production. Comes with samples too.
Max for Live: Knob Studio
Knob Studio offers dynamic waveform manipulation and parameter mapping capabilities.
Max For Live: Chance Engine
Add controlled yet random fluctuations to your most important parameters
Max For Live: Mouth Play
Unconventional vocal shaping with a brass model or FM oscillator source
Replicants – Elektron Analog Rytm Sample Pack
Electro sounds for the Elektron Analog Rytm. Free your spirit.
Deconstructed
Catz ‘n Dogz & Gerd Janson – Modern Romance
Deconstructed is a series where we break down the arrangement of a song. This time, we’re laser focussed on Catz ’n Dogz and Gerd Janson’s melodic house track, ‘Modern Romance’.
My Studio
Quenum
Cadenza co-founder Quenum (Cocoon, Second State) is about to drop a three track underground house EP ‘Little Secret’ featuring…
Video Tutorials
Bicep Style Breakbeats
After a few years away from the platform, Attack is returning to publishing content on YouTube. To begin with, we…
News
SoundCloud Announces Fan-Powered Royalties
Soundcloud has announced they are introducing fan-powered royalties where money made from listeners goes directly to the artists they…
Long Reads
From Voder To OVox: A History Of Vocal Synthesis
In the first installment of a two-part story, we look at the evolution of vocal synthesis, from primitive speech-mimicking machines to modern software vocoders.
Tutorials
Dynamic Modulation With LFOs – Part Two
In this second installment of our LFO-focused tutorials, we complete the house beat from part one with a modulating pad and randomized vocal effects.
News
Eventide Rewinds Time With The Clockworks Bundle
Eventide are celebrating 50 years of audio goodness with the introduction of the Eventide Clockworks Bundle.…
Track By Track
Wayward
Wayward are dropping their debut album ‘Waiting For The World’ next month. We got Lawrence Hayes and Louis Greenwood…
Long Reads
“I’d be disappointed if we went 100% back to normal”: How the Dutch Dance Music Scene Intends to Reform Upon Reopening
With the Dutch dance music industry, which has been closed for twelve months, still lacking cultural recognition from the government…
Track By Track
Silverlining
UK DJ and producer extraordinaire Silverlining has just dropped his superb seven-track album Simulacra. Like all his work it…
News
Jeff Mills Releases Free Magazine The Escape Velocity
The techno icon has released his debut magazine The Escape Velocity and it’s free to read online.…
News
Ableton Live 11 is Now Available
With plenty of new features, Ableton Live 11 is now available. We take a brief look at what’s new…
Synth Secrets
Dub Techno Synth Chords
This Synth Secrets sees us synthesizing some dub techno chords. Tape echo at the ready.
Quizzes
Quiz #1: International Women’s Day. Celebrating Women in Electronic Music
It’s International Women’s Day and we’re doing things a bit different to previous years. Take part in…
News
Daft Punk Have Split After 28 Years
Daft Punk, the Parisian duo responsible for some of the most popular dance music of all time, have announced their…
Columns
Yousef: “Logic and Brexit don’t go hand in hand”
Last week DJ and producer Yousef (Crosstown Rebels, Hot Creations etc.) spoke to a UK government cross-party round table…
Interviews
Moving The Needle
Moving The Needle is a new initiative that aims to tackle gender inequality in the music industry. We asked industry…
Long Reads
Carl Craig And The Quality Of Sound
We talk with Carl Craig about the sound of DAWs, summing in the box with Harrison Mixbus, and making sure your music has character.
News
Waves Release Vocal Bender – Real-Time Voice Manipulation
Waves has announced their latest plugin Vocal Bender, a zero-latency pitch and formant shifter that lets you manipulate vocals…
News
Prism – Elekton Digitone Preset Pack
Our latest product in our online store is “Prism” – a preset pack for the Elektron Digitone.…
Tutorials
Secretos de la Producción de Música Dance: Sonido Capturado y Lo-Fi
Este seminario es un pequeño ejemplo de nuestro nuevo libro “Secretos de la Producción de Música Dance…
Tutorials
Acid House Processing With Waves Vocal Bender
We use Waves’ new vocal processing plugin Vocal Bender to tweak out an acid house track.
News
COVID 19: Rapid Testing Paves The Way to Clubs Reopening
The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has announced that rapid lateral flow testing could enable nightclubs to reopen.…
News
Novation Unveils Circuit Tracks
Novation has unveiled Circuit Tracks, the follow-up to 2015’s evergreen Circuit.…
Q&A
Tom VR
Producer Tom VR has just dropped a killer EP for Midland’s Intergraded label, ‘Fast Track To Bliss’ featuring four…
Beat Dissected
Interplanetary Criminal-Style Garage
In this new Beat Dissected we program a UK garage beat inspired by Interplanetary Criminal’s ‘Supreme Level’, a true UKG classic in the making.
News
Spitfire Audio release new pack of Cimbalom sounds.
Having recently announced a cool ten million downloads on their free Lab series, pioneering British firm Spitfire Audio has just…
Long Reads
Waves Nx: Ocean Way Nashville – Listening In 3D
We look at the science behind Waves’ new 3D audio plugin, Nx: Ocean Way Nashville.
Quizzes
Crossword #3 – Drum ‘n’ Bass
Time on your hands? You don’t have to be in retirement to enjoy this classic format as we present…
Synth Secrets
Subby Garage Bass
In this Synth Secrets, we dig deep into analogue synthesis to make some dirty, subby garage bass in the style of Interplanetary Criminal.
News
NAMM 2021: Behringer Add New 2600 Editions, Revamp Hardware Sequencer, Tease Classic Synth Prototypes
Behringer have recently announced a number of new releases, from new versions of their 2600 remake to a resurrection of their own classic hardware controller, the BCR2000.
