Articles by Andy Price, Editor of Computer Music

Andy is the editor of Computer Music and former editor of MusicTech. He's previously written for Guitar.com, NME, Uncut, Audio Media International and Classic Pop. He's always keen to investigate the latest trends that affect music-makers.

Articles by: Andy Price

Kölsch: "I have this obsession with instruments that don’t sound very good. They have more soul than glitzy, modern-sounding VSTs"

By Andy Price published 22 April 24

Danish house and techno artist Kölsch’s latest album, I Talk To Water, incorporates recordings by his late musician father and explores the emotional weight of grief. We found out more about its conception…

"I come from the old-school, the analogue tape and mixing desk-era - but with software, you have so much potential for playing around": The Orb spin-off Sedibus on new project SETI, manipulating samples and the evolution of technology

By Andy Price published 2 April 24

Detaching from The Orb mothership, Sedibus is the latest project of core figurehead Alex Paterson, accompanied by former Orb-member and key creative collaborator Andy Falconer

8 of the best new immersive audio plugins for 2024

By Andy Price published 28 March 24

GEAR EXPO 2024: Here are our picks of some of the slickest routes to creating and mixing in surround or 3D sound

"I started hallucinating whispers that weren't part of the composition - it was intense": Maria W Horn on spectral synthesis, recording in a former prison and her love of SuperCollider

By Andy Price published 28 March 24

Through instrumental textures, room responses, the human voice and a specialised computer language, Maria W Horn explores sound's spectral properties. We heard more about her processes and the chilling story behind her affecting new album, Panoptikon

"Platforms don't need to be complex, or for someone to be hoovering up that much of the income": Wavetick on their new artist and producer-focused sample marketplace

By Andy Price published 25 March 24

Promising an artist-focused service that gives musicians, beatmakers and producers a free marketplace to trade their sonic wares, Wavetick aims to disrupt the current sample website paradigm in the creator’s favour. Let’s find out more…

Leapwing Audio: “The first person I asked for an opinion on our products was Bob Katz. I was convinced he’d find something wrong with it - he came back and said that it was the best-sounding thing he’d heard”

By Andy Price published 13 March 24

Leapwing's intuitive, incisive plugins let users perform forensic mix surgery with ease and emulate the tones of iconic producers. We spoke to Product Manager Robin Reumers to find out more

Ableton Live 12 is here: everything you need to know - new devices, MIDI additions, workflow changes and more

By Andy Price published 5 March 24

The next edition of Live has landed with a new synth, MIDI tools, a refreshed interface and more

Composer Petri Alanko on scoring Alan Wake 2, building his own instruments and his 2000-strong plugin collection: "You start following a tiny lead and it can bring you into this marvellous, different world"

By Andy Price published 29 February 24

Petri Alanko built a score for Alan Wake 2 that harnessed an arsenal of plugins with DIY instruments and a huge array of hardware and software synths. We spoke to Petri about his idiosyncratic approach

Aaron Horn: "My dad banned me from all the studios as a little kid. Every kid just wants to hit a load of buttons, don’t they?"

By Andy Price published 16 February 24

Stepping out of the shadow of his legendary father, Trevor, Aaron Horn has charted a unique course across the music industry, from producing for Doja Cat to mastering sound meditation

Mixing Night Audio: “I sold my SSL last year. I don’t need to look at gear anymore; I want to look at stuff that’s fun and inspiring and clever and different. That’s the ethos behind our designs”

By Andy Price published 15 February 24

We catch up with the founders of Mixing Night Audio, the brand behind quirky, gamified plugins like LOLCOMP that deliver pro-level results

"The most heartwarming thing was to receive nice words about my music from Aphex Twin": Sign Libra takes us inside the making of her intensely personal third album

By Andy Price published 19 January 24

Latvian producer Agata Melnikova is harnessing old-school software for a cutting-edge sound on Hidden Beauty

“We wrote it in about five minutes”: Interrogating the myth of the quickly-written hit song

