Latest articles by Matt Mullen
Meet AstroLab, Arturia's greatest hits in a stage keyboard: 34 instruments, 10 synth engines and 1300 presets
This 61-key, semi-weighted keyboard takes the best of the company's revered collection of software and puts it on the stage
Arturia teases mysterious extraterrestrial announcement to be revealed at livestream event: "25 years, and beyond"
"A new era awaits, and you're invited to witness its dawn"
Stability AI's music generator can now edit and transform your samples and produce full-length, structured tracks
Now with the ability to process audio uploaded by the user, Stable Audio 2.0 is edging closer to becoming a revolutionary tool for music-makers
Song Athletics drops Sloppy Drums sample pack inspired by J Dilla and Madlib: "Beautifully captured and behind (and before) the beat in all the right ways"
The next sample pack from ex-Spitfire CEO Will Evans' new company is made up of loose and limber drum patterns fit for use in hip-hop and neo-soul
"This assault on human creativity must be stopped": Pearl Jam, Stevie Wonder, Billie Eilish and 200 more artists call for protections against threat of AI
"We must protect against the predatory use of AI to steal professional artists' voices and likenesses, violate creators' rights, and destroy the music ecosystem," reads an open letter from the Artist Rights Alliance
Kelly Moran: "An important aspect of my work is trying to preserve my own humanity, even if I'm using technology to help me do it"
Pianist, producer and Warp Records artist Kelly Moran abandons the prepared piano and extended techniques that defined her early work to duet with a self-playing Yamaha Disklavier on new project Moves in the Field
"Collage is a thousand audio effects in one": Randomize your effects and get unexpected results with this quirky, colourful multi-effects plugin from Kalide
With a unique UI for each effects preset that deliberately avoids explanation, Collage invites artistic experimentation
8 of the best new immersive audio plugins for 2024
GEAR EXPO 2024: Here are our picks of some of the slickest routes to creating and mixing in surround or 3D sound
As easy as MPC: Blipblox myTRACKS is a simplified groovebox for kids (and big kids, too)
Aimed at children as young as three years old, myTRACKS has been "crafted to eliminate complexity and maximize fun"
Google's AI-powered Instrument Playground lets you play and sample over 100 instruments from across the globe: "Have you ever played the Dizi from China?"
Initially launched in December, the browser-based tool is now available in the UK
"Hands down the best Amiga emulation I've ever used!": This old-school sampling plugin gets you the retro sound of the Commodore Amiga for only £10
PotenzaDSP's Amigo Sampler nails the "authentic crunch" of the Amiga and offers classic Akai-style time-stretching too
Aodyo's Loom is a "multi-dimensional" MPE MIDI controller with four different performance modes, and you can even design your own
Available in 2-octave and 3-octave versions, Loom has already surpassed its €50,000 target on Kickstarter
Minimal marvel or beige and boring? Vongon's Replay is likely to divide synth-heads with its unique aesthetic
This new virtual analogue synth from Vongon sounds great, but does it put style over substance?
James Blake launches Vault, a direct artist-to-fan streaming platform for unreleased music: "The concept of subscribing to an artist directly can change the game"
"I wanted to find a way for musicians to make money directly from the music they make"
"I'm just a soul trapped in this circuitry": Listen to a scarily realistic AI-generated blues song produced by "ChatGPT for music"
Suno is an AI music generator developed by alumni of Meta and TikTok, and its latest update is astonishingly sophisticated
Minimal Audio flexes its modulation muscles with Flex Chorus, a 24-voice, multi-band chorus plugin with two unique modes
Flex Chorus is capable of producing everything from scene-stealing unison effects to subtle stereo enhancement
Watch MPE unlock new dimensions of performance in this demo video for Phase Plant and Expressive E's new preset banks
Phase Plant Expressive Suite is a collection of 400 presets designed to explore the synth's expressive possibilities through MPE control
Punk Labs' OneTrick Keys is a lo-fi keys plugin based on a "vintage" physical modelling algorithm developed in the '90s
With six onboard effects, this synth plugin has more than one trick up its sleeve
AlphaTheta pivots from Pioneer DJ with high-end rotary mixer, the first under its new brand name
Merging premium analogue sound with digital functionality, Euphonia features a transformer circuit developed with Rupert Neve Designs
Loukeman: "I put a pitch-shifter on the master bus. I love how it glues everything together and f*cks everything up"
Toronto-based producer Loukeman talks his new project Sd-2, sampling techniques and unconventional effects processing
Neil Young returns to Spotify as other streaming services begin hosting "disinformation podcasts": "I cannot leave all those services because my music would have no outlet to music lovers at all"
Young also urged Spotify to improve sound quality, telling the platform to "start with a limited hi-res tier and build from there"
Can James Blake really fix the music industry? Artist teases "solution" to issues addressed in viral tweets: "The brainwashing worked and now people think that music is free"
The British artist says an announcement will be made on March 20th
iZotope takes Trash out of the trash and relaunches fan-favourite distortion plugin with free Lite version
The new version of Trash has been equipped with an envelope follower and a "scream filter", along with a redesigned interface and parameter randomization
