Latest articles by Matt Mullen
Sonicware's LIVEN Evoke is a "nostalgia-evoking ambient music box" fusing acoustic and electronic sounds
The next synth in the Japanese manufacturer's super-affordable LIVEN series is billed as a "deeply expressive tool for composing cinematic ambient and post-classical music"
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
Teenage Engineering has designed an electric moped - and it's cheaper than the OP-XY synth
Are they taking us for a ride?
Music Production for Women announces free workshops in London, Dublin, Amsterdam and Berlin
Taking place throughout July, the beginner-oriented events will cover subjects such as beat programming, synthesis and audio effects
"It’s been a tough few years": UK gear retailer PMT closes its doors, makes 96 staff redundant and sells £2.4m of stock to Gear4Music
Just a few months after Brighton-based GAK closed down, another UK musical instrument retailer enters administration
Arturia's Mix DRUMS is an "all-in-one" drum processor that promises punchy, pro-sounding drums without the fuss
Co-developed with producer Emre Ramazanoglu, Mix DRUMS brings together dynamics, distortion, tone-shaping and much more in a one-stop shop for drum mixing
Teenage Engineering's TX-6, TP-7 and CM-15 are back in black
New sleek, matte-black versions of Teenage Engineering's TX-6 mixer, TP-7 field recorder and CM-15 microphone are now shipping
This “world’s first” AI-powered plugin controller could take the headache out of manual MIDI mapping for good
"No menu diving stealing your time. No manual mapping killing your flow. Dialr is always mapped and always ready"
"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"
