Here’s how you can download IK Multimedia’s J-60, a Roland Juno-60 synth emulation, for free
It retails for $50, but you can currently have it for nothing if you know where to look
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Producer Ian Kirkpatrick on the bassline for Dua Lipa’s Don’t Start Now: “It’s MIDI, don’t get mad at me! If I could play bass like that, I would!”
"It's a little Bee Gees and a little Daft Punk... a little bit Alan Braxe and Fred Falke"
Behold the ReBirth orchestra, which runs on three vintage iMacs
Look Mum No Computer takes his sonic explorations with Propellerhead’s classic software to another level
BandLab confirms that it plans to discontinue its current free Cakewalk DAW and bring back a new version of Sonar
Company will also release the entry-level Cakewalk Next, with pricing still to be confirmed
5 of the best free guitar amp simulator plugins
Discover the best free guitar VSTs with our pick of no-cost amp and cab sims for guitarists and producers
10 of the best new free plugins we discovered this month
In this month's roundup of the finest freeware the internet has to offer, we've got granular synths, experimental delays and a fantastic free vocoder plugin
Choose a genre and BPM and this online DAW will use AI to make a complete track for you
New version of Amped Studio users artificial intelligence to aid the music creation process, and you can try it now for free
Arturia’s FX Collection 4 lands with an all-new Leslie speaker plugin and emulations of Korg and Lexicon classics
Now could be the time to reboot your effects rack
Propellerhead’s ReBirth is reborn as a hands-on hardware synth, and it’s all thanks to Look Mum No Computer
The master of MIDI controllers gets his teeth into a 25-year-old Roland-cloning classic
Latest music software tuition
How to create the 'perfect fifths' synth pad
Get your fifths and ninths in order as we explore one of the most identifiable pad sounds around
How to use visual metering tools to help you mix
Mixing might be mostly about using our ears, but there are other senses we can bring in too, specifically our eyes
How to work with video in Logic Pro
Logic is one of the most versatile DAWs when it comes to composing music and sound for video content. Here's how to get started
How to use the '3 reverb approach' to nail reverb in almost any mixing scenario
Choosing and adding reverbs can seem daunting, but this simple technique should get you up and running in no time at all
How to recreate the sound of the Solina String Ensemble
We bolster our guide to 15 essential synth sounds with one of the most useful patches in any synthesist's arsenal: synth strings
How to make synth sweep FX for EDM drops
We’ve all heard white noise sweeps with their cutoff frequencies steadily climbing. In this tutorial, we look at a more original take
How to create a classic rave chord stab
A staple of dance music, these short, punchy bursts of sound can provide harmonic and percussive drive in one go
How to make an ambient pad like Jean-Michel Jarre's Oxygene
Create evolving sonic atmospheres using Logic's Alchemy soft synth
How to make a Minimoog-style bass patch
A classic analogue bass patch makes a great jumping-off point for pretty much any monosynth
Latest music software reviews
Caelum Audio Choric review
- £49
- €56
- $59
The British developer aims to put a new spin on a classic effect. We skip to the chorus
Spectrasonics Twisted Trees Sonic Extension review
- $149
If you go down to the woods today, you’ll be surprised to find a sound-designer not so much hugging trees as hitting and twisting them!
Polyverse Supermodal review
- £88
- €98
- $99
By using 27 models – ranging from physical bodies to maths formulae – Supermodal could well be the filter you didn’t know you need
Sonora Cinematic Harmonic Bloom review
- £119
- €139
- $149
Bloom is all about extracting harmonics and chaotic waveforms based on noise… but fortunately, it’s a lot better than that sounds
W.A. Production KSHMR Reverb review
- £40
- €46
- $50
Globally acclaimed music producer KSHMR collaborates with W.A. Production to deliver his first reverb plugin with many distinctive features
JMG Sound Retronaut review
- £77
- €89
- $95
Promising to infuse the crackle of yesteryear into your tracks, Retronaut goes beyond its lo-fi headline to deliver thrilling sound-shaping abilities
Image-Line FL Studio 21 review
- £85 to £409
- €99 to 479
- $93 to $439
FL Studio 21 is not celebrating a birthday, as the previous version did, but is introducing some significant additions to this most popular of DAWs
Apple Logic Pro for iPad review
- £5/49 (month/year)
- €5/49 (month/year)
- $5/49 (month/year)
Does the iPad now have the 'pro' multitouch DAW that it deserves?
Steinberg HALion 7 review
- €349
Steinberg’s do-everything sample-based instrument now does a lot more, is easier on the eye and, importantly, is a lot easier to grapple with
Erica Synths Zen Delay Virtual review
- €99
The Ninja Tune-branded sound-mangler comes to the plugin realm. Can it live up to its hardware counterpart?
