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Tutorial | Apr 12, 2018 by Noah Pred

The new Echo effect in Ableton Live 10 has far more interesting abilities than first meet the eye. In this tutorial, dub aficionado Noah Pred shows you why he think's it's the best echo on the block.

News | Apr 12, 2018 by Rounik Sethi

Arturia's KeyLab Essential is designed to help you spend less time being distracted with a keyboard and mouse, and more time creating, performing, and playing music. Now it's available in black!

Interview | Apr 12, 2018 by Rounik Sethi

Todd Barton. Long-time Buchla expert, synthesizer master, and Ursula K. Le Guin collaborator recreates the music from Music and Poems For The Kesh using his trusty Buchla Music Easel synthesizer.

News | Apr 12, 2018 by Rounik Sethi

Nord Keyboards have announced the new Nord Piano 4 improving on its three previous incarnations with enhanced polyphony, better keybed sensor and virtual hammer technology. Here's what's new.

Review | Apr 11, 2018 by Jade Wii

The Mordax Data Multifunction Visualiser is a module that turns sound into different kinds of visual waves. But there's much more to it than that, as Jade Wii discovered.

Tutorial | Apr 11, 2018 by G.W. Childs IV

When keyboards and guitars slug it out in a mix, which one will win? As G.W Childs explains, it's not always simple. Here's how to decide when to push one or the other.

News | Apr 11, 2018 by Rounik Sethi

And yes, you read the headline right, that's 1,280 oscillators! Watch this new virtual analog hardware synthesizer from Exodus Digital in action in a high-quality demo video from SynthAnatomy.

Tutorial | Apr 11, 2018 by Hollin Jones

Get to the heart of quickly and efficiently designing tones and timbres on your hardware synth with the techniques explained by Marc Doty in this quick video.

News | Apr 10, 2018 by Rounik Sethi

Everything you ever wanted to know about modular synths and more can be found in this new book from the authors of PUSH TURN MOVE.

Review | Apr 10, 2018 by Matt Vanacoro

UAD's latest software update brings four excellent new effects to the system. Matt Vanacoro got the chance to road test them, and liked what he found.

News | Apr 10, 2018 by Rounik Sethi

The Moog DFAM is a very capable eurorack compatible, semi-modular drum synth with a lot going for it. But wouldn't it be great to play it paraphonically or increase / reduce the 8-step sequencer?

Tutorial | Apr 10, 2018 by Hollin Jones

Adding a few choice MIDI effects to tracks in Live can quickly liven things up, creating complex beats and patterns from simple user input. Noah Pred shows you how in this short video.

Tutorial | Apr 09, 2018 by Joe Albano

Working in the digital domain doesn't mean your productions can't get that rich analog sound. Joe Albano reveals which of Logic Pro's plugins to turn to for a vintage vibe.

News | Apr 09, 2018 by Rounik Sethi

Control Pack by Noiss Coko & Isotonik Studios is actually three Max4Live devices in one: CC Manager, CC Random and Random. Now you can take control over external instruments and Live 10's parameters.

News | Apr 08, 2018 by Rounik Sethi

NI haven't been shouting about the latest Maschine 2.7.3 update, but we think there's enough in here to make Logic Pro X users very happy as well as existing Maschine users.