HY-ESG is a free VST/AU trance gate plugin that hinges on a Euclidean sequencer By Ben Rogerson Bedroom Producers Blog and HY-Plugins have cooked up a rhythmic processing treat
Thinking about buying an M1 Mac for music production? Maybe you should wait for the M1X… By Ben Rogerson Leaked specs suggest that the new chip could offer significant improvements
Could Real World Studios’ intimate new Red Room be your perfect music production pleasure palace? By Ben Rogerson Compact studio is designed for smaller-scale projects, with Dolby Atmos coming later this year
Spitfire Audio releases affordable new Abbey Road orchestral libraries for your next blockbuster film soundtrack By Ben Rogerson Woodwinds and Legendary Low Strings join Orchestral Foundations
Get contemporary vocal sounds in real-time using Waves’ Vocal Bender plugin By Ben Rogerson New processor promises Travis Scott, Billie Eilish and Frank Ocean-style sounds in seconds
IK Multimedia’s iRig Pre 2 promises high-quality mic recording wherever you go By Ben Rogerson Now with DSLR compatibility and direct monitoring
What’s it like to be a woman learning music production? A new documentary, In Ctrl, finds out By Ben Rogerson “It can feel like it’s not for you, but it is”
Mutable Instruments goes beyond the Clouds with the Beads Eurorack ‘texture synthesizer’ By Ben Rogerson The successor to an all-time classic module is here
Roland’s Juno-60 synth plugin brings back an ‘80s classic, complete with “odd quirks and charming limitations” By Ben Rogerson Plus, you get the Juno-106 filter and BOSS CE-1 chorus
IK Multimedia is giving you another chance to download Memory-V, its Moog Memorymoog soft synth emulation, for free By Ben Rogerson Get this $50/€60 instrument for nothing
You’d better get your skates on if you want Supreme’s startling new Akai MPC Live II By Ben Rogerson Streetwear brand reveals limited-edition version of the music production box
LANDR Sessions offers video chat and high-quality DAW audio streaming for musicians By Ben Rogerson A better way to communicate with musical collaborators?
Waveform Free 2021: Tracktion says that the “best free DAW” just got even better By Ben Rogerson New workflow and performance features for the cross-platform music production software
Make your sounds go ‘from flaccid to fat’ with producer Jonas Aden’s chunky Biggifier VST plugin By Ben Rogerson It’s all about tweaking the Bigness knob
You can now watch GForce’s Bright Sparks synth documentary for free By Ben Rogerson Film focuses on the US and British electronic music pioneers
Ableton Live 11 release date confirmed, and it’s not too far away By Ben Rogerson New version of the DAW will be released on 23 February
Eplex7 DSP says that its Klerhaim N1 VST synth is more analogue than 99.5% of all others: “do not be confused with marketing BS” By Ben Rogerson Says that they sound “sterile, digital, boring, robotic, uniformly numb and sharp”
The Prodigy to release tell-all documentary film: “This one’s for Keef!” By Ben Rogerson It’ll be directed by long-time collaborator Paul Dugdale
Flux Mini is a free envelope shaping plugin for everything from “simple sidechaining to manic modulation” By Ben Rogerson Grab it now for Mac and iPad
Neil Young producer and audio innovator Elliot Mazer dies, aged 79 By Ben Rogerson He worked on Harvest and helped develop the world’s first all-digital recording system
Novation’s Circuit Tracks could be the portable groovebox that also sits at the heart of your studio By Ben Rogerson Plus, Circuit Rhythm is coming in the summer
Jukeblocks lets you create FL Studio and Ableton Live track templates and convert DAW project files for free By Ben Rogerson Dylan Tallchief offers workflow-boosting services to electronic music producers
We’re spinning out over this tangible MIDI sequencer that looks like a vinyl turntable By Ben Rogerson Orbita is designed to “make music more accessible”
Vollume Control promises to make remote music collaboration “easier and smarter” and works with any DAW By Ben Rogerson New cross-platform app lets you backup and share your projects
Could the UF8 be the SSL DAW controller that you can actually afford? By Ben Rogerson We’re promised premium build quality and workflow-enhancing features at a lower price point