Latest articles by Matt Mullen
Tresor resident Nadia Struiwigh on why she avoids tutorials and keeps things 'loose' in the studio
"Every piece of gear has a character... it's like in a TV show, you have the main character, then you have other people that come in and out"
"In a blind test of 100 musicians, it beat the $200 plugin 3-to-1. Not bad for a free app": AudioKit releases Synth One J6, a free Juno-inspired synth for iOS
"No ads. No subscriptions. No hidden fees. Just an exceptional instrument, freely given to inspire creativity everywhere"
"There's not a shred of evidence on the internet that this band has ever existed": This apparently AI-generated artist is racking up hundreds of thousands of Spotify streams
The Velvet Sundown has no online footprint, a suspiciously artificial artist image and a ChatGPT-generated biography - but somehow has almost 350,000 monthly listeners
Excite Audio and KSHMR team up for South Asian-inspired software instrument based on authentic recordings
"This came out a desire to create the ultimate Indian sample library, using the most talented musicians that I've met over the years"
Universal Audio makes A-Type Multiband Dynamic Enhancer available as a native plugin
Released in May exclusively for Apollo and UAD hardware, A-Type is now available to native users and Spark subscribers
Roland finds inner peace with Mood Pan, an electronic percussion instrument designed to help you "discover the restorative power of music"
Equipped with a selection of meditative sounds that includes handpan, gamelan, sitar and singing bowl, it's a Bluetooth speaker and MIDI controller too
How Daniel Bedingfield's bedroom-produced '00s No. 1 rewrote the rules of pop
Before Billie Eilish, there was Daniel Bedingfield. Here's how Britain's first bedroom popstar made chart history
GForce Software makes FM synthesis simple with Halogen FM
The company's latest software instrument promises "the joy of FM, without the headaches"
“It’s my favourite synth ever”: Jamie xx on the ultra-rare vintage Oberheim that takes "a few days" to program
The producer revealed the gear and techniques behind several tracks from 2024's In Waves in a recent episode of the Tape Notes podcast
This unreleased Korg synth will be making its first live appearance in Floating Points' Glastonbury set
Korg Berlin has confirmed that the Phase8 acoustic synthesizer will feature in Floating Points' performance at Worthy Farm on Friday
"Splice is now built directly into Pro Tools": Avid launches Pro Tools 2025.6 with Splice integration, AI speech-to-text engine and more
Avid teams up with leading sample platform in what the company calls a "game-changing integration bringing millions of sounds into the heart of Pro Tools"
Sonicware's LIVEN Evoke is a "nostalgia-evoking ambient music box" fusing acoustic and electronic sounds
The next synth in the Japanese manufacturer's super-affordable LIVEN series is billed as a "deeply expressive tool for composing cinematic ambient and post-classical music"
Universal Audio's Anthem synth plugin promises to "put the biggest, baddest analogue sounds at your fingertips"
A growling analogue-modelled filter, flexible sequencer and vintage-style modulation effects give UA's new monosynth an edge
Teenage Engineering has designed an electric moped - and it's cheaper than the OP-XY synth
Are they taking us for a ride?
Music Production for Women announces free workshops in London, Dublin, Amsterdam and Berlin
Taking place throughout July, the beginner-oriented events will cover subjects such as beat programming, synthesis and audio effects
"It’s been a tough few years": UK gear retailer PMT closes its doors, makes 96 staff redundant and sells £2.4m of stock to Gear4Music
Just a few months after Brighton-based GAK closed down, another UK musical instrument retailer enters administration
Arturia's Mix DRUMS is an "all-in-one" drum processor that promises punchy, pro-sounding drums without the fuss
Co-developed with producer Emre Ramazanoglu, Mix DRUMS brings together dynamics, distortion, tone-shaping and much more in a one-stop shop for drum mixing
Teenage Engineering's TX-6, TP-7 and CM-15 are back in black
New sleek, matte-black versions of Teenage Engineering's TX-6 mixer, TP-7 field recorder and CM-15 microphone are now shipping
This “world’s first” AI-powered plugin controller could take the headache out of manual MIDI mapping for good
"No menu diving stealing your time. No manual mapping killing your flow. Dialr is always mapped and always ready"
"A tape delay plugin that finally sounds like the real thing": Heritage Audio takes on the legendary Echoplex with its TAPEoPLEX plugin
Favoured by Brian May, Jimmy Page and Joe Satriani, the Echoplex is one of history's most iconic effects units
Arturia launches MiniFreak Vocoder Edition and drops firmware update for existing owners
The new edition of MiniFreak comes in a white/orange paint-job with a detachable 30cm gooseneck mic - but if you already own a MiniFreak, you can still use the new vocoder
Codec, one of our favourite free lo-fi plugins, just got an update
Lese's Codec repurposes a real-time audio coding standard designed for internet voice communications to produce a crunchy, chaotic and digitally degraded sound
"They should’ve been honoured. It would have sounded better than any rubbish song they wrote": The unbelievable story of Aphex Twin's laziest remix
"I just sped the whole song up so it was like a half-second long, which took ages, but I made it into one sound: a snare drum"
