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The Track: Rich NxT on the making of Natural feat. Shyam P
"A lot of the sounds I like to use are from that era, and that matches up perfectly with the vintage grooveboxes."
Mixed in Key’s Satellite Plugins 2.0 enables free online music-making collaboration in different DAWs
A simple solution for co-writing and producing?
How Daft Punk made Homework: early studio gear and music production methods revealed
1999 interview confirms a love of Roland gear and an ingenious workflow
Video Q&A: What makes vinyl special? - "It engages you, it becomes physical"
I Love Acid's Josh Doherty - aka Posthuman - and Phonica's Nick Williams chat to Shadow Child
Uèle Lamore: “I still use the same refurbished iMac that I got in 2011… I don’t use any soft synths”
The Franco-American composer is bringing together orchestras and electronics, and wonders if AI will take us into a musical future…
Reason Studios’ Algoritm is a flexible FM synth that promises the iconic sounds of both the ‘80s and today
A smooth FM operator?
The best DAWs 2021: the best digital audio workstations for PC and Mac
We round-up the best music production software packages
5 tracks producers need to hear by... Daft Punk
We say goodbye in the only way we know how: by selecting five moments of genre-defining brilliance from the men behind the masks
Softube and Empirical Labs offer new compressor and EQ plugins for your DAW, and a channel strip for Console 1
Mike-E Comp and Lil FrEQ lead the charge
GForce Software’s OB-E synth plugin brings back the mighty Oberheim 8-Voice
Eight SEMs in one massive instrument
Ableton Live 11 Suite review
- £539
- €599
- $749
The immensely popular DAW reaches its 11th iteration with an array of new features
Daft Punk have split up, and they're not telling us why
Publicist confirms that the electronic music duo are no longer together
HY-ESG is a free VST/AU trance gate plugin that hinges on a Euclidean sequencer
Bedroom Producers Blog and HY-Plugins have cooked up a rhythmic processing treat
Thinking about buying an M1 Mac for music production? Maybe you should wait for the M1X…
Leaked specs suggest that the new chip could offer significant improvements
Could Real World Studios’ intimate new Red Room be your perfect music production pleasure palace?
Compact studio is designed for smaller-scale projects, with Dolby Atmos coming later this year
Spitfire Audio releases affordable new Abbey Road orchestral libraries for your next blockbuster film soundtrack
Woodwinds and Legendary Low Strings join Orchestral Foundations
An audio engineer explains why Dolby Atmos Music is “definitely going to supersede stereo”
Dean St Studios' Jan 'Stan' Kybert, who’s worked with Paul Weller and Oasis, on why Atmos could succeed where others have failed
Jimmy Edgar: “I almost never used compression on my music up until my new album”
The producer, DJ, and photographer tells us about his long history with recording, why he redlines in Ableton Live, and what’s motivated him in the time of Covid
