Enter a track in Abbey Road’s music production competition and win a feedback session with Brockhampton’s Romil Hemnani By Ben Rogerson It’s time to show off your skills
Zoom’s heavy-duty H8 is a multitrack recorder, podcasting studio and more By Ben Rogerson Everything is driven from a touchscreen interface
Amped Studio becomes the first online DAW to support VST plugins By Ben Rogerson You can now use your favourite effects and instruments in your web browser
Should the iRig Keys 2 Mini be your next portable MIDI keyboard? By Ben Rogerson 25 keys, USB power, MIDI I/O and an audio output
Download IK Multimedia’s $100 AmpliTube Metal software for free: heavy guitar amps and effects for all By Ben Rogerson ProCo, Electro-Harmonix, Digitech, BOSS and Mesa/Boogie models are all included
Spitfire Audio’s Westworld Scoring Competition descends into bitterness and acrimony as Hans Zimmer says of winner’s critics: “I wouldn’t want to work with a single one of you” By Ben Rogerson Here’s what happened when a composer made HBO’s blockbuster TV series sound like it’s set in the Mushroom Kingdom
4 classic Roland ‘80s synths are coming to the Zenology plugin: the JX-8P, SH-101, Juno-106, and Jupiter-8 By Ben Rogerson They’re compatible with your Jupiter-X and Xm hardware, too
NI’s Stradivari Violin is a solo string instrument that’s been “almost 300 years in the making” By Ben Rogerson A sampled version of a rare Antonio Stradivari violin that was made in 1727
The Neumann V402 might be 2020’s most desirable mic preamp By Ben Rogerson It’s coming this summer, although you might not be able to afford it
Get Daft Punk and Herbie Hancock’s vocoder of choice with the X201 plugin By Ben Rogerson Rare Sennheiser VSM201 was also used to create classic sci-fi sounds
Cassette Roads is a free VST electric piano plugin that sounds like it was recorded on an ‘80s tape deck in your bedroom By Ben Rogerson A lo-fi instrument that can be used to play “vaporwave lullabies”
Dreadbox and Sinevibes’ drop the super-cute Typhon analogue synth By Ben Rogerson Synth developer and plugin specialist join forces for a compact analogue/digital hybrid
ChordPotion 2 is a MIDI effect plugin that can magic up something new out of your chord progressions By Ben Rogerson Take a dose and create harmonic phrases
Output turns up the heat with Thermal, an 'interactive' multi-stage distortion plugin By Ben Rogerson Hands-on workflow is designed to encourage creativity
MeldaProduction’s MonasteryGrand is a free multi-gigabyte piano for your DAW By Ben Rogerson Get this carefully-sampled instrument for nothing
ElectroNylon puts an acoustic guitar and electric piano in one VST plugin, and you can morph between them By Ben Rogerson Get busy with some realtime spectral transformation
iZotope Stutter Edit 2 lets you create BT-style glitch effects with one button By Ben Rogerson A simplified workflow and new effects equal “instant inspiration”
Dave Smith’s Tempest drum machine has been “retired”, but new products are on the way By Ben Rogerson Smith and Roger Linn’s classic beatmaker goes out of production
5 things that music makers need to know about Apple’s switch from Intel to silicon processors By Ben Rogerson What does it mean for DAWs, plugins and the iPad Pro?
Native Instruments: “We haven’t done enough to address the issues of systemic racism, bias, and inequality” By Ben Rogerson Company lays out plans to improve diversity and inclusion
The VB-Cable audio router comes to the Mac and you can download it for free By Ben Rogerson Connect one audio app to another
Apple to ditch Intel processors in the Mac in favour of new Apple silicon power By Ben Rogerson Logic Pro X has already been updated, but what does this mean for your DAW and plugins?
Prince’s personal Yamaha DX7 synth defies expectations to sell for more than $70,000 By Ben Rogerson Notebook of lyrics and sketches raises a whopping $30,502
Jean-Michel Jarre just performed live in virtual reality for the first time By Ben Rogerson In the era of COVID-19, could VR gigs be the way forward?
Obsession is a “deep and realistic” Oberheim OB-Xa VST plugin synth emulation By Ben Rogerson Synapse Audio is the latest developer to throw its OB hat in the ring
