Arturia's V4.0 MicroFreak firmware update adds WaveUser synth engine and 64 new presets
Producers can now upload custom wavetables into MicroFreak via the MIDI Control Centre
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Paleman: "I was making dubstep all day every day on Reason, inspired by DMZ and Burial. It was a magic time"
Calum Lee shows us around his attic studio space and drops three genius tips for creative production
Dune's sound designers reveal how they created the sound of the sandworms
The sound team stuck a microphone in an editor's mouth to produce the sound of the sandworm swallowing an alien vehicle
Native Instruments celebrates 25th anniversary with new free instrument and limited-edition hardware
NI is releasing a free KONTAKT instrument that gives users access to classic presets taken from 37 instruments across their history
Ableton releases Extended Sounds Pack curated by Modeselektor
The production toolkit is made up of over 2000 samples from the most sought-after pieces of equipment in their studio
Boyz Noize: "I’m attracted to making extreme decisions and f*cking with people"
Alex Ridha’s fifth Boys Noize album aggressively explores the schism between soaring melodies and hard, atonal beats. Danny Turner reveals his modular approach
Focusrite's FAST Verb uses AI to dial in reverb fast
Their machine learning algorithms automatically generate a suitable reverb for the sounds you're processing
Jon Hopkins timed his new ambient record to last the length of a ketamine trip
"This kind of therapy is going to be legal and widespread, and you need to have music for it [...] there is a frontier here – a new genre"
M-Audio Oxygen Pro Mini review
- £100
A quality mini-key keyboard coupled with plenty of performance features should be a winning combo
Lone: "You could take everything away from me but the laptop and I'm confident I could make interesting music quite happily for the rest of my life"
Matt Cutler's releasing his first album in five years. The producer joined us to talk through how he produces his technicolour, rave-adjacent electronica
Rob Papen updates his classic Predator synth plugin to version 3, but is it still worth hunting down?
Hybrid analogue/wavetable synth gets a redesigned interface and new features
Back to the '80s: how to capture an '80s sound in your home studio
Recreate the sound of the decade that brought us synth-pop, new wave and glam metal
Spitfire Audio shifts gears with Trinz Colours PST, a new drill sample library
It’s the first release from its Quality Music Freak division
Behringer takes on the Moog DFAM with the Edge semi-modular percussion synth
A pink percussive partner for Crave
Bill behaviour: Benn Jordan entices ducks with food and gets them to play a free-range jazz beat on his MPC
Anyone fancy some IDM (Intelligent Duck Music)?
Artiphon’s pocket-sized Orba, a synth, looper and MIDI controller, can now be used to create “musical selfies”
Expect to see videos created with the Orbacam app all over social media soon
PreSonus’s second-generation R-Series monitors promise more control and improved performance
R65 V2 and R80 V2 are said to add both air and warmth to your music
