Universal Audio's UAD 9.0 software brings to the table (or studio) a lot to love. Here to explain what and why is UAD veteran user, Matt Vanacoro.
Everyone loves vocoding, but how great would it be if you could do it for free? Well you can, with this quick and easy guide to vocoding in your DAW!
Probably the most innovative and creative new MIDI controller since the JazzMutant Lemur, the Joué, brings swappable, smart, modular pads to a performance-oriented MIDI controller. Now on Kickstarter!
Image Line have done the brave thing: ceased development for their popular FL Studio Mobile 2 app and moved to a new architecture with FL Studio Mobile 3. Here's why you should be excited.
Ever wondered how to get that warm, intense finish for your House tracks? With this hands-on demo from ATFC you'll find out exactly how it's done!
Synths you can play in your web browser are becoming more common place. This emulation of the classic Roland Juno 106 synthesizer is very enjoyable and easy to navigate and play.
Kris Dirksen, known for scoring music or trailers for Mad Max: Fury Road & Breaking Bad, talks about how the Buchla Music Easel synth came to be at the heart of his score for Cinemax's Quarry series.
As well as showing us round his cool studio in this video, Paul Godfrey gives us a tour of one of his favorite new analog music machines. It's the Arturia DrumBrute of course.
This detailed demo video for the Bastl Instruments Kastle explores the basics of this mini-modular synth, its sonic capabilities with emphasis on the modulation and sound sections.
An unashamedly digital hardware synthesizer, the Modor NF-1, captured our attention with its beautiful, minimal, sleek design and left us curious whether its sounds would live up to its aesthetics.
Don't be fooled by the size and affordable price of Modal's new CRAFTsynth. There's so much more to this digital monophonic synth kit than meets the eye. We dropped in to Modal HQ to get hands on.
Drum tracks can often benefit from being processed, sometimes in extreme ways! This short video explains how the free plugin Hysteresis can be used to get great-sounding results.
If you're partial to a bit of fat Acid-Talk and singing Kicks then the latest Reaktor Blocks from Flintpope are going to be right up your street. Plus you can donate or get them for free.
There's small and there's small. The Tiny TS touch synthesizer is, as its name suggest, simply tiny! In context this DIY synth with a one-octave keyboard is the size of a credit card!
If you're stuck in a cycle of major and minor when composing this music theory tutorial to help you break out and explore four types of lesser used chords that can transform your songwriting skills.