Ableton Live 11.2 is here: AUv3 iOS plugin support for Mac and a refreshed reverb for all
Mac M1 Live users can now run Moog’s soft synths in their desktop DAW
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PWM Malevolent review
- £499
This British brand’s debut instrument is a decidedly old-school semi-modular synth but it boasts character by the bucketload
You hum it, Deezer will play it: music streaming service says that it can now identity those songs that are stuck in your head
A new ‘industry-first’ feature for Deezer’s SongCatcher function
Producer David Rivkin recalls his early studio sessions with a pre-fame Prince: “He had recorded every part on this little hand cassette machine; he hummed the piano part, he hummed the drum beat and then he hummed the guitar part”
“He could be very hard on people, especially when he had ‘the eye of Sauron’”
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: “I’ve played with Buchla instruments so long, they've become an extension of my brain”
Doyen of the Buchla and maker of modular mayhem Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith returns with a new album, the chaotically beautiful Let’s Turn it Into Sound
Audacity takes a “major step towards transforming into a DAW” as it reaches version 3.2
The free and open-source software aims for "end-to-end production tool" status
Aphex Twin releases Samplebrain, a free and open-source “custom sample mashing app”
“What if you could build a 303 riff from only a cappella or bubbling mud sounds?”
Melodics, the smart keys, pads and drums app that gamifies learning, has added hit songs
Roster of hits will keep growing, says maker
Classic album - Underworld’s Rick Smith on Second Toughest in the Infants: "No plugins, no compressors, no gates… I don’t know how I did it!”
Back in 2010, Underworld’s production mainstay talked us through the band's seminal mid-’90s long player
Why more and more musicians are cancelling tours for mental health reasons
Scores of high-profile acts including Arlo Parks, Wet Leg and Disclosure are withdrawing from planned tour dates to protect their mental wellbeing
Moog’s Model 10 is back again: modular synth reissue promises “purity of sound, speed, and simplicity”
The 1971 all-analogue instrument returns in lovingly crafted new form
Gordo responds after fellow DJs Waze and Essel say that he refused to come off during Ministry Of Sound set, leaving them unable to play
“It was obvious miscommunication and I am so sorry”
“I've worked in bedroom studios most of my life": Nils Frahm on the analogue gear and intangible inspiration behind his 3-hour ambient opus, Music For Animals
"But now, I'm not challenged anymore as an engineer. I have all the stuff I want, all the brushes, all the colours. What do I want to paint? That's the only question"
Korg Volca FM2 review
- £149
The DX7-inspired synth gets a v2 upgrade with twice the polyphony and new effects. Let's go back to the ’80s
Wait, Zoom’s new R12 multitrack recorder is also an FM synth!?
A mobile, computer-free music production box with a difference
Why the date in Earth Wind & Fire’s September doesn't mean anything, and how it could have sounded different if it had been recorded in a DAW
A song story of nonsense lyrics and a wandering tempo
SampleRadar: 520 rimshot samples
Okay, technically, they're sidestick samples... but who cares when they sound this rim-arkable?
The Jellyfish is a new instrument plugin that takes a deep dive into the world of granular synthesis
Use it to transform your audio into drones, soundscapes, pulses and more
Spectrasonics’ free Flow Capture feature means that all your great musical ideas will always be recorded, without a DAW
Capture sparks of inspiration in Omnisphere, Keyscape and Trilian
