Remember your old band's MySpace page? All the music on it just got lost
The former social media giant admits that files uploaded more than three years ago may be gone forever
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With Bitwig Studio 2.5, plugins will no longer crash your entire projects
A unique take on plugin hosting and crash protection
Vinicius Honorio's favourite music software
The Brazilian techno producer and label owner gets passionate about his five favourite software tools
Give your mix some grit by downloading the LoFi Vintage Clipper plugin for free
Be quick, though: it's a limited-time offer
6 underrated sampling plugins that you need to try
Discover the new breed of sampling tools that perform tricks yesterday’s producer could only dream of
Hold on to your hats: Twisted Electrons has an incendiary new drum machine, Deton8
Head-poppin' beat-maker
Reason 10.3 promises to fix “poor and erratic” VST plugin performance
A big rewrite to the DAW’s audio rendering code should mean better overall performance, too
Here’s how Nine Inch Nails’ Alessandro Cortini uses a 4-track Portastudio as a performance instrument
Cassette revival? For some people, it never went away
Latest tuition
How to connect an Arturia MiniBrute 2S and a Behringer Neutron to create a hybrid monster synth
We use a little semi-modular magic to create the ‘Bruton’…
How to enhance drums with analogue-style distortion
Whether used to enhance or decimate, distortion is the beatmaker’s friend
What are CV, Gate and Triggers, and how do they relate to semi-modular synthesis?
Get to grips with the various signals that can be used to control the various elements of your synth
How to synthesize an old-school rave pad using Arturia's DX7 V
Bring back the sound of '90s dance music without having to go anywhere the North Circular, with our synth programming guide
How to design a Dominator-style hoover sound with AudioRealism's ReDominator
This classic rave sound is well within your grasp thanks to Mike Janney’s awesome Alpha Juno emulation
12 sure-fire ways to achieve a vintage sound
Using plugins (and perhaps a bit of physical signal routing), you can artificially age even the cleanest of digital mixes
How to emulate the sound of cassette tape in your DAW
Tarnish your shiny digital tracks by making them sound like they’re being playing back on consumer-grade tape. In a good way!
