Latest articles by Andy Price
Roland Lamb opens up on inventing new ways of expressing music with ROLI Airwave
Is Airwave the ultimate music learning tool? Roland Lamb thinks so…
Will the rocketing cost of being a musician eventually kill the industry?
A deep dive into the economics of being a music-maker in the 2020s
Backline call on the music industry to respond to widespread mental health issues
Backline mark World Mental Health Day with a manifesto for immediate, collective action
Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava on how the new Studio One integration brings Splice into workflows
Splice's senior figure on how the new DAW integration is the first of many
ROLI unveils the Airwave, an expressive new way of learning and creating using its MPE instruments
Will it really lead to the creation of 'new genres'?
Fans and theory experts unpick Nirvana's About a Girl
"Everything being diatonic is not some sort of requirement or restriction on things sounding good"
"You guys definitely have to be the first band into the Sphere, because this is the future": U2's live sound engineer on how he persuaded Bono and The Edge to be the Las Vegas Sphere's first resident band
"I tried my level best and I couldn't break it" Joe O'Herlihy on the prep behind U2's astounding residency
A new immersive music and dance-based VR game aims to improve mental health in young people
Could EmbodyXR provide the musical and visual therapy that many young people need?
Want 33,000 classic sound effects for free? The BBC expand their enviable archive for musicians and creators
Time to get plundering a massive archive of vintage and classic audio recordings
Are AI audio extenders a slippery slope towards absorbing creatives into an AI paradigm?
Many AI-driven platforms now offer the means to extend your tracks to any length you want, but how legal is its underlying algorithmic training?
Bands are dying. Why? We dig into the data
The decline of the band has become a feverish talking point recently. But what are the real reasons behind the lack of enthusiasm for both starting – and listening to – bands in the 2020s…
Void & Vista's software instruments are "pieces of art for people to make art with"
We sit down with the brains behind Strands and Folds, two Kontakt instruments that caught our attention with a wildly imaginative approach to sound design
“I love figuring out not just what ‘should’ this album be, but what ‘could’ it be”: Katie Tavini on the secrets behind top-class mastering
A ubiquitous name in the world of mastering, Katie Tavini’s intuitive senses and aptitude for bringing out the best in a huge array of music has been rightly praised
Reason's Mattias Häggström: "We’re leaning into what our main strengths are"
We sit down with Reason's Product Manager to find out more about the DAW's latest update and their plans for the future
Jess Camilleri: "MIA was actually my first engineering session!"
From engineering the likes of Rudimental and GoldLink at Strongroom Studios to her career as an MPG award-nominated engineer and producer, Jess Camilleri is one of the recording industry’s most impressive new talents
"I love artists who have a rawness to their sound": Kit Grill on the dangers of 'over-producing'
Kit Grill’s most recent release, Swimming in Honey concludes a journey of bold aural adventuring with the addition of vocals to the mix
Moonilena on hardware vs software and why she loves the "hiss" on her Yamaha TG33
We spoke to the Stockholm-based creative about her technical approach to her aural constructs and the genesis of her captivating new album, Minnet
Cableguys: "Our aim with ShaperBox is to make it easy for any producer to get complex-sounding results, all in one plugin"
We sit down with the developers behind ShaperBox and Kickstart to find out more about their modulation-mad multi-effects plugins
“I broke the cardinal sins of vocal production - five compressors maxed out on a chain”: Iglooghost speaks on his love of Reason, and the seaside town that inspired his chaotic new album
The latest record, Tidal Memory Exo is an uncompromising yet absorbing listen, helmed by one of the most uniquely talented – and unique-sounding – artists we’ve ever spoken to
"It’s the best reverb for the buck, in the world": Composer Jason Graves on his go-to reverb plugin
After scoring Dead Space and Call of Duty, Graves' latest video game project takes him offshore to a monster-infested oil rig
Ray Volpe: “Sometimes I won’t touch Ableton for two months, then I’ll be in there every day for 14 hours a day cranking out four crazy ideas back to back”
We caught up with bass music titan Ray Volpe to discover how he assembles his brand of crowd-pleasing ultra-bangers fully in-the-box…
We sit down with Bitwig for a roundtable discussion to mark ten years of their remarkable DAW
The Bitwig team join us to reflect on a decade of developing the music production software that's redefining the DAW
Kasbo on keeping things simple in the studio and working on his own terms
Birthed from an agonising stress-related hearing loss, and put together in an ABBA-backed prison-turned studio, Kasbo’s third album, The Learning of Urgency is a potent, melody-infused statement from an artist in ascendance
Former Spitfire Audio CEO Will Evans on new music tech company Song Athletics: "We’re making tools for music-makers, but coming from a place of having a broader interest in sound and the love of music and recording"
Since launching in 2023, Song Athletics has released sample packs, a plugin and even a coffee range - but where is the brand headed next?
"On every laptop you have access to every sound you could ever want. That can make creativity hard": Peel
Forging a close bond as two-thirds of international superstars, Foster the People, Sean Cimino and Isom Innis have embarked on a parallel life as Peel. The pair’s debut LP Acid Star showcases the breadth of their unfettered sonic ambitions…