Latest articles by Clovis McEvoy
Native Instruments' Absynth returns – here’s the inside story, with developer Brian Clevinger
The cult classic soft synth is back, 16 years on from its previous iteration. We sit down with Absynth’s creator to hear about the history of this legendary instrument and why its rebirth is the 'best project he’s ever worked on'
“I'm getting on an airplane, I'm listening to a song and it has my sound in it”: How DECAP's Drums That Knock became the must-have sample pack for modern producers
With his astronomically popular samples featuring on hits by the likes of Charli XCX and Kendrick Lamar, DECAP is launching a new plugin that distills years of expertise into an easy-to-use drum production toolkit
“We wanted to make the barrier as low as we could": Sequential on designing the Fourm and continuing Dave Smith's legacy
With premium features and an entry-level price, Fourm is about to bring a whole new demographic into the Sequential family. We sit down with the company's CEO and Product Designer to find out more
“Some of this stuff is harder to get hold of than rare analogue synths”: Why we’re in the midst of a vintage software revival
Meet the musicians that archive, compose and perform with obscure and abandoned music software
“I was frightened, but I was like, ‘ok, big boy pants time'”: Bob Dylan's live sound engineer Jason Frankhouser
The veteran engineer gives us a rare behind-the-scenes insight into mixing sound for one the most well-established live shows on the planet
“I think of it as audio archaeology”: UA CEO Bill Putnam Jr on capturing the spirit of classic gear in plugins
With the launch of a new generation of Apollo interfaces, one of the music tech industry’s most iconic brands shows no signs of slowing down
“‘F**k this song! Ugh! Turn it off!’ That’s what we wanted!”: Is Trent Reznor music's most uncompromising producer?
From the blistering intensity of his 90’s masterpiece, The Downward Spiral, to his iconic film scores, Reznor has carved a singular path through the music industry
“It's awful, it's illegal, and it's bad for our society”: Have AI music generators been trained on your music?
”The outputs are positioned to compete commercially with the very songs they were trained on”: We speak with artists, lawyers, and campaigners about the music industry's battle with AI song generators
