This nifty mini keyboard controller can speak fluently with a range of gear, and looks to be centre of your live performance setup. Does it achieve the perfect balance of features vs. price?
Marrying the worlds of synthetic pop, techno and classical music and forgrounding his trademark delicate piano, Ólafur Arnalds explains how he constructed his latest album both pre- and post-lockdown.
In Paris, Roche Musique’s pioneer weaves wondrous nu-disco with an arsenal of powerful plug-ins and top-notch monitoring. In this week's Show Off Your Studio, he shows us what's possible with a few controllers and a laptop
We asked you to vote in 13 categories, and our experts have since deliberated on the results. Here are the winners for our Gear of the Year roundup of the ’20s.
With the beta of Live 11 in our hands, it’s time for us to scope out some of the most intriguing new additions. While there’s not much in the way of new instruments as such, there are many new sounds and workflows to explore.
Feeling highly strung about your current project? Fret not! We explore how legendary artists incorporated strings into their work, and show you how similar results can be achieved with Orchestral Tools' LA Sessions.
This nifty mini keyboard controller can speak fluently with a range of gear, and looks to be centre of your live performance setup. Does it achieve the perfect balance of features vs. price?
Marrying the worlds of synthetic pop, techno and classical music and forgrounding his trademark delicate piano, Ólafur Arnalds explains how he constructed his latest album both pre- and post-lockdown.
In Paris, Roche Musique’s pioneer weaves wondrous nu-disco with an arsenal of powerful plug-ins and top-notch monitoring. In this week's Show Off Your Studio, he shows us what's possible with a few controllers and a laptop
We asked you to vote in 13 categories, and our experts have since deliberated on the results. Here are the winners for our Gear of the Year roundup of the ’20s.
With the beta of Live 11 in our hands, it’s time for us to scope out some of the most intriguing new additions. While there’s not much in the way of new instruments as such, there are many new sounds and workflows to explore.
Feeling highly strung about your current project? Fret not! We explore how legendary artists incorporated strings into their work, and show you how similar results can be achieved with Orchestral Tools' LA Sessions.
Conceived in the 1980s as a tool for videogame-sound development, the sample-based sequencers known as trackers have finally made the quantum leap from software to hardware – and in stylish fashion.
Few music-sequencing softwares have a history as distinctive as the tracker. With the epochal program now arriving in hardware form, we trace the tracker’s lineage, from its humble 8-bit beginnings to its era-defining rave sounds.