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Thursday May 29, 2025. 07:23 PM
It's time for a very special episode of Magical Synth Adventures. Armed with some rare and wonderful grooveboxes, host, artist, and music tech journalist Paulee Alex Bow turns their hate mail into songs - and surprise, you get some bangers. The post Paulee Alex Bow makes...
Wednesday May 28, 2025. 04:38 PM
Apple updated Logic Pro for iPad and macOS today. They're leading with stem splitting enhancements and sound packs, but advanced users may be more interested in a bunch of improvements across the mixer, automation, Spatial Audio, accessibility, and more. Here's what...
MD1 is the full library of famous and obscure hardware drum machines your Ableton Move needs - plus a bunch of Drift presets and tonal samples, to boot. It's optimized for Ableton Move, and comes with well-organized sample files you can use anywhere. The post MD1: classic...
Tuesday May 27, 2025. 09:55 PM
In a challenging three acts - purification, initiation, and revelation - Universe in Prayer - فَلَک در ذِکْر takes the Bohlen-Pierce scale as a starting point for an intentional 'invocation of Otherness, mystery, and transcendence.' It's the latest from...
Monday May 26, 2025. 07:56 PM
US readers, if you're looking for deals on new gear, major retailers are all running sales. Here are a few hand-picked selections I'd be scoping out if I lived in the US. And for now, while some inventory is backordered, you can lock in pre-tariff pricing. The post Memorial ...
Sunday May 25, 2025. 07:57 PM
Arriving with this weekend's giveaways are some big freebies from Universal Audio and Native Instruments (now parent of iZotope). If you act fast, that includes iZotope's Tonal Balance Control for free, through the US holiday weekend ending late Monday. Let's break down the...
Saturday May 24, 2025. 08:27 PM
Our music communities, the music instruments industry, the artists and engineers -- all these groups would be incomplete without our trans friends and colleagues. But as their rights are stripped away systematically, as people question their right to exist, 'visibility' is...
Friday May 23, 2025. 08:03 PM
From the mind of Behrang Najafi - known as half of Temp Illusion, among other things - 'Kudos to Living Artists' asks the question, how would you make a mix of just one artist? Invited artists have crafted tributes to Boards of Canada, Brigitte Fontaine, Peder Mannerfelt,...
Thursday May 22, 2025. 08:49 PM
It was once the pinnacle of digital recordable audio, a would-be successor to the mighty cassette tape. And for one glorious moment in 1996, Sony MiniDisc was all that was right with the world, exemplified by a trippy Japan-only ad campaign with none other than Jamiroquai....
El Jaguar, out now, is a rhythmic excursion from sound library sameness. This toolkit from boutique house MNTRA produces a deeply customizable sound world by re-amping through the legendary Picó sound systems of Barranquilla, Colombia. It's something new, melding Montréal...
Wednesday May 21, 2025. 09:47 PM
Roland has quietly added eight classic BOSS Effects pedals as Roland Cloud plug-ins, including OD-1 OverDrive, PH-1 Phaser, DS-1 Distortion, and more. That's a welcome addition, but you should know where to find still more effects in Roland Cloud's expansive, if sometimes...
Tuesday May 20, 2025. 10:17 PM
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) today announces the launch of Fender Studio...
It's time to escape mechanical loops and rigid, on-the-grid timing. Fugue Machine Rubato does everything Alexandernaut's brilliant Fugue Machine did with multiple playheads. But now it can also accelerate, decelerate, bounce, echo, strum, swing, and bend, for both pitches...
The people we work with in music and music tech are more than just colleagues: they're friends, inspiration, and part of our lives. Stephen Fortner, long-time editor-in-chief of the former USA-based Keyboard Magazine suffered a stroke earlier this month can use some support...
Monday May 19, 2025. 07:22 PM
Getting hands-on with Dreadbox's new 6-voice synth was a clear Superbooth highlight. Artemis is one instrument that combines 6-voice polyphonic analog with Sinevibes digital effects. But it wasn't just my hands on it; we've got Sinevibes' Artemiy playing this for us, too....
Young independent outlet Megaphone tells the story of Irtijal Festival's impact on Beirut and Lebanon through local eyes and a compilation of the folks who made it happen. It's a must-watch as a way of reflecting on the spaces we create for music in all parts of the world....
Saturday May 17, 2025. 01:35 PM
Today, Ahmed Muin, director of Gaza Birds Singing, rose with drones loudly buzzing in the background. The sound of bombings through the night in Gaza has been relentless, he says. But he'll join live with the Hebron/Bethlehem Amwaj Choir in a livestream today, a second...
Thursday May 15, 2025. 02:08 PM
Sinevibes’ creations are all gems running on the ultra-compact, ultra-economical KORG NTS-3 kaoss pad (via logue SDK). But the Cache update is an especially big deal, with new reverse, rewind, and scratch modes. Creator Artemiy Pavlov showed us just how. Cache was designed...
Tuesday May 13, 2025. 08:43 PM
Trigger envelopes and synced patterns of shapes and gates on macOS, Windows, and Linux - for free. GATE-12 by tiagolr has some features you've probably seen before, but combined in clever ways and elegantly integrated, plus the price is right. The post Free GATE-12 gives you ...
Monday May 12, 2025. 10:26 PM
GRM Tools was one of the first plug-in suites available, the product of Paris' GRM research center. It's always been a unique, composition-focused toolset. But I've seen its future, and it's on a whole new level, allowing open-ended modulation and multichannel signal...
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