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How a happy synth accident inspired a US number 1 single for Terence Trent D’Arby
“I heard this drone. An engineer, Sean Oliver, he had taken the DX7 keyboard and he had just pushed the pitchbend wheel back and forth”
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The obscure Andean instrument heard on The Last of Us' soundtrack is the star of Spitfire Audio's latest plugin
Ronroco by Gustavo Santaolalla captures the haunting sound of HBO's post-apocalyptic video game adaptation
Arturia’s V Collection gets a Roland JP-8000 emulation and lo-fi synth/sampler, along with five more instruments and a host of updates
V Collection 11 also features MiniBrute V, Synthx V and a redesigned SEM V, along with two new instruments in the Augmented series
"I was like, 'Wow'": Porter Robinson only recently discovered that Coldplay used to sound a bit like Radiohead
“I found tons of forum debates from 2004 from people saying, you know Radiohead fans being like, ‘Coldplay's trash’”
Why is Serena Williams being bombarded with microphones fired from confetti cannons?
In purely literal terms, this might be the biggest mic drop ever
How Yves Jarvis recorded his whole album in Audacity, the free and open-source audio editor
“I’ve always used Audacity to arrange and sequence my work from tape, but this time, I didn’t even use any hardware,” he says
Waves makes 7 plugins available for free, including convolution reverb, FM synth and tube saturator
Snag Lil Tube, IR Live, V-EQ3, V-Comp, GTR Solo, Flow Motion and AudioTrack for no charge with free future updates
Best digital pianos for beginners 2025: 8 beginner-friendly pianos handpicked by a professional piano and music gear reviewer
An expert look at the very best beginner digital pianos on the market from the likes of Yamaha, Casio, Korg, and Roland - including full reviews and video demos
