News
Teenage Engineering Release OP-XY
A follow-up to the OP-Z in a smart-looking black monochrome finish has been unveiled, and it comes…
News
Splice Announces New Sample Partnership With Alissia
The library behemoth, Splice, and GRAMMY®-nominated producer Alissia are set to release six curated sample collections presented as “Alissia…
News
Anthony Godfather Announces World Tour
Dubbed ‘The Father’ of Latin tech by Mixmag, Anthony Godfather is heading out on the road.…
Tutorials
The Theory Of Techno Pads (Part 1)
In an excerpt from our new book, The Secrets of Techno Production, we dive into the theory of techno pads…
Synth Secrets
The Baddadan Synth Bass Sound
The sound of the summer. We retrospectively look at the Baddadan horn synth bass that continues to rumble dance floors…
Attack Store
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.
The Producer’s Manual
Everything you need to take a mix, from initial recording to final master.
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.
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.
News
Refraction – Elektron Analog Rytm Preset Pack
Our latest product into our online store is “Refraction” – a preset pack for the Elektron Analog Rytm.
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
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.
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
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…
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
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.
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.
Gear/Software
ROLI Equator2
To those who have been turning a blind eye to ROLI because of their pricey hardware, the time has come to take them very, very seriously as software synth developers. Equator2 is nothing short of astonishing.
News
Spitfire Audio Releases Spectrum, A Virtual Instrument Made In Collaboration With Afrodeutsche
Spectrum contains 50 presets of multi-textural synth sounds ranging from pads to tempo-synced loops and drums, all programmed by Afrodeutsche.
Columns
Music Industry Suggests Sunak Retrains As A Decent Politician
Harold Heath examines multi-millionaire re-training advocate Rishi Sunak’s advice to the music industry to simply get another…
Hardware Focus
Yamaha DX7
We take a deep dive into the history of the Yamaha DX7, perhaps the defining synthesizer of the 1980s.
Track By Track
Aleksandir – Skin
Just ahead of his debut album, ‘Skin’, on Omena Records, we caught up with Aleksandir and asked him to walk…
News
Sequential Renews The Prophet-5 And Introduces The Prophet-10
Sequential this week announced the reintroduction of its most famous and beloved instrument: the Prophet-5. Timed to coincide with founder Dave Smith’s 70th birthday, the instrument stays faithful to the original while adding new features based on its revisions over the years.
News
Rebekah Launches #ForTheMusic Campaign To Combat Sexual Harassment and Assault In Dance Music
In an open letter to the industry on change.org the DJ and producer describes obstructions women have regularly faced and underlines that now is the time to choose to be on the right side of history
Long Reads
Gear Predictions For 2021
We cast our gaze into the future and predict what hardware releases await us in the coming year.
Passing Notes
Generating Chords and Melodies with Random MIDI
In this sequel to our Passing Notes article about auto-generated parts, we use Live’s Random MIDI device to generate a long chord progression and two melodic leads.
News
Rave Game Invites You To Dance And Die
The party soon turns deadly in Strobophagia: Rave Horror, a PC game that drops you into a deadly and psychedelic occult forest rave.
News
New Japanese Company Tweets Images Of A Prophet-mini In The Works
The Prophet-mini appears to be a battery-powered and condensed Prophet-5, featuring four voices, 37 keys and built-in speakers.
Long Reads
2020: Our Best-Read Technique Articles Of The Year
We look back at the most popular Attack tutorials and how-tos of the year.
Interviews
Fabio Boxikus from Gegen
For December’s feature interview we spoke with Fabio Boxikus, promoter of Berlin’s infamous Gegen, a queer sex positive…
Track By Track
Setaoc Mass
Setaoc Mass has just dropped a new eight-track EP ‘Neo-Noir’ on Berlin’s SK_eleven label. ‘Neo-Noir’ is…
News
Arturia Announce PolyBrute, A Morphing Analogue Polysynth
The French brand’s follow-up to 2016’s MatrixBrute boasts polyphony, preset morphing and new options for modulation with expression.
Gear/Software
Werkstatt-01 And CV Expander
Is it really possible to get the coveted Moog sound for around £200? Darren Selement investigates the Werkstatt-01 and finds out.
Columns
2020 A Year In Dance Music. Pt. 2: Plague Raves – Watch Like Nobody’s Dancing
We continue our review of 2020 in dance music, with the second half of a year in which DJs tragically…
News
Pioneer DJ Introduces The MPU-Powered CDJ-3000
Pioneer DJ’s latest DJ multi player features an MPU processor, a nine-inch touchscreen, and a number of overall improvements.
News
Native Instruments Announce Maschine+, The First-Ever Standalone Version Of Their Flagship Groovebox
Maschine+ is the first embedded product from Native Instruments, bringing the company’s instruments, effects, and sounds into an entirely hardware-based workflow.
Long Reads
2020: A Year In Dance Music Part 1 – Through The Haunted Mirror
We look back at the year in dance music through the twisted prism of social media.…
Long Reads
2020: The Year In Gear
We look back at a year of music technology and pick our favourite pieces of hardware.
News
UDO Audio’s New Analogue-Hybrid Synthesizer, The Super 6, Hits The Market
The Super 6 is a 12-voice polyphonic binaural analog-hybrid synthesizer with replaceable wavetables.
