Pioneer’s flagship CDJ-3000 promises “a new world of creative possibilities” in the DJ booth By Ben Rogerson The most advanced CDJ yet comes with a new MPU and multiple feature enhancements
Transmutator is a less boring kind of crossfader plugin that’s designed for producers as well as DJs By Ben Rogerson Blend between tracks in 16 different ways
High Score is a nostalgic ‘80s chiptune soft synth designed by a former Moog Music engineer By Ben Rogerson David Molnar wants you to put some coins in the slot on Kickstarter
IK Multimedia’s free Classic Clipper mastering plugin can “tame unruly peaks” in your mix By Ben Rogerson It can also be used to generate harmonic saturation
Waves’ Kaleidoscopes plugin is a suite of modulation effects that you can play like an instrument By Ben Rogerson Trigger phaser, flanger, chorus and tremolo effects in real-time
GLASYS and T-Pain’s cover of a classic Super Metroid track is a wild synth ride back to 1994 By Ben Rogerson There’s no new game in sight, but this might tide you over
First look: NI announces Maschine+, a standalone groovebox with WiFi, Massive and Ableton Link By Ben Rogerson Finally, Maschine moves away from the computer: here's how it all works
Arturia’s KeyStep 37 is a MIDI keyboard that encourages creativity but won’t break the bank By Ben Rogerson Play, sequence, compose and perform with your software and hardware synths
Need a low-cost AUv3 Grand Piano for iPhone and iPad? Here you go By Ben Rogerson Pablo Lopez’s CPU-friendly instrument can also be used standalone
Porter Robinson was inspired to make electronic music by Dance Dance Revolution: “It really changed my life” By Ben Rogerson Konami’s rhythm game was a gamechanger for the US producer
Here’s how you can get the Chinese orchestral sounds from Disney’s Mulan soundtrack in your DAW By Ben Rogerson Orchestral Tools’ Phoenix Orchestra features the instruments used in Harry Gregson-Williams’ score
As it celebrates its 20th anniversary, a jazz pianist has reimagined Radiohead’s entire Kid A album By Ben Rogerson Rick Simpson says he wanted to honour the band that became his "obsession"
Kush Audio says that its new Silika compressor plugin is “sonically identical” to analogue hardware By Ben Rogerson Is the analogue vs digital debate now irrelevant?
Free Waves plugin: here’s how to download mix engineer Manny Marroquin’s $99 Tone Shaper for nothing By Ben Rogerson Sign up for a Waves account and you’re good to go
DJ Swivel’s Spread plugin makes it easy to add stereo width By Ben Rogerson Dial in the processing with just one knob
Behringer aims to leave its mark on the podcasting market with the Bigfoot USB microphone By Ben Rogerson Plug-n-play mic can also be used for streaming and general home recording
iZotope’s RX 8 is here and ready to “solve the unsolvable in audio” By Ben Rogerson Restoration software can now fix up your guitar recordings and sort out wow and flutter
“The Roland Jupiter-6 is amazing”: a synth geek shows you why the the dark horse of the Jupiter family deserves more love By Ben Rogerson Take a deep dive into Roland’s 1983 classic
UDO Audio’s stunning Super-6 synth is finally here: “Experiment, play, learn, and, hopefully, love it like we do!” By Ben Rogerson One of the most eagerly awaited keyboards of the year has landed
John Frusciante to release ‘90s-style breakbeat, hardcore and jungle album dedicated to his cat: “She loved music” By Ben Rogerson "I don't have that interest in singing or writing lyrics like I used to,” he says
DJ Erick Morillo found dead at his Miami home aged 49 By Ben Rogerson He scored a global hit with I Like To Move It in 1994
Native Instruments goes back to Guitar Rig as it announces Komplete 13 By Ben Rogerson NI’s big-value bundle update could be lucky for some
Yamaha’s new PSR models promise to ‘raise the bar’ in the portable home keyboard market By Ben Rogerson PSR-E373 and PSR-EW310 will be fighting for your Christmas dollar
Newfangled Audio and Eventide’s Pendulate is a free VST synth plugin that’s ready to cause chaos in your DAW By Ben Rogerson West Coast-inspired instrument can be downloaded now
Teenage Engineering is releasing a ‘magical’ new product this month, but what is it? By Ben Rogerson Speculation mounts as company says that its new “apparatus” is “great for the outdoors”
