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News | Dec 19, 2014 by Rounik Sethi

Until 31st December, 2014, you can pick up some free gifts courtesy of Native Instruments. There's Traktor Remix sets, REPLIKA (delay effect) and $25/€25/£22 e-voucher for their online shop!

Review | Dec 18, 2014 by Tadhg Leonard

Reloop's NEON Drumpad features RGB, velocity-sensitive pads. Ideal for drumming in theory, and Tadhg Leonard finds out how well this performs in reality.

News | Dec 18, 2014 by G.W. Childs IV

It's day 1 of our Xmas gift giveaway and here's some FREE patches for iZotope's Stutter Edit: cuts, jumps, glitches and filter crushes to give you a sound that will bend minds.

News | Dec 18, 2014 by Rounik Sethi

Available today, Propellerhead's new "Make Music Together" service allows us to share, discover and collaborate on music using Reason 8.1, Figure and Take. Check out the video to see it in action!

News | Dec 18, 2014 by Rounik Sethi

The second video in their series on workflow techniques using their music making hardware, sees Elektron focusing on the Analog Keys. This 18 minute video takes you through the process from scratch.

News | Dec 18, 2014 by Rounik Sethi

UVI's Sparkverb features a truly unique reverb algorithm, and it simply sounds great! Now at version 1.1, Sparkverb includes predelay, Quad support and much more.

Review | Dec 17, 2014 by Matt Vanacoro

An 8-in, 8-out audio interface for under $400? M-Audio's new M-Track Eight comes bundled with Cubase LE, has XLR combos for all channels with Octane preamps. But does it make the grade? We find out.

Tutorial | Dec 17, 2014 by Joe Albano

There's not many (any?) virtual instruments with an exclamation mark in their name. But that's not the reason Xpand!2 sample playback/synth deserves your attention. Joe Albano takes you deep into it.

News | Dec 17, 2014 by Rounik Sethi

FORTE tell us the new version (Forte 6) is easy-to-use, ideal for all ages, and allows users to create their first piece of music in as little as 10 minutes. Interested in notation, check it out.

Review | Dec 16, 2014 by Hollin Jones

Are you looking for a well designed, easy to use MPC app for iPad? Akai Pro's new iMPC Pro app provides serious sampling and audio editing options, a great sequencer, cool FX and more!

Tutorial | Dec 16, 2014 by G.W. Childs IV

Add an organic, throaty feel to your basses and synths by creating a formant filter in Propellerhead Reason's Thor. G. W. Childs shows how to combine Thor and a Combinator for that WOW effect!

News | Dec 16, 2014 by Rounik Sethi

The good folks at Tracktion Software tell us their latest addition to Tracktion 5 is a revolutionary in-app retail site called MarketPlace. Here you can download third-party effects and instruments.

News | Dec 16, 2014 by Rounik Sethi

If you've been even slightly curious what music production is like in the Bitwig camp, then from now until Jan 15th 2015 is the time to find out, thanks to a big sale on Bitwig Studio.

Review | Dec 15, 2014 by Matt Vanacoro

JamHub TourBus helps you practice, rehearse, record and reflect on your musical performance. Matt Vanacoro put the JamHub to the test in a music school for a month and shares his findings here.

Tutorial | Dec 15, 2014 by Joe Albano

Logic Pro X has an arsenal of useful tools and plug-ins for mixing and sound design. The Match EQ is perhaps one of the less well-known "fixing" tools that does what it suggests, and does it well!