Matt Mullen
I'm MusicRadar's Tech Editor, working across everything from product news and gear-focused features to artist interviews and tech tutorials. I love electronic music and I'm perpetually fascinated by the tools we use to make it. When I'm not behind my laptop keyboard, you'll probably find me behind a MIDI keyboard, carefully crafting the beginnings of another project that I'll ultimately abandon to the creative graveyard that is my overstuffed hard drive.
Latest articles by Matt Mullen
This free plugin brings AI voice modelling to your DAW
By Matt Mullen published
Voice-Swap's new plugin can be used to create AI models of your voice to share with collaborators
Stadium-sized vulnerability and synth-led synchronicity: Loyle Carner and LCD Soundsystem at Forwards Festival
By Matt Mullen, Si Truss published
Four Tet, Underworld, CMAT and more joined a diverse line-up at one of the most talked-about events in Bristol's cultural calendar
Channel your inner Phil Collins with Solid State Logic's new GateVerb non-linear reverb plugin
By Matt Mullen published
Recreate the iconic gated reverb sound that defined the '80s
"Re-engineered to look, feel, and play like an instrument": Novation unveils Launchkey Mk4 MIDI controller keyboard range
By Matt Mullen published
Six new models compatible with all major DAWs have enjoyed a comprehensive redesign, with OLED screens and pads equipped with polyphonic aftertouch
"We are going to celebrate what brings together the most people on the planet - sport and electronic music": Jean-Michel Jarre to headline the 2024 Paralympics Closing Ceremony
By Matt Mullen published
Cassius, Alan Braxe, Breakbot and Martin Solveig will also be performing in a stacked line-up of 24 acts
“The house didn’t feel terrifying so much as sad… but that could just be my own insanity”: How Nine Inch Nails recorded a Platinum-selling album at a murder scene
By Matt Mullen published
A macabre masterpiece recorded at the site of a gruesome killing, NIN's The Downward Spiral harnessed the era’s rapidly advancing music technology to bring Trent Reznor’s twisted vision to life
Arturia's KeyLab MIDI controller upgraded to mk3 with new keybed, bigger screen and touch-sensitive controls
By Matt Mullen published
The French manufacturer's flagship MIDI controller keyboard gets an overhaul with 49- and 61-key versions of KeyLab mk3
Clean Bandit on the Rather Be synth sound: "It's just an Ableton preset"
By Matt Mullen published
Clean Bandit's Jack Patterson shows you how to cook up the synth patch from the group's 3x Platinum 2014 hit Rather Be
Roland designer Atsushi Hoshiai reveals the origin of the TR-909's sounds
By Matt Mullen published
"Mr. 909" reveals the story behind the legendary drum machine's hi-hats and cymbals in an interview with Attack Magazine
"Apple leaked it so I can say it": Flying Lotus reveals he wrote two iPhone ringtones
By Matt Mullen published
The producer recorded the Daybreak and Chalet ringtones, which have shipped with every iPhone since iOS 17
"Professional-quality recordings with minimal effort": Shure's new SM4 microphone aims to simplify home recording
By Matt Mullen published
Shure says the SM4 will deliver pro sound regardless of your setup, environment or experience
Melodic resonators, tube saturators and distortion-laced reverbs: 5 of the coolest free plugins we discovered this month
By Matt Mullen published
The latest and greatest freebies that we deem worthy of adorning your channel strips and clogging up your hard drives
Universal Audio is giving the $199 Century Tube Channel Strip plugin away for free - but not for long
By Matt Mullen published
"Get warm, vintage sounds from sterile-sounding digital tracks"
"Oh my God, that's four Splice sample loops on top of each other!": Afrojack on Fred Again..
By Matt Mullen published
"The people appreciate the melody and the composition - they don't appreciate the guy who put four samples on top of each other"
Aphex Twin DJ'd at a friend's wedding
By Matt Mullen published
Reports suggest that James played the set as a wedding gift, with Luke Vibert also performing
The NAMM Show will return in 2025 with an expanded five-day program: "The show continues to evolve based on our members’ needs"
By Matt Mullen published
The beefed-up program taking in more workshops, talks, educational events and networking opportunitie
UDO's Super 8 synth is now available to order
By Matt Mullen published
The Super 8 is a slimmed-down Super Gemini with (almost) everything we loved about that synth - and a cheaper price tag
Play God with presets: Dillon Bastan makes sound design evolutionary with this innovative Max for Live device
By Matt Mullen published
Breed multiple presets and mutate their sonic DNA to create new sounds, then choose which presets survive and pass on their genes to the next generation
"I got the OP-1 when it first came out - I remember thinking, 'this is all I need now'": Richie Culver on the Teenage Engineering OP-1
By Matt Mullen published
Culver's mangled samples and distorted textures paint a monochrome backdrop for his grimly evocative spoken-word
Physical Audio upgrades its Preparation physical modelling synth with extra effects, LFOs and a new modelled object
By Matt Mullen published
Prepare to hear some experimental sounds as Physical Audio unleashes Preparation 2
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