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It can’t compete with Jingle Bells or Fur Elise, though
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Prince’s go-to synths and drum machine: a career in music tech gear
From the Linn LM-1 to the Roland JD-800
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
Producer and engineer to the stars Josh Gudwin: “I got a call from Scooter Braun and he’s like ‘I need you to go to Colombia to get Justin Bieber on this remix’”
If you want hits, who are you going to call? Increasingly, that choice seems to be narrowing down to just one man…
"Without Pet Sounds, The Beatles wouldn’t have made Sgt Pepper": Giles Martin on mixing The Beach Boys’ masterpiece in Dolby Atmos
Giles Martin's seasoned ears have brought The Beach Boys' hallowed Pet Sounds into the spatial audio realm with astonishing results. We spoke to Giles to learn more…
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
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
Should musicians be goggle-eyed for Apple’s new 15-inch MacBook Air, Mac Studio and Mac Pro?
Who needs a ‘spatial computer’ when you can have a laptop or desktop one?
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
How Kylie Minogue’s Can’t Get You Out Of My Head was written in a couple of hours and took most of its sounds from the Korg Triton
As the star rides high again with Padam Padam, we look back at the writing and recording of one of her biggest hits
ALM Busy Circuits Pam’s Pro Workout review
- £269
- €296
- $319
Will the pro version of this popular multi-tasking module make us break a sweat?
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
Toontrack EZKeys Synthwave & EZX Expansion review
- £152 / £79
- €169 / €89
- $159 / $82
Want your track to sound like it was birthed in the technicolor 80s? Toontrack is on hand, transporting us to when synths ruled the waves
Former 10cc keyboard player Duncan Mackay showing his Yamaha and Roland synths to comedian Mike Reid could be the strangest video you'll watch all week
It all took place on a children’s TV show in the early ‘80s as a robot called Metal Mickey looked on
Jon Hopkins spent 4 months perfecting the synth riff for Open Eye Signal on a 1979 Korg MS-20: “So much effort into trying to make something sound effortless”
As Hopkins' 2013 release Immunity turns 10, the electronic artist opens up about the album's writing process
Orange Amps enters the Bluetooth speaker market with the Orange Box
The Orange Box is unique in being powered by Class D and A/B analogue amplifiers, and is offered as a take-anywhere battery powered model and a beefier unit for plugging into the mains
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!
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
