Musicians outraged as Spotify CEO claims the "cost of creating content" is "close to zero": "Our albums took hundreds of hours of human effort, hard work and creativity"
NAMM 2024: Korg opens "a new chapter in synth history" with the microKorg 2, the long-awaited successor to one of the world's best-selling synthesizers
“I made some quite 'difficult' sounds that even a pro would struggle to reproduce!"
In the new issue of Computer Music, we speak to composer Petri Alanko about scoring the sublime Alan Wake 2, organising his synths and developing 'classical trance’
NAMM 2024: “Zebralette 3 will become one of the most comprehensive wavetable generation tools available, and like its predecessor, it'll be free” - u-he is releasing the cutdown version of its new synth before the full-blown Zebra 3
NAMM 2024: Yamaha's Seqtrak is an all-in-one synth, drum machine, sampler and sequencer that could be an affordable rival to Teenage Engineering's OP-1
"It sounds like a drum machine instead of a machine playing drums - a sore disappointment": What critics said about the iconic Roland TR-909 drum machine on its release (and how they actually helped define dance music today)
"To say its arrival was earth-shaking would be no exaggeration" : why, 40 years on, the Yamaha DX7 was the most important release in synth history, even though it did "make your head dribble"
Digitalis is an audio degradation plugin that looks like it was made in 1984 and mimics the sound of bad converters and catastrophic errors, but don’t let that put you off
How to master your synths: "If you really want to get to know a synth, the best thing you can do is read the manual, test out each element and get a feel for how each feature affects the sound"
This 'experimental' new DAW has a ton of innovative features that we haven't seen anywhere else: "This is something that should have existed for years"
Celebrate Bob Moog’s birthday by playing a free online Minimoog stuffed with classic presets from songs by Phil Collins, Beastie Boys, Radiohead, Air, Kate Bush, Wings and more
How to use vintage samplers in a modern studio: "You can pick up a classic sampler for a fraction of their original cost, and adding one to your rig opens up a whole new world of sound design possibilities"
It’s coming in the air tonight: Cherry Audio releases its first drum machine, a plugin emulation of the Roland CR-78, as used by Phil Collins and Hall & Oates
"I try out ideas that might be too weird otherwise": version 3 of Valhalla DSP's Supermassive is the most "super massive-est" yet, and it's still completely free!