By Andy Price published 12 January 24

We speak to industry luminaries and songwriting experts to investigate whether the popular idea that chart-topping song can be written in minutes holds any water…

A screen shot of Minimal Audio's Currents software synthesizer

Minimal Audio: "One of the best things about the music technology industry is that it’s one of the only places left where indie people can make something special that means something"

By Andy Price published 8 January 24

We sit down with Jacob Penn, Ben Wyss and Nathan Wexler of Minimal Audio to hear more about the development of their latest soft synth and content platform, Current

“My idea was to merge The 1975 and Skrillex and make something between those two worlds”: SILK on the phenomenal success of his viral hit single Quiver

By Andy Price published 5 January 24

Hailed by the likes of Fred again.. and Disclosure, SILK’s emotive hybrid of tech house and pop merges melodic songcraft with irresistible, club-ready beats

Magnetic Skies: "Everything starts off in Logic with stock synth plugins, but most of what you hear on this album will be the Juno-106"

By Andy Price published 2 January 24

Fusing the chilly intensity of darkwave with the melodic sensibilities of ’80s synthpop, four-piece outfit Magnetic Skies have just dropped their debut album. We sat down with frontman Simon Kent to find out more

Apashe: "Ableton became a reason to give up on your old DAW and switch - now Bitwig is starting to get that same traction"

By Andy Price published 29 December 23

Best of 2023: Blending the world of classical music with a hard-hitting, electronic ethos, Apashe is operating within a uniquely epic sonic universe. We find out more about the scope of his ambitions

ARMNHMR: "Minimal Audio's Rift and Xfer's Serum are by far the most-used plugins in our toolbox"

By Andy Price published 21 December 23

Joseph Chung and Joseph Abella’s fusion of dubstep, trance and techno has found favour with millions of listeners globally

Musik Hack on refining UI design with the Master Plan plugin: "I want to make something that allows people to express themselves purely and not feel like they’re having to make compromises"

By Andy Price published 21 December 23

We sit down with Musik Hack co-founder Sam Fischmann to hear more about the development of its new mastering plugin

6 of the best new DAWs in 2023

By Andy Price published 13 December 23

Ableton, Bitwig, Logic and FL Studio all received major updates this year, but who'll take our crown?

8 of the best new plugins in 2023

By Andy Price published 13 December 23

Gear of the Year continues with our round-up of the finest soft synths, effects processors and mixing tools that 2023 had to offer

How Meduza almost abandoned billion-streaming global hit Piece of Your Heart: “We couldn’t figure out what to do with it - we were actually close to junking it”

By Andy Price published 7 December 23

Driven by a gift for euphoric hooks, big-room beats and deft vocal processing, this Milan-hailing trio have become Italy's most-streamed artist. We spoke to Meduza about the making of their eclectic debut LP

The best free VST drum plugins 2023: drum machines, samplers and grooveboxes for budget-friendly beatmaking

By Si Truss published 6 November 23

Top quality free drum synths, ROMplers and percussion plugins

Infekt: "I start off by thinking how I can make the craziest bass sounds, and build everything else around that"

By Andy Price published 1 November 23

We sit down with the bass music behemoth to talk studio secrets, AI and why Bitwig is his DAW of choice

What's it really like to record an album at Abbey Road? We spent a day in the studio with The Clockworks and Bernard Butler to find out

By Andy Price published 1 November 23

RECORDING WEEK 2023: We’ve all dreamt of making a masterpiece at Abbey Road. For this Galway four-piece, the iconic studio became the real-life HQ for the recording of their debut, produced by Bernard Butler

Gregg Kowalsky: "I was feeding all kinds of weird stuff into Ableton's audio-to-MIDI converter. Something just clicked, and I ended up building a whole album around it"

By Andy Price published 31 October 23

The LA-based multi-instrumentalist and producer embraces the unpredictable chaos of generative MIDI data on new album Eso Es

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