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
Robert Hood: “Give that machine a heart”
Robert Hood’s ‘Mirror Man’ album drops later this month on Rekids. We spoke with the Detroit techno legend about…
Track By Track
Eats Everything
Eats Everything is back with his biggest release to date – an 8 track EP for the eighth release for his…
News
DJ Erick Morillo arrested and charged for sexual battery
DJ Erick Morillo has turned himself in after allegations of sexual battery on a woman.…
News
Eventide Releases ShimmerVerb, A “Massively Lustrous” Reverb Plug-In
Eventide continues its series of H-series hardware effect emulations with ShimmerVerb, combining reverb with parallel pitch shifting.
Long Reads
Making A Synth From Scratch – Sonicware Liven 8bit warps
Creating a new synthesizer is a long journey full of challenges, deadlines and pressures. We talked with Japanese boutique instrument company Sonicware about the process behind the making of their new synthesizer, Liven 8bit warps.
Hardware Focus
Roland System-100
In our latest Hardware Focus, we take a look at Roland’s 1975 semi-modular behemoth, the System 100.
News
Saffron Launches Digital Members Club to Tackle Gender Imbalance in Music Tech
Saffron has launched a digital subscription platform, Saffron Members, for womxn to connect and learn in the world of music…
News
Akai MPK Mini Mk3: The “World’s Best-Selling” USB MIDI Keyboard Controller Gets A Reboot
The new MPK mini has a slick new look and a slew of new features aimed at solidifying its reputation as the MIDI Swiss Army knife.
Gear/Software
Modal Electronics COBALT8
Modal’s latest is a virtual analogue poly that aspires to reinvent the aesthetic of traditional analogue sound.
Columns
Swimming Against The Stream
Spotify announced their latest mad plan ‘Amplifying Artist Input in Your Personalized Recommendations’ this week. Harold Heath shares some fair…
News
Engine DJ’s New Update Brings Soundcloud Go+ and Beatport Link Streaming to Denon DJ Products
Engine OS v1.5 also features a new Quick Source Menu, making it easier to switch between various sources including all supported streaming services.
Show & Tell
Ooft
Glasgow’s Ali Herron (Rapture, Delusions of Grandeur and Wolf Music) has just dropped his excellent deep house and slo…
News
October’s Best Music
It’s that time again when we round up some of the best house and techno released last month: turn…
Gear/Software
Native Instruments Maschine+
With Maschine +, Native Instruments cut the computer tether to offer a premium DAWless beat-making experience—but is it worth the price?
News
Black Junglist Alliance launches community portal, BJA TV
The Black Junglist Alliance has set up a community portal to unite Black artists in the world of jungle and…
News
£500 Million Culture Recovery Fund Includes Dance Music Events
New guidance confirms that dance music events will be eligible to receive grants from £500 million relief fund.…
Tutorials
Mono-Safe Stereo Width
In this tutorial, we look at three techniques that will ensure that your wide mixes still sound good when collapsed to mono.
Track By Track
DJ E-Clyps
DJ E-Clyps’ third album, ‘Vintage Future II’ drops today. We got him to talk us through it, Track By…
News
WHO Relief Fund Raffle Winners Announced
It’s time to announce the winners of our WHO relief fund raffle. Read on to see if it’s…
News
Sequential Adds User Wavetable Import To Pro 3 Monosynth
Sequential this week announced a significant enhancement to their acclaimed Pro 3 multi-filter monosynth — support for user-created wavetables.
Synth Secrets
Supermassive Pads With Valhalla
In this Synth Secrets, we create an ambient pad full of modulation and character using Valhalla’s free Supermassive reverb and delay plug-in.
Deconstructed
Joe Smooth – Promised Land
For this month’s Deconstructed, we take apart the arrangement of a deep house vocal classic, Joe Smooth’s ‘Promised Land’.
Track By Track
Paul Cut
French DJ and producer Paul Cut released his ‘Le Bal des Douaniers’ album earlier this year, a feast of precisely…
News
Pioneer DJ Release Limited Edition Version Of The DDJ-SB3
The DDJ-SB3-S features silver-colored aluminum jog wheels with a matching body and it will only be available in specific regions.
My Studio
Richard Devine
A real treat for gear heads this month as we take a look around the fabulously well-specc’ed studio…
Interviews
North Street Collective: “The Spirits In The Air”
From his role in X-Press 2, Black Science Orchestra and The Ballistic Brothers to his many solo projects, Gentleman…
News
Primal Scream singer Denise Johnson has died
Denise Johnson, who sung with Primal Scream and New Order, has died aged 56.…
Columns
Summer In The Hamptons
Have we, with a little help from the Chainsmokers, a Goldman Sachs CEO and a plot to hawk hand sanitiser…
Tutorials
Filter Fills
In this tutorial, we program a chord stab and look at how to use advanced filter modulation to create dynamic effects in a breakdown.
Long Reads
Sound System Revolution
Marcus K. Dowling takes a look at the influence of West Indian sound system culture on the birth of the…
News
Theoryboard Wants To Be Your Springboard To Advanced Music Theory
The Theoryboard is a 96-pad controller that aims to overcome the obstacle of music theory knowledge during production.
