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Neil Peart called him 'the Wood Whisperer' and now he's blended metal and timber in DW's new SonicPly shells
Fusing up to 12 plies of wood with two plies of aluminum they promise presence and power like no other
Piano basics: the black notes - what are they for and how do you use them?
Fear of a black key?… Don't be afraid. Adding flats and sharps to your music will give it a new lease of life.
"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
“Pigments is becoming so powerful it risks making the V Collection look obsolete”: Arturia Pigments review
With physical modelling and a vocoder among the additions for Pigments 6, we explore why Arturia’s flagship softsynth is very much worth your time in 2025
Omar recalls the unusual reason why his first attempt to record with Stevie Wonder came to nothing
“So that was the end of that session,” he remembers
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
“Due to digital, music now has a terrible sort of housewifely tidiness”: Brian Eno on sonic perfectionism, Bowie and his new collaborative double album
We visit Brian Eno in the studio to find out more about Luminal and Lateral, a collaborative project with conceptual artist Beatie Wolfe
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
