L-Acoustics L-ISA review
- £29/month
This mixing application makes creating immersive soundscapes a doddle
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Arturia lights the MiniFuse with a new range of “class-leading” budget audio interfaces
A cut above the cut-price competition?
Feed Me: "When I’m producing I’m always trying to hide the process so you just hear the result"
EDM producer Jon Gooch has revived his cartoonish Feed Me moniker. He showed Danny Turner around his studio and talked through how live instrumentation changed his production approach
Alesis’s affordable V Series II MIDI keyboards give you synth-style keys and velocity-sensitive pads
Is that enough to make them stand out from the controller crowd, though?
Sing your way to success with the Dubler 2 voice-to-MIDI software
Update adds standalone operation so you can use it without a DAW
Keeping it lo-fi: 3 techniques for achieving dusty lo-fi goodness
We show you how to nail an authentic lo-fi sound through bouncing to tape, modular downsampling and clever EQing
Ableton Live 11.1 adds native support for Apple’s M1 Silicon Macs, and you can try it right now
The Live update that M1 Mac owners have been waiting for
SSL introduces new “premium” Fusion plugins, Vintage Drive and Stereo Image, and teases future software plans
Solid State Logic is bringing the sound of its all-analogue hardware processor to your DAW
Classic album: J-Walk on A Night on The Rocks
Martin Fisher takes us through the sampledelic 2002 classic track by track
Alesis Prestige review
- £369
Alesis made bold claims about its affordable digital piano. Does it live up to the hype?
Vitalic: "The basic concept of the album is to make a bridge between contemporary techno and post-punk"
Ahead of the release of his first album since 2017, French producer Vitalic talks through the studio equipment he's using to create punk-influenced electro
This new free plugin promises the fattest 808-style kicks you’ll find in a ROMpler
The samples come from a completely different drum machine, though
Modal SKULPTsynth SE review
- £169
Modal is back with an update to its SKULPT synth. We take a listen to see if it can rustle up a big sound
Songwriting basics: how to use the 2-5-1 chord progression in your DAW
Learn an important trick of the songwriting trade
10 ways to get more out of your MPC hardware
These tips and shortcuts will have you flying around your MPC, expert and novice alike
Researchers say that music spreads like a virus, and electronica is the most infectious genre of all
Pop and metal aren’t so easily transmitted, though
Erica Synths and Sonic Potions LXR-02 review
- £499
Brace yourself for another resurrected blast from the past
Could Plogue’s OPS7 synth plugin be the most accurate Yamaha DX7 emulation yet?
A “bit-accurate” software reboot that promises the classic ‘80s sound
Audiomodern’s Gatelab is a free VST/AU gate sequencer plugin that could open new creative doors
Evolving rhythmic patterns made easy… and free
