Latest articles by Si Truss
Best beginner DJ mixers 2025: The best entry-level club, scratch and rotary DJ mixers to get you started
Get to grips with the basics of mixing and scratching with these cheap and entry-level mixers
12 new instruments and effects you need to know about from Superbooth 2025
New synths, drum machines, effects and oddities from the Berlin synth expo
Superbooth 2025: all the latest synth news from Berlin, as it happened
Knob tweakers, assemble!
“Designed to become the brain of your setup”: 1010music Bento is an all-in-one DAW in a box
Superbooth 2025: The new flagship sampler features a touchscreen, onboard battery and plenty of I/O
One of our favourite instruments of 2024 gets even better as Polyend adds a sample engine to Synth
Superbooth 2025: “I’ve always admired how Andy Stott builds tracks from just a few carefully shaped samples and his minimal, textural approach influenced the design”
Ableton drops 1.5 update for Move, adding sample slicing, improved MIDI I/O and a new Auto-Filter device
Superbooth 25: The standalone Live companion gets its biggest overhaul since launch – join the public beta now
Frap Tools’ debut polysynth Magnolia might be the most exciting new instrument of 2025
Superbooth 2025: The forthcoming Italian synth can do 8-voice through-zero FM, wavefolding and more – and comes equipped with a poly aftertouch keyboard
"I have a very emotional relationship with my machines”: How Djrum made one of 2025’s best electronic albums
The UK producer on finding inspiration in the piano, his studio tools, and the techniques behind his unique DJ sets
“When I started I didn't really know what a producer was.”: Fraser T Smith on the definition of a ‘producer’
The award-winning producer on his Future Utopia project and the need to be a ‘Swiss Army knife’ in the studio
Charli XCX's Brat mastering engineer Idania Valencia on her go-to plugins and the threat of AI
The Mexican mastering engineer on working on Charli XCX's Grammy-winning behemoth and why she works entirely with software
Watch UK electronic artist Lawrence Hart build a track from scratch in his hardware-stuffed studio
The Domino-signed producer walks us through the workflow behind his debut album, Come In Out the Rain
“I have an original 909 – every time I use it I feel like I’m ruining it”: Riva Starr's studio essentials
The prolific Italian house and techno producer shows us the gear behind Keep Me on the Dancefloor
"I really like Equinox – it’s a shame it's priced for the post-production market”: iZotope Equinox review
iZotope spin Exponential Audio tech into a top end reverb – it's great, but you'll want to try to get it at a sale price
With its latest free update, Ableton has finally turned Note into the app I always wanted it to be
Offline MIDI editing makes Ableton’s iPhone and iPad app more of a must-have iOS companion for Live users
“Excels at unique modulated timbres, atonal drones and microtonal sequences that reinvent themselves each time you dare to touch the synth”: Soma Laboratories Lyra-4 review
This unique synth built around ‘organismic’ principles is so much fun, you just might want to buy two
“Entrance Song is a massive 808 sub and a 909 kick. Those two shouldn’t work together - I’m not sure they were even in key”: Eats Everything on his ever-changing approach to production and DJing
We visit Dan Pearce in the studio to hear about his new project We Lost Ourselves and Found a Family and dig deep into the studio techniques behind some of his biggest tracks
Ranked: Moog’s semi-modular ‘Mother’ synths from worst to best
We put DFAM, Subharmonicon, Mother-32, Spectravox and Labyrinth head-to-head – and argue about the best combinations
In the studio with Nitin Sawhney and Polygon Live: Preparing an immersive audio live set in the
In the studio as the Ivor Novello awarded producer prepares for the UK's biggest spatial audio festival
DJ with Apple Music lets you use your subscription with Serato, Rekordbox, Engine DJ and more
Users can now access over 100 million tracks in their DJ software of choice – albeit with a few caveats
“I'm always starting sessions and not finishing them, I don't see that as unproductive”: Djrum talks creativity
Watch the acclaimed UK musician break down a standout track from last year’s Meaning’s Edge EP
How a 6am WhatsApp from a rave icon provided the concept for Eats Everything’s genre-bending new album
Watch the UK DJ and producer break down the making of We Lost Ourselves and Found a Family
"V2 is one of the most powerful synths on the market": Elektron Digitone II review
Elektron's hardware FM synth was already a modern classic – but this update is still a significant upgrade
Ezra Collective’s Joe Armon-Jones on why he created his Aquarii Studios and his dub mixing technique
Watch the UK keyboard player and producer discuss his new studio and ambitious double LP, All The Quiet
