The Secrets of Techno Production, a comprehensive 218-page paperback, is now available! Covering techno from its roots to the present day, this highly anticipated follow-up to The Secrets of Dance ...

Roland, together with Outernet London, has announced a brand-new Roland store and customer experience on London’s Denmark St, is now open. The location is intended to offer a full Roland customer ...

You can now find inspiration from Splice’s huge library against the context of your own loops with Splice Create. Splice has announced that subscribers can now use their AI-powered Create engine to ...

Vibe-coded plugins are everywhere but does that mean that they’re actually taking over the market? We look at the trend and speak with two developers working with AI as part of their process. The age ...

The makers of Auto-Tune®, Antares, have announced their new release, Vocal De-Esser. Following on from Vocal Reverb, released last year, Vocal De-Esser is, in some way, the natural next step for ...

In the latest Hardware Focus, we take a look at one of just two late-70s 48-channel API split consoles still in existence. Boulevard Recordings’ very special API 3288 console is an all-American ...

In this article, we show you some beginner modulation techniques to liven up your synth parts using the modulation matrix in Wavetable within Ableton Live. Modulation is a key synthesis element. Good ...

IMS has a way of compressing a year’s worth of industry conversation into a few days. Here’s what cut through for us in 2026. The IMS Business Report points to another year of growth for electronic ...

In this new Passing Notes, we focus on the technique of parallel chords, which are one of the tried and tested means for catchy progressions in dance music. After a brief explanation of the technique ...

In the first installment of a two-part story, we look at the evolution of vocal synthesis, from primitive speech-mimicking machines to modern software vocoders. It all started in 1974 with four ...

How important are a few milliseconds? When it comes to sequencers, they can mean the difference between a perfect groove and a sloppy mess. We talk to drum machine pioneer Roger Linn to discover the ...

Alphabetically? Chronologically? All thrown together in one massive folder called ‘Jamz’? We speak to some DJs about how they organise their music collections. Attack readers come from many different ...