Latest articles by Matt Mullen
"A tape delay plugin that finally sounds like the real thing": Heritage Audio takes on the legendary Echoplex with its TAPEoPLEX plugin
Favoured by Brian May, Jimmy Page and Joe Satriani, the Echoplex is one of history's most iconic effects units
Arturia launches MiniFreak Vocoder Edition and drops firmware update for existing owners
The new edition of MiniFreak comes in a white/orange paint-job with a detachable 30cm gooseneck mic - but if you already own a MiniFreak, you can still use the new vocoder
Codec, one of our favourite free lo-fi plugins, just got an update
Lese's Codec repurposes a real-time audio coding standard designed for internet voice communications to produce a crunchy, chaotic and digitally degraded sound
"They should’ve been honoured. It would have sounded better than any rubbish song they wrote": The unbelievable story of Aphex Twin's laziest remix
"I just sped the whole song up so it was like a half-second long, which took ages, but I made it into one sound: a snare drum"
"No complicated signal routing, no phase issues, no stress": Time Off Audio's Dime [ms] makes mid/side easy
This time-saving plugin host makes it a breeze to employ mid/side processing with any of your existing AU/VST3 effects
Ethel Cain's ethereal new song features a Yamaha DX7S heard on the Twin Peaks soundtrack
The singer-songwriter was inspired by a viral video of Twin Peaks composer Angelo Badalamenti explaining how he and Lynch dreamt up Laura Palmer's Theme
Teenage Engineering is letting you choose your own price for the OP-1 Field
The ever-mischievous Swedish brand is giving you the chance to pay what you want for its divisive mini-synth/sampler... but there's a catch
"I just mixed some sandpaper together for a bit and then played a food mixer": The unlikely story of Aphex Twin's weirdest gig
Microphones in blenders, sandpaper on the decks and a potential lawsuit - it's just your average Aphex Twin show
This AI-powered plugin could be a game-changingly useful tool for drum production
Acon Digital's Remix:Drums separates drum recordings into individual stems in real-time, giving you precise control over each percussive element in a mix
"Raw, warm, and beautifully expressive": Rhodes releases Wurli, a virtual instrument based on the Wurlitzer 200A
"A deeply musical recreation of the iconic reed-based electric piano sound that shaped some of the most enduring records of the past five decades"
Excite Audio's Motion: Fractal plugin is a granular powerhouse for twisting, stretching and scattering sounds
The latest effects plugin from Excite Audio bolsters dual granular engines with a trance gate, beat repeat and reverb modules, all controlled via a unique hexagonal interface
"It’s a weird kind of wanky tech-bro nightmare future": Thom Yorke on AI
"Is AI capable of genuine original creative thought? I have yet to see that," says the Radiohead frontman
Waves pivots from plugins to samples with subscription-based AI text-to-sound generator
Illugen is a desktop app that Waves says can "generate sounds that have never existed"
Why Bon Iver chose a "hideous" $199 Ibanez rejected by a rehab centre over a vintage Martin for Speyside
"I was like, 'what's the story with this guitar, because it is god ugly'"
Universal Audio is giving the $199 PolyMAX synth plugin away for free - but not for long
"With PolyMAX, you are harnessing a massively influential period in synth history - the polysynth era when Prophets, Oberheims, and Jupiters ruled the world"
Tame Impala's ultra-hyped chord-generating synth is back for a second drop - and this time it's international
Telepathic Instruments has announced the release of Orchid's second batch - here's how to get your hands on one
Akai drops major firmware update for Force groovebox with stem separation and plugin support
Billed as the "most significant" update since the product was released, Force 3.5 is available now as a free public beta
Four Tet's next project is an ambient country album with guitarist William Tyler
41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s is due out in September, but Hebden and Tyler have shared an 11-minute instrumental cover of Lyle Lovett's If I Had A Boat
Universal Audio's new plugin emulates a legendary '70s production trick heard on recordings from Queen, AC/DC and Fleetwood Mac
The A-Type Multiband Dynamic Enhancer adds air, sparkle and brightness to vocals and instruments by recreating the classic Dolby A Trick in software
“I knew it was good because I couldn’t get through it without sobbing”: Bon Iver breaks down his duet with Danielle Haim
Justin Vernon and Jim-E Stack crack open the Pro Tools projects for Speyside, Walk Home and If Only I Could Wait for BBC Radio 6 Music
If you're an Ableton Live user, SoundFlow could save you hours of time by replacing complex workflows with the touch of a button
Control your DAW via Stream Deck or smartphone with SoundFlow's new Ableton Live integration
"I snuck in an easter egg that most people don't know about - I don't think anyone's found it yet": Teenage Engineering engineer reveals hidden Pocket Operator feature
The Teenage Engineering team reflects on the development and influence of the Pocket Operator line in recognition of its 10th anniversary
Roland puts 8 classic Boss effects pedals in a new plugin, and there are more to come... but they're only available with a Roland Cloud subscription
The Boss Effects Pedals plugin emulates classic stompboxes like the OD-1 OverDrive, PH-1 Phaser, and DS-1 Distortion
