Roland’s Zenology Pro plugin hits version 2.0: more sounds and a refined user interface
The Zen-Core-powered soft synth gets an update
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Bad Bunny sued by ex-girlfriend for $40m after sampling voice memo in 2022's most successful album
Carliz De La Cruz Hernández claims her voice was featured in "Dos Mil 16" without permission
A firmware update for the cut-price Yamaha DX9 synth makes it more like a DX7
40 years after its release, an alternative ROM removes some of the DX9's artificial limitations
Joyce Muniz: "I can't live without the Moog Sub 37 - it's the soul of all my productions"
The Brazilian producer's latest album is a sonic time capsule that captures formative years spent in Vienna, D’n’B-fuelled tours across India and a lockdown spent in Berlin. We find out more about how it was made
Music to your eyes: Pixel Art is a new app that creates MIDI sequences from your photos
Use the built-in synth or trigger your own instruments
The Oberheim DMX drum machine is set to ride again as Behringer wheels out its BMX “homage”
An emulation of the ‘Blue Monday drum machine’ is on the way, but you can’t place a new order just yet
EZPZ is a free music-making iOS app that lets you doodle with sound
The app was designed by AV startup Chroma in partnership with techno titan Cari Lekebusch
Peter Gabriel on music and AI: “I think you do better if you work with a powerful new tool than just grumble or pretend it doesn’t exist”
Of the end of Genesis, he says: “I had been there at the beginning, so I should be there at the end”
Dillon Bastan's Songbird M4L plugin lets a singing flock of birds loose in your Ableton Live project
It might sound a little bird-brained, but we're singing the praises of this highly creative Max for Live instrument
KRK GoAux 3 and 4 review
- £349 upward
Need to take your monitors with you? We check out a new solution from KRK
Max Martin on his approach to songwriting and production: “I’m trying to make every part good… I think every second needs to be awesome”
“My intentions are pure: I want to just create something that we love in the room”
M83’s Anthony Gonzalez on the success of Midnight City: “EDM is probably one of the styles of music that I hate the most. All of a sudden, I have these bro EDM DJs playing my music, and I just can’t even care less”
French artist describes new album Fantasy as “the beginning of the next chapter of my career”
Slate + Ash Choreographs review
- £249
What happens if you apply step movement and choreography to software synthesis? Slate + Ash hopes to enlighten and surprise you
6 drum processing techniques to help you program state-of-the-art beats
Learn some of the most essential tools and techniques for getting a modern drum sound
Kiviak Instruments is drip-feeding us information on its WoFi sampling keyboard
When will we get the full reveal, though?
How Bon Iver made a Platinum-selling record with two guitars and a single SM57 microphone
Justin Vernon's For Emma, Forever Ago is the ultimate proof that it's not what you have, it's what you do with it
Jacob Collier on his relationship with Quincy Jones: “I said ‘I don’t want any help with mixing, I want to do it all myself’... he really respected that”
There’s no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ way to make music, adds Collier: “It’s all just made up. You have to find your own way”
Quick Tips: How to add sonic movement to your hi-hat patterns
Humanize your hi-hats by applying multiple LFOs to modulate their pitch
