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
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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?
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
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
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.
Mixvibes introduces Remixlive for Windows
That's something you don't see every day - a port of an iOS app to Windows. Remixlive brings it's sample looping performance magic to Windows with or without touch.
The Legend analogue modeling VSTi from Synapse
26 Sep 2016 in Synths
It's a Minimoog! Sorry for the spoiler but someone had to say it out loud. The Legend is apparently the most meticulously analogue modeling of circuitry ever attempted. What do you think?
Performance Mixer for Eurorack from WMD
26 Sep 2016 in Synths
Take control of your modular outputs and bring the mixing back into your Eurorack with the WMD Performance Mixer.
Stagelight 3 officially released by Open Labs
22 Sep 2016 in Studio
Hooray, it's got a mixer! Plus track freeze, song transfer between devices and OS X compatibility - welcome to Stagelight 3.
Cubasis 2 appears in the iTunes Store
22 Sep 2016 in Studio
Cubasis 2 has appeared on iTunes and there's a video on YouTube.... so it must be out! Steinberg are catching up and we've got the full scoop right here.