Latest articles by Matt Mullen
James Blake asks to have his name removed from Kanye West's album credits
"My original version is a completely different production in spirit"
"It's the musical equivalent of someone whispering in your ear": Max Richter's SRM Sounds releases ASMR Choir
"A palette of choral and string textures that provides a really special colour to add both a purity and ‘humanness’ to your score"
Suno takes another step into music production with AI step sequencer MILO-1080
MILO-1080 is a 16-track sequencer equipped with a Suno-powered sample generator and subtractive synth engine
“I have severe Gear Acquisition Syndrome”: Deadmau5 shows off his insane synth collection
Deadmau5 walks viewers through an array of rare and vintage synthesizers that would make even the most seasoned collector drool
12 artists on how they beat writer's block and actually finish songs
We’ve spoken to hundreds of music-makers over the years, asking each artist how they decide when a track is well and truly finished. Here’s what they said
Spotify's new SongDNA feature reveals the "complex web of people, stories and inspirations" behind each song
Now rolling out in beta to Premium users worldwide, SongDNA is an interactive map that lets you explore a song's collaborators, samples, interpolations and covers
"It's like being in a toy shop": How Abbey Road is reinventing itself
The historic recording studio is on a mission to inspire the next generation of music-makers
A much-loved reverb plugin that we called "one of the most creative we've come across" is free for a limited time
UVI Sparkverb 1.5 is free for KVR Audio members until April 12th
Klang.io says Transcription Studio is the "world’s first" AI music tool that can transcribe multiple instruments simultaneously
The software promises to convert any recording into sheet music, tab or MIDI
The most exciting synth we played at NAMM 2026 is now available to order
DMNO is a polyphonic, multitimbral hybrid analogue/digital synthesizer from UDO, the British brand behind Super 6 and Super Gemini
"It was literally plugged into Logitech computer speakers”: Jim-E Stack on the lo-fi production behind Bon Iver's Walk Home
Stack opened up the Pro Tools session for SABLE, fABLE highlight Walk Home for Mix with the Masters
iZotope's Tonal Balance Control 3 captures audio directly from Spotify, YouTube and your DAW timeline for fast and intuitive referencing
The next generation of iZotope's analysis tool makes it easier than ever to reference against your favourite tracks
"I knew this device would be controversial": ChatDSP generates instruments and effects in Max for Live from text prompts
Dillon Bastan's latest device has sparked heated debate among the M4L community
"The numbers are going backward": New report finds that 2025 saw "no progress" for women in music
The percentage of women credited as songwriters in the Hot 100 decreased from 18.9% in 2024 to 14.5% in 2025 – a ratio of 5.8 male songwriters to every one woman
"How real can drums feel inside a plugin?": Klevgrand promises to "redefine what a drum sampler can be" with OneShot 2
OneShot 2 features a new Motion Engine designed to create phrases that "breathe and evolve" by morphing through multiple samples, such as cymbal swells, brushed textures or foley elements
“I’ve spent so many thousands of hours wasted on plugins – it just doesn't matter”: Fred Again says all mixing plugins sound the same
"In terms of your reverb, compressor, EQ, all these things – it doesn't matter what you choose. They're all great"
“I have a little bit of a love-hate relationship with my Prophet ’08”: Art School Girlfriend on new project Lean In
Download the stems for Art School Girlfriend's track The Peaks and create your own remix
“A lot of people got a hard drive full of music and they don’t know how to finish… just tell everybody, ‘Hey, that’s what I got – hope you like it!’”: Watch Saba, No ID and Jimmy Douglass build a track from scratch
Universal Audio documents Chicagoan rapper Saba's free-flowing session with two veteran producers
Bitwig Studio 6 is here with improved automation, Clip Aliases and tons of workflow enhancements
Promising users a "big step up", Bitwig Studio 6 builds on core DAW functions to help music-making become faster and more intuitive
Harry Styles outed himself as an unlikely modular synth fan in his new Netflix special, but was all that knob-twiddling for real?
Styles' setup also included a Roland SP-404 MKII sampler, Roland RE-201 Space Echo tape delay unit and a Sequential Prophet-6 analogue synth
"I put it on everything": Jasper Tygner on the Soundtoys plugin behind the "filmic" sound of debut album Blue
We visited Tygner in his London-based studio ahead of the release of his cinematic, rave-inspired new project
“I use it on absolutely everything": Art School Girlfriend on the second-hand mic that shaped the "intimate" sound of new album Lean In
Polly Mackey walks us through the making of The Peaks from her London-based studio
Chompi's latest firmware update turns this cutesy sampler into an "entirely new instrument" with an arpeggiator, sample-slicing and more
Tempo turns Chompi into a groovebox designed for tempo-synced, pattern-based beatmaking
