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ReFX’s Rippler promises to “emulate acoustic instruments both real and imagined” with its advanced physical modelling engine
Rippler brings together dual-layer physical modelling with subtractive synthesis, deep modulation, effects and performance controls
Flying Lotus to explain his "sketchbook approach" and "where theory helps and where it hurts" in School of Song music-making workshop
The online course will see the Grammy-winning artist cover a number of topics, including Ableton Live techniques, later-life piano learning and how to find your voice as an artist
Kavinsky, the French artist behind Nightcall, dies aged 50
The producer, DJ and synthwave legend was found dead at his Parisian apartment on Tuesday
Beatbox your ideas into reality with Vochlea's DubBox, an app that converts your voice into drum loops
"DubBox is for the beatmaker whose beat is already in their mouth. Beatbox in, finished drum loop out"
Mach Devices' MD-7 is an open-source mini-synth with motorized haptic controls that "talk back"
Those discs look a little familiar...
Ever lost a great idea because you forgot to hit record? GhostTape is here to make sure that never happens again
This app for macOS continuously records up to 60 minutes of audio in a circular buffer in your RAM, so you never miss out when inspiration strikes
How Charli XCX's producers ran a jam session through an AI sampling plugin to make No One Lasts Forever
AG Cook and Finn Keane appeared on the Tape Notes podcast with Charli to talk through the making of three tracks from new project Music, Fashion, Film
Musik Hack launches HyFi, an online mastering platform powered by the “world-class DSP” behind Master Plan
Promising “clear, loud and subtly saturated” masters, HyFi's drag-and-drop mastering service costs as little as $0.99 a track with no subscription – and new signups get 10 free credits
Chase Bliss discontinues the Chompi sampler: "At this specific moment we are not working on or planning any new Chompi products"
There are fewer than 250 units remaining, so if you want a Chompi, now's your chance
This free browser-based sampler turns YouTube into an MPC
Producer Halfpast's retro-themed YPC chops up any YouTube video across the computer keyboard for instant finger-drumming fun
AG Cook and Native Instruments team up for signature synth plugin Super*Saw
A supersaw on steroids, this new soft synth captures Cook’s signature sound, heard on records from Charli XCX, Caroline Polachek and Beyoncé
Suno scraped millions of songs from YouTube, Deezer and stock music libraries, according to hacked data
404 Media reports that in training its models, the AI music generation platform lifted at least "2,013,545 music clips" from YouTube Music alone
Baby Audio's SubCulture is a pitch-tracking bass enhancer designed for "massive low-end"
Baby Audio says SubCulture combines three bass enhancement engines with saturation and compression for "powerful low-end that translates across any speaker setup"
Behringer's AKS Mini is a £99 mini-synth inspired by the EMS Synthi AKS, a classic synth used by Pink Floyd and Brian Eno
Now available for pre-order, Behringer says the AKS Mini inherits the original synth's two-axis joystick and boasts a "faithful reproduction" of its VCOs and VCF
Novation tops off its Launchkey MK4 range with 88-key MIDI controller keyboard
Pianists, rejoice! Novation's popular Launchkey MIDI controller keyboard range gets a full-sized flagship edition
We got an exclusive look at Nopia, the viral synth and "harmony machine" that broke the internet
Nopia's creators visit the MusicRadar HQ to show us what this pastel-coloured "harmony machine" can do ahead of its release later this year
“He’s the Quincy Jones of the rap world”: Hip-hop hitmaker Rogét Chahayed on learning his craft from Dr Dre
The Grammy-nominated producer/songwriter behind songs from Drake, Travis Scott and Bruno Mars opens up about being mentored by one of hip-hop's living legends
Zplane's Peel Stems 2 nearly halves the latency of its real-time stem separation plugin
V2 promises cleaner separation, a redesigned interface and a 49% reduction in processing latency, splitting any track into stems without leaving your DAW
You can now control FL Studio with an agentic AI chatbot from inside the DAW
Image-Line's FL Studio 2026 also brings an redesigned Flex synth, cloud-based project backup, an updated Loop Starter and much more to the popular DAW
"His son actually cleared the sample": James Blake on sampling Leonard Cohen for Death of Love
A highlight from recent album Trying Times, the song also features a sampled recreation of the Titanic's Morse code SOS signal
DAWs for DJs, rotary mixers and the world's first standalone motorized controller: 5 of the coolest pieces of gear we saw at Thomann's DJ Days
We ventured out to rural Germany to check out the latest and greatest in DJ controllers, mixers, software and more at the European gear retailer's DJ-focused trade show
Logic Pro 12.3 is here – and my favourite stock plugin just got even better
Apple updates its flagship DAW with a refresh of Beat Breaker and Sample Alchemy and upgrades the AI-powered Chord ID
UJAM's Retrocraft is an all-in-one multi-effects plugin for lo-fi vintage vibes
Promising to bring the nostalgic character of retro audio gear to your tracks, Retrocraft is equipped with six effects modules and a generous array of hardware emulations
“Apparently that beat was originally for Kanye”: Finneas on the "weird production choices" in a TV theme that's become a modern classic
The Billie Eilish collaborator, solo artist and television composer picked out ten "fascinating and unconventional" moments in music production for the Track Star podcast
