Latest articles by Matt Mullen
“Logic is great but I’m emotionally trapped in Ableton”: Grimes on her DAW of choice and how plugins have "entirely restored" her love of music production
"Are there like plugin awards? They literally make magic real - it's insane"
Behringer's Phara-O Mini is a clone of the Korg Volca Keys that's inexplicably themed around ancient Egypt
The design may also look familiar to fans of the Make Noise 0-Coast
Dubreq's Stylosette mini-synth could be the perfect stocking-filler for the musician in your life
From the makers of the Stylophone, Stylosette is a cassette-shaped synthesizer with a touch-capacitive keyboard and a surprising amount of connectivity
“It’s better in every way. The second version took what the first could do and made it five times as useful”: Waleed on Digitakt II, Ableton Live and overcoming creative block
Waleed's 2021 debut was championed by the likes of Four Tet and Ben UFO. After wrestling with the pressure of a follow-up, he's rediscovered the joy of music-making and released an EP that's one of this year's best
Spotify says streams of drum 'n' bass are up 94% over the last three years
The streaming service has released a mini-documentary, DnB: In for Life, that explores the history of the genre and its impact on the wider music scene
The Blofeld lives twice as Waldorf releases plugin version of its popular hardware synth
The 24-voice multitimbral synth is capable of wavetable and virtual analogue synthesis and can be used to control its hardware counterpart
Arturia's Tape J-37 is an emulation of the classic Studer J37 tape machine
Arturia says Tape J-37 delivers the "iconic warmth, harmonic richness and natural compression" characteristic of Studer's legendary multitrack tape recorder
Behringer releases LM Drum, a $399 LinnDrum clone that it's calling "the rebirth of a legend"
LM Drum combines the LinnDrum's vintage sounds with a host of contemporary features that includes sample recording, transient shaping and enhanced connectivity
Here's how to get your hands on Orchid, Tame Impala's ultra-hyped chord-generating synthesizer
The first batch of Orchids will go on sale Wednesday December 18th
“The OP-1 has been dethroned”: Reverb publishes its annual list of the best-selling electronic music gear
The online gear marketplace has delivered its yearly round-up of the most-purchased synths, drum machines, samplers and sequencers, but who came out on top?
Behringer says it's squeezed the sound of a Roland Jupiter-8 into a $99 portable package with the JT Mini analogue synth
But where is the JT-16?
Bibio on how he made his biggest track - and why he's still using lo-fi recording techniques 15 years later
Stephen Wilkinson reveals how he recorded Lovers' Carvings - the song that paid for his five-figure Rupert Neve Designs console - using a budget set-up in a bedroom studio
"It's staying in my DAW": Disclosure's Guy Lawrence loves Serato's bonkers new multi-effects plugin
Squeezing 45 effects into a single plugin, Hex FX promises to "provide producers with every effect they could need in one place"
"This should have been built 100 years ago - it may well become the story of 21st-century music": Hans Zimmer on the next-gen synth he used for the Dune: Part Two score
Zimmer has appeared in a documentary for Expressive E that explores how the Osmose was used in Dune's score
“The quest for clarity and loudness can only go so far”: Bibio on his career-long fascination with tape recording, budget samplers and vintage pedals
Stephen Wilkinson talks us through the studio techniques behind the latest edition of his Phantom Brickworks project, the gear behind his biggest song and his enduring quest to unite lo-fi and hi-fi
Behringer proves the haters wrong and releases Wave, the PPG Wave clone that's been four years in the making
Days after responding to "vaporware" critics, Behringer announces that its recreation of an "'80s icon" is now shipping
Behringer hits back at critics accusing the company of only making "vaporware" in defensive social media post
The synth and effects manufacturer says it will be returning to NAMM after ten years away and plans to launch "another 6 to 8 groundbreaking products" before the end of the year
Producers for Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign say they haven't been paid for work on Vultures 1 and 2
The situation is indicative of a wider problem in the industry, as producers are increasingly going without compensation until long after projects receive an official release
Yum Audio Ember review
Yum Audio's Ember is a "vibe-driven" soft synth that promises analogue warmth, vintage textures and rich, characterful sound - and actually delivers
Cyber Monday plugin deals 2024: Last chance software savings
Cyber Monday is over but you can still save big on VSTs and music software
British band robbed at gunpoint on first day of US tour - before they'd even "played a note"
Sports Team are touring the US in promotion of their forthcoming third album Boys These Days
Black Friday plugin deals 2024: Black Friday is over, but there are still plenty of deals to get your hands on
We round up all the best plugin deals that are still hanging around post-Black Friday
This "absurd and over-the-top" distortion plugin transforms a glitch into an audio effect - and it's absolutely free
Newfangled Audio's Obliterate started life as a conventional filter before a bug in the code caused some unique-sounding distortion - which the developer packaged into a free plugin
