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.
Interviews
Indira Paganotto
Over the last nine years, Spanish DJ and Producer Indira Paganotto has made the journey from creating deep tech-tinged…
News
Erica Synths’ New Black Sequencer Promises Next Level Modular Sequencing
The 4-channel device boasts creative control over patterns by means of detailed per-step controls, timing divisions, randomization, probability and more.
News
Junkie XL to Sell Mouthwatering Collection of Analog Gear
A Moog Minimoog Voyager XL used to score Mad Max: Fury Road leads the line in the new shop of…
News
PLAYdifferently Unveil the New MODEL 1.4 Co-Designed by Richie Hawtin
The new MODEL 1.4 was co-designed by Hawtin, who also used feedback from artists, clubs and engineers to build on the existing features from the MODEL 1.
Tutorials
Jack Your Tracks With Swing
In this tutorial, we look at many different ways to add swing to a beat, using a main room-style track as an example.
News
Spitfire Audio Partner With Warp Artist Darkstar On New Library
Sample experts Spitfire Audio have announced Haunted House, a new library of “spectral synth textures” made in cooperation with Darkstar.
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Win £1,000 Worth of Free Studio Time At Secretsundaze Studios
Win £1,000 worth of credit at Secretsundaze Studios in London by taking a survey.
Long Reads
NAMM 2021: Leaks, Rumours And Advance Announcements
While this year’s NAMM will be online-only, we can still expect plenty of releases over the coming week. Here’s what we’re looking forward to.
Gear/Software
Korg opsix
Korg’s latest synth promises ‘altered’ FM synthesis. But is it more than just an overblown Volca FM?
News
Korg Announce the SQ-64 Polyphonic Step Sequencer
Korg make a swift return to hardware step sequencers with the new 64-pad SQ-64.
News
Steinberg Rolls Out Cubase 11
The newest version of Cubase brings new content and features across the all three editions of Steinberg’s flagship DAW – Elements, Artist and Pro.
Hardware Focus
Changing The Internal Battery In Vintage Gear
One of the most common issues with vintage gear is a dead internal battery. We show you what to look for and how to change it.
Long Reads
Do DAWs Really Have Their Own Sound? Part 2
In part two of our series, we continue to examine whether there are discernible differences in the sound of three popular DAWs, Ableton Live, FL Studio 20, and Logic Pro X.
News
AFEM Launch Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination Code of Conduct
The industry body describes their new initiative as “a powerful response from the industry for the industry.”…
News
Korg Announce The Opsix Altered FM Synthesizer
Korg’s latest is a digital poly-synth that takes classic six-operator FM modulation and enhances it with new FM paramaters and operator modes.
Deconstructed
Aphex Twin – Vordhosbn
In this instalment of Deconstructed, we attempt to get to grips with the arrangement of the Aphex Twin classic, ‘Vordhosbn’.
My Studio
Jimpster
The Freerange boss, DJ and deep house producer extraordinaire has just put out his ‘Dub Come Down’ collab EP with…
News
Ableton Live 11 Brings Long-Awaited New Features, Devices
The significant update to Ableton Live promises new features like comping and MIDI Polyphonic Expression, new devices, performance enhancements, expanded probability functionality, and new sounds.
News
Spitfire Audio Samples A Broken Upright Piano For Its Newest Instrument Firewood Piano
Firewood Piano is the latest installment in the artist-created Originals range and it features multiple presets aimed at capturing the unique piano’s resonances and physical traits.
Q&A
Man Power
Man Power’s ‘Multi Periodic Oscillations EP’ drops on Alan Dixon’s Love Attack on 18th January, so we thought…
Synth Secrets
808-Style Booms
In this Synth Secrets, we explore how to synthesize your own booms for techno, jungle and other kinds of bass music.
Columns
Promised Land(fill)
With over 40,000 pieces of music released every day, Harold Heath wonders how many jokes he can make at the expense of tech house.
News
Moog Make Their Most Affordable Synth Available Again
The Moog Werkstatt-01 analogue monosynth is back on the market for $199, and now includes the CV Expander for interfacing with Eurorack and other semi-modular Moogs.
News
Refraction – Elektron Analog Rytm Preset Pack
Our latest product into our online store is “Refraction” – a preset pack for the Elektron Analog Rytm.
Beat Dissected
Radiohead-Style Low End Layering
In this Beat Dissected, we celebrate the 20th anniversary of Radiohead’s ‘Kid A’ by working through some of the drum programming techniques used in the title track.
News
Spitfire Audio Partners With Abbey Road Studios For New Virtual Instrument Recorded In the Iconic Studio One
A full orchestra featuring 90-plus musicians performed during the recording of the audio for this new library, aptly named Abbey Road One: Orchestral Foundations.
News
England-based DJs And Producers Eligible To Receive Grants Of Up To £10,000 From Arts Council England
Applicants to the Art Council’s Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) program can receive a grant of £2,000-£10,000 from the total budget of £18 million.
News
2020’s Best Electronic Albums
In an uncertain year one thing we could depend on was music. We take a look back though a few…
Tutorials
5 Mixing Rules You Should Be Breaking
In this tutorial, we look at five rule-breaking ways to inject your productions with unexpected creativity.
News
Novation Comes To Daddy With The Limited Edition AFX Station
Novation’s 2013 Bass Station 2 gets remixed by Richard D James with new graphics and AFX Mode pre-loaded.
