The best DAWs 2021: the best digital audio workstations for PC and Mac
We round-up the best music production software packages
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GForce Software’s OB-E synth plugin brings back the mighty Oberheim 8-Voice
Eight SEMs in one massive instrument
Roland’s Juno-60 synth plugin brings back an ‘80s classic, complete with “odd quirks and charming limitations”
Plus, you get the Juno-106 filter and BOSS CE-1 chorus
IK Multimedia is giving you another chance to download Memory-V, its Moog Memorymoog soft synth emulation, for free
Get this $50/€60 instrument for nothing
You can now watch GForce’s Bright Sparks synth documentary for free
Film focuses on the US and British electronic music pioneers
Jazz legend Chick Corea dies, aged 79
Fusion pioneer had been suffering from a rare form of cancer
Eplex7 DSP says that its Klerhaim N1 VST synth is more analogue than 99.5% of all others: “do not be confused with marketing BS”
Says that they sound “sterile, digital, boring, robotic, uniformly numb and sharp”
5 music technology products that you (probably) didn’t know can use MPE
MIDI Polyphonic Expression isn’t just for fancy controllers and soft synths
A US toddler is releasing her debut electronic music album, which she produced using MIDI before she was born
Messages created during “freeform meditations” were sent to synthesizers
Pluto is a dwarfish modular synth that’s inspired by ‘80s Casio keyboards
Portable, patchable instrument is designed for creating complex, random sequences
Cherry Audio’s Polymode VST synth plugin is a Moog Polymoog without the problems
An easier interface, more features and - hopefully - no reliability issues
Richard Barbieri: “I didn’t have any technical ability, and I didn’t have any music theory knowledge”
Japan’s innovative guru has mixed classic synths, real instrument samples and expressive pedals on his new lockdown-recorded album
What’s the difference between MPE and MIDI 2.0?
Two next-gen standards, so how do they compare?
Here’s the new MIDI 2.0 logo and sonic signature: look and sound inspired by “musical forms”
Plus, get up to speed with the new standard in less than five minutes
What is MPE… and why should you care about it?
It feels like MIDI Polyphonic Expression might finally be coming of age
Major and minor triad chord charts: root positions and inversions on a piano or MIDI keyboard
Your handy visual guide
Behringer’s Pro-800 synth, a Prophet-600 reboot, is up and running and “almost there”
Update video shows the instrument in action
How to play the blues scale on your piano or MIDI keyboard
The blues scale - a scale you need to know
