IK Multimedia MODO is brewing up some physical modelling

11 Oct 2016 in Studio

Physical modelling the likes of which we've never experienced, or so they say. IK Multimedia is getting real with MODO and I'm hoping it's not just a bass guitar.

Reactable ROTOR gets touchy-feely on the iPad

11 Oct 2016 in Synths, Studio

Reactable brings its object orientated music making to the iPad in the ROTOR app with some tangible knobs to play with directly on the glass.

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Dark Matter: Unsettling sounds from String Audio

10 Oct 2016 in Synths

Dark Matter is chillier than the icicle hanging from an alien monster's beard who is about to jump out at you from behind a disturbingly shaped landscape dripping with the terrors of a thousand haunted worlds.

Kastle, the mini modular synthesizer from Bastl

10 Oct 2016 in Synths

It's a battery powered, pocket Kastle synth with 3 modes of messing with oscillators, loads of patch points and wants to modulate anything you plug it into.

Arturia DrumBrute analogue drum synthesizer – officially released

07 Oct 2016 in Synths

Here's the real official information on the DrumBrute, Arturia's kicking new analogue drum machine that makes ladies dance.

Leaked! Arturia DrumBrute analogue drum machine

07 Oct 2016 in Synths

Arturia are about to launch DrumBrute, an analogue drum machine. We have the full leaked scoop before the official launch - NOW WITH VIDEO

Qu-Bit Rhythm – 4 channel pattern generator for Eurorack

06 Oct 2016 in Synths

Pull some genre drum patterns into your modular with the infinitely variable Rhythm. Does it take the fun or the work out of crafting percussion?

Learn to make beats at the first UK MPC Training Centre

06 Oct 2016 in Studio

A Level 1 qualification in MPC beat making? Now there's something to put on your CV.

SLOW from Tim Exile is a reverb for sloths

05 Oct 2016 in Studio

I Picked up my guitar and now I'm drifting off into some kind of other worldly place of mesmeric paradise - SLOW is a really very long reverb by Tim Exile.

PreSonus are getting weird with their new teaser campaign

05 Oct 2016 in Studio

What is the guy in the tash trying to steal? What do the three lines mean? And why does it have a George Foreman Grill built it? Wtf PreSonus?

Behringer augment reality with Deep Mind 12 and HoloLens

05 Oct 2016 in Synths

The Behringer Midas engineers have been playing with Microsoft's HoloLens. Is this the future or just so much arm ache?

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Parawave Audio layer up the sounds with Rapid

04 Oct 2016 in Synths

Rapid is a modern polyphonic hybrid synthesizer that's fatter than a fat man swimming in lard.

Free Brainworx guitar tone in bx_rockrack V3 Player

04 Oct 2016 in Studio, Guitar

Here's some seriously free guitar tone for your DAW with bx_rockrack V3 Player - 8 amp models and 26 presets, just don't touch those dials.

D16 Repeater – the ultimate delay plug-in?

03 Oct 2016 in Studio

A dual delay featuring 23 vintage models is announced as a collaboration between D16 and Slate Digital. Is the Repeater every delay you ever wanted or do you just have a bad case of wind?

SynthFest UK 2016: Show Report

03 Oct 2016 in Synths

A round up of all the fabulous synthesizers and modular on display at the Sheffield SynthFest. The industry is changing, you could feel it in the circuits.

Experience the newly restored first recording of computer music

01 Oct 2016 in Other

Is all computer music a direct descendant of Alan Turing's Electronic Computer Mark II? Listen to the newly restored first beeps of EDM from the 1950's.

SSL Nucleus2: DAW controller, interface and more

30 Sep 2016 in Studio

An update to the Nucleus DAW controller and interface brings better monitoring, talkback and a Dante connection.

KRK present new incarnation of the V Series monitors at AES

30 Sep 2016 in Studio

KRK's most extensively researched and developed powered nearfield monitors, the latest incarnation of the V Series offers critically accurate reproduction in black and yellow.

iZotope invent Auto-Mix with Neutron (almost!)

29 Sep 2016 in Studio

Neutron will suggest EQ nodes, recommend compression thresholds, saturation types and carve out sonic spaces for automatically detected instruments - but it's certainly not auto-mixing

Is Spotify about to buy Soundcloud?

29 Sep 2016 in Other

A report in the Financial Times says that Spotify and Soundcloud are in talks about a potential buy out. How likely and how helpful is that going to be?

Jussi the Vocal Synthesizer steps up to the mic

28 Sep 2016 in Synths

Explore the male throat of Jussi in this voice and vowel emulating synthesizer

Bomebox MIDI scripting, merging and routing thing

28 Sep 2016 in Synths, Studio

Complex MIDI setups are not everyone's cup of tea but for some the Bomebox ability to fire MIDI scripts about the place over multiple MIDI connections could be very handy.

Focusrite RED 8Pre – the ultimate interface?

28 Sep 2016 in Studio

64 inputs and outputs; Thunderbolt, Pro Tools HD and Dante; mic, line and instrument; ADAT, S/PDIF and Word Clock; the Red 8Pre has got it all in every colour as long as its red.

Kontrol Master by Touch Innovations finally ships

27 Sep 2016 in Studio

In an unexpected eureka moment I finally understand what the Kontrol Master is trying to do. Let me have a go at explaining what Touch Innovations seem unable to get across and it's actually quite good.