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Review | Dec 26, 2017 by Rounik Sethi

Hardware synths continued to grow in popularity through 2017 proving that demand for tactile music machines is alive and kicking. Here's 10 of our favorite hardware synths released this year.  

Tutorial | Dec 26, 2017 by Hollin Jones

In a digital world, it's still possible to get analog sound for your productions without using external hardware. In this short video, Rich Tozzoli shows you how it's done.

Review | Dec 25, 2017 by Noah Pred

Max programmers continued to innovate this year with a variety of colorful instruments, utilities, generative tools, and effects. Here's a look back at five that stuck out.

Review | Dec 24, 2017 by Hollin Jones

2017 was a great year for making music on iPads and iPhones, with several major new releases. Here are some of our favourite tools for mobile music-making.

News | Dec 24, 2017 by Rounik Sethi

Dipole from Sinevibes is a flanger effect that uses the concept of using two tape machines to create positive and negative flanger effects in a high-fidelity plugin.

Review | Dec 23, 2017 by Jay Asher

EastWest's Hollywood Series has been phenomenally successful and for years now has been my personal 'go to.' The choirs are the latest entry in the series.

News | Dec 23, 2017 by Rounik Sethi

Considered one of the most popular synthesizers in Roland history, Roland Cloud has brought the classic JV-1080 back to life in software plugin format. And it sounds good!

Review | Dec 22, 2017 by Noah Pred

A forward-thinking drum sequencer with a wealth of powerful features and the immaculate samples Wave Alchemy is known for. Noah Pred falls in love with Evolution...

News | Dec 22, 2017 by Rounik Sethi

Audio interfaces are the heart of most music recording studios. Here's seven of the best released in 2017 which we either reviewed or were very impressed by.

News | Dec 22, 2017 by Rounik Sethi

This cool trick / MIDI hack will turn an Elektron Analog Four from a 4-analog voice synthesizer into a paraphonic analog Eight with three simple lines of code.

News | Dec 22, 2017 by Rounik Sethi

The MIniMo low-cost modular synthesizer system just got a new kit that can transform any module into a MIDI Out sequencer! It's affordable, useful and easy to use.

Review | Dec 21, 2017 by Matt Vanacoro

USB mics can sometimes sacrifice quality for convenience, but that's not the case with Sennheiser's latest portable. Matt Vanacoro puts it to the test.

Tutorial | Dec 21, 2017 by Hollin Jones

Creating clean, smooth fades at the start and end of tracks ensures no unwanted noise makes it through to the mastering stage when you're finishing your tracks. Here's how it works.

News | Dec 21, 2017 by Rounik Sethi

2017 has seen leading figures in the film and entertainment industries being outed for sexual harassment. AFEM is launching a support service for those affected in the electronic music industry.

Review | Dec 20, 2017 by Matt Vanacoro

RME's Fireface hardware is well regarded in the pro audio world, but how would Matt Vanacoro get on with the UFX+ and its wealth of I/O? Read on to find out.