Latest articles by Ben Rogerson
Rare backstage footage shows Amy Winehouse covering a classic Beatles song at Glastonbury
The then 20-year-old star performed a rearranged version of All My Loving in the year that she shared the bill with Paul McCartney
“It’s MIDI, don’t get mad at me!": Dua Lipa's producer on the bassline for Don't Start Now
"It's a little Bee Gees and a little Daft Punk... a little bit Alan Braxe and Fred Falke"
"Casio has created a high-quality digital piano that provides real bang for your buck, and it’s managed to do it with a certain level of sophistication and style": Casio AP-750 Digital Home Piano review
Casio blends innovative features and traditional looks as it aims to create another mid-range winner
“The Beatles are the main thing that was in my ears when I was a child": Billie Eilish names the Beatles song she wishes she’d written
Billie Eilish also praises brother Finneas as she discusses the making of Lunch
Give Splice one of your own loops and it will now use AI to find a compatible stack of sounds to go with it
Feed it an idea and it’ll add more parts automatically
Baby Audio’s new Humanoid plugin promises “extreme hard tuning” and vocal transformation
An intentionally over-the-top pitch corrector that “transforms singers of any style and ability into their best synthetic selves”
Google’s DeepMind 'V2A' AI can create soundtracks for videos from pixels and text prompts
If you currently write music for picture, you might want to stop reading now
A pro keyboard player remakes Sabrina Carpenter's Espresso having never heard it before
It’s time for another shot of the song of the summer
"I’ve gotten so lazy because I sing with Auto-Tune all the time," says Charli XCX
“That’s why I only do rap at karaoke,” she says. “Because people are like ‘isn’t she a singer?’ And I’m like, well yeah, but haven’t you heard of Auto-Tune?”
Behringer is bringing back a legendary ‘90s analogue filter/envelope follower
The company claims that it’s “collaborating closely with the original designer to ensure its authenticity and quality”
“We're missing our commander in chief”: Wendy & Lisa on performing Purple Rain without Prince
“We needed him to conduct, so it's a little hard”
Robert Margouleff recalls the first time Stevie Wonder got his hands on the TONTO synth
Margouleff also says that he had to talk Wonder out of giving Superstition to Jeff Beck
"Who makes albums anymore, anyway?" Billy Joel on why he won’t be releasing another LP
"Who makes albums anymore, anyway?" he asks
"Turn knobs until it sounds good”: Snarky Puppy’s Justin Stanton's Synth 101
Want to learn the basics from a pro? Now’s your chance
The 'workflow-focused' Reason 13 is here with new synth and ‘space delay’ devices
The new version of the DAW and plugin is now available
Sabrina Carpenter heaps praise on Jack Antonoff and has a 3-word response to his critics
“He heard some of the stuff that I was working on for this album, and we just started to make magic”
Max Martin confirmed as the producer of Coldplay’s new album, Moon Music
The album’s physical release is said to set “new sustainability standards”
“So many people hate this thing”: Musician explains why he thinks the DX7 gets a bad rap
It’s all because of that FM electric piano, reckons Pierre Piscitelli
Behringer says that recreating and enhancing the Prophet-5 is “extraordinarily complex”
“Recreating this synthesizer was no small feat,” says the company
AudioThing’s Wurly electric piano plugin uses both samples and physical modelling
Company takes a hybrid approach to tackling the sounds of the 200 and 200a
New Ableton podcast to “challenge the myth" that creativity is something that not everyone has
Each episode features an artist discussing their creative strategies
“She’s incredibly talented”: Hear Paul Weller covering Billie Eilish’s What Was I Made For?
“That’s such a beautiful song and the melody’s incredible - and the words. I think it’s just a great tune”
"Instantly, I knew it was the best thing I'd ever been a part of": The story of I Can't Make You Love Me
“There was an article in the newspaper about a guy,” says songwriter Mike Reid. “He lost his wife and he lost his family and he got himself in trouble and the phrase was ‘well, you can’t make a woman love you if she don’t’”
