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“It makes it sound like the music that I grew up on – the music that made me fall in love with dance music”: Why Silva Bumpa created his own R&B instrumental just to remix it into the garage-inspired Feel Da Same
Watch the rising UK artist break down his energetic track with vocalist Carla Monroe
FL Studio 2025 introduces AI assistant that offers music production advice and helps you use the DAW
FL's latest update also brings Loop Starter, a feature that automatically loads up a selection of samples based on a chosen genre, a...
Enigmatic producer Burial releases a new 23 minute EP, Comafields and Imaginary Festival
But is he still producing all his tracks in Sony Sound Forge?
“It was confusing to me, even when I did the record. I didn’t know that I was playing it in the wrong place”: Guitarist Daryl Stuermer on why Phil Collins had to set him straight when they were recording In The Air Tonight
“And then he put on this drum fill, which changed everything,” he says of the song's production
Massive X Player is a new free synth plugin that lets users morph and modulate presets from Native Instruments’ wavetable powerhouse
With its new freebie, Native Instruments aims to bring its next-gen Massive to the masses
“I wanted to design something that would not only be capable of but excel at any tone I might need”: Prog metal trailblazer Misha Mansoor teams up with Neural DSP for Archetype plugin suite that nails his Periphery tone – but does so much more
Neural DSP's most ambitious plugin yet? Archetype: Misha Mansoor X collects three amps, virtual stompboxes, from the everyday to exo...
“You can absolutely craft some great mixes on these”: JBL 305P MkII review
JBL's budget studio monitors are priced crazy low and promise good quality mixes that don't cost the earth
“It’s a $20 plugin… I love it because sometimes the problem with digital sounds is they just lack a little bit of character”: Steven Wilson reveals the plugin that’s on “almost all” the guitars on his new space rock epic
And it turns out it is the same affordable plugin Finneas used on Billie Eilish’s Barbie track, What Was I Made For?
“This doesn’t align with our values or our submission requirements”: The Velvet Sundown have been banned from the Future Sound Awards, which celebrate “the responsible use of AI in music”
"We have proactively taken the step to ban the band from entering the awards"
“I’ve been incredibly busy making music… I suppose I’m going to have to share some of it soon”: Damon Albarn teases a new Gorillaz album “in four languages”
Plus he shares his thoughts on the Bob Vylan furore
Universal Audio’s Anthem synth plugin promises to “put the biggest, baddest analogue sounds at your fingertips”
A growling analogue-modelled filter, flexible sequencer and vintage-style modulation effects give UA's new monosynth an edge
“Unlocking the impossible without compromising on creative control”: iZotope Ozone 12 adds new machine learning modules and a more musician-friendly AI assistant
The latest version of iZotope’s mastering suite claims to be more intelligent than ever
“I’m a big preset guy. If a preset’s called Fat Bass, there’s a 90% chance it’s actually a fat bass”: Rico Nasty and Benson Boone producer Imad Royal on saving time and staying focused in the studio
In the next episode of Universal Audio's Apollo Creators series, the Grammy-nominated producer/songwriter unpacks his instinct-drive...
“Found some cassettes in the attic!”: Former Revolution keyboard player Lisa Coleman reveals that she’s just discovered her own ‘vault’ of classic Prince recordings
Will anyone ever get to hear them, though?
“Everybody was screaming out, ‘what record is that?!’ It wasn’t a record – it was the 808”: Roland celebrates 45 years of the TR-808 with Rhythm Creators video series
Episode one premieres today with Egyptian Lover, and later instalments will feature Fatboy Slim, Prince Paul and Soul II Soul's Jazz...
It might be a little ugly, but Lambda Synthetics’ PolyPulse could be the instrument that finally breaks you out of the 16-step grid
Is that a control panel at a Soviet-era nuclear power plant? No, it's an algorithmic performance workstation
“I’ve always thought of it as a tapestry. A visual puzzle”: Luxxury needs to visualise music to nurture creativity – here’s why
“The way I was built was – even though it’s music – I had to see on the page what all the ideas were so I could allocate them proper...
Eventide is giving away a killer $99 distortion plugin for free
A lo-fi powerhouse with a few tricks up its sleeve, CrushStation delivers everything from "creamy saturation to brutal sonic assault...
PMT placed into administration, all stores closed with immediate effect
The company had been facing a number of industry-wide struggles, including the pressure of rising rent and business rates. The post...