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 love writing about the tools and techniques we use to make it.
Latest articles by Matt Mullen

By Matt Mullen Published
The popular DAW controller opens up to hybrid and DAWless set-ups thanks to 5-pin MIDI I/O

By Andy Price Published
We take a look at the vintage gear-packed home studio of Blue May - the environment where Lily Allen created West End Girl

By Matt Mullen Published
"When you are in love, everything feels more intense, more alive, more beautiful. This is exactly what Love 2 does to sound"

By Matt Mullen Published
KeyStep 37 Mk2 brings many of the new features from the recently released KeyStep Mk2 over to its 37-key big brother

By Matt Mullen Published
ProducerAI is a chatbot that generates songs, album art, music videos and even music-making apps

By Matt Mullen Published
The artist reflects on her journey from bedroom beatmaker to chart-topping producer

By Matt Mullen Published
The Big Nessie is a free Kontakt instrument that gives producers "warped percussive textures, tonal fragments and experimental rhythms to play with"

By Matt Mullen Published
“These freezers are live on BBC Radio 1 right now”

By Matt Mullen Published
Designed to be fast, intuitive and idiot-proof, this affordable multi-effects plugin is a quick-and-dirty tool for spicing up your vocals

By Matt Mullen Published
This groundbreaking piece of software is a fun, playful and accessible way for anybody to generate unexpected chords, melodies and arpeggios with nothing more than a humble mouse

By Matt Mullen Published
Finn Keane says his deliberately "bad, raspy playing" lent a rough and textured sound to the film's evocative music

By Matt Mullen Published
"I wrote the original Filter Delay for Live 1, released in 2001. Recently, I rediscovered it and wanted to add a few more options that were missing"

By Matt Mullen Published
“We have to use the low pressure sensor. Which means to play it, you must suck”

By Matt Mullen Published
Spice up your tone with Behringer's take on this boutique '90s gem

By Matt Mullen Published
"AI is great, generative AI not so much; but we need to stop idiots like this from abusing it"

By Matt Mullen Published
20 years on from his untimely passing, we decode the genius of the revered producer that redefined rhythm as we know it

By Matt Mullen Published
Bringing together the best bits of the SH-5, SH-7 and SH-3A with an array of modern enhancements, the plugin is a love letter to Roland's SH series

By Matt Mullen Published
The next Kontakt instrument in the Primaries series is a "full-spectrum collection of uniquely expressive woodwind articulations" that "captures the physical friction of the woodwind family"

By Matt Mullen Published
Just a few days after unveiling its Juno-60 clone, Behringer has dropped another affordable recreation of an '80s classic

By Matt Mullen Published
After teasing the JN-80 at NAMM, Behringer's affordable take on the vintage classic is finally here

By Matt Mullen Published
Chowning's discoveries inspired the Yamaha DX7 and went on to define a new era of popular music

By Matt Mullen Published
The Stem Separator plugin is exclusively available to LALAL.AI Pro tier subscribers

By Matt Mullen Published
Created by developer Jonas Eriksson, Tape Fiasco is one of the most powerful free plugins we've come across in months
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