Ambient Sound Design With Moog Grandmother And Ableton Live

The Moog Grandmother is surprisingly flexible for a single-oscillator monosynth. We use a Dark Series edition Grandmother to create a Boards Of Canada-style ambient track in Ableton Live. We don’t often think of monosynths as being flexible. They’re great for bass and leads and the occasional whooshy effect but for wildly deep synthesis, we’re...

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Lake Night

For a debut album, 'Bound' by Lake Night has a host of impressive collaborators. The album features the late great Miles Cooper Seaton, Maria Uzor, Roxanne de Bastion and Leo Duncan. We asked Lake Night to introduce himself and his wide-ranging electronic sound. Who are you? I am David aka Lake Night, an electronic musician and producer....

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We’re Giving Away 4 Arturia MiniFuse Audio Interfaces

Can you tell the difference between a DrumBrute, a MicroBrute, MicroFreak and Pigments? It's time to find out with this month's competition. Take part in a quick quiz that tests your ears and eyes for Arturia and be in with a chance to win a MiniFuse audio interface. We have 4 separate units to giveaway! In this month’s quiz, we’ve teamed up...

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Rebecca Goldberg Oct 21 Chart

Detroit producer & DJ Rebecca Goldberg’s top ten for September 2021 includes tracks from Kero, ITNA, Ali Berger & more. Follow Rebecca Goldberg [social-links instagram="https://www.instagram.com/313acidqueen/"] Producer, DJ, and graphic designer hailing from Detroit. Affiliated with the multidisciplinary arts collective,...

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Dirtying Up A Mix With Lo-Fi Texture And Vibe

We use Baby Audio’s Super VHS to add a faded lo-fi vibe to a house track. There’s no denying that modern in-the-box music production has made things much more convenient. However, some might say that we’ve lost something sonically in the move to digital. Hardware mixing desks, recording to tape, semi-working effects and instruments - these all...

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3 Quick Ways To Program Basslines On An UNO Synth Pro

We use the onboard sequencer on the desktop model of IK Multimedia’s UNO Synth Pro to quickly whip up three house and techno basslines. Unless you’re a hardcore DAWless jammer, we pretty much all rely on the sequencers in our DAWs. They’re powerful and centralized so why would ever need anything else? Well, there’s something to be said for programming...

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LDLDN Oct 21

NTS resident LDLDN selects his top ten for Oct 2021, including tracks from Alinka, Madteo, Kyle Hall and more… Follow LDLDN [social-links instagram="https://www.instagram.com/ldldn_/" twitter= "https://twitter.com/LDLDN"] If there was anything positive to come out of the last 18 months, it's been the torrent of brilliant...

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Stephan Bodzin ‘Boavista’ Track By Track

Stephan Bodzin has just released 'Boavista' a 17 track synth odyssey. We asked him to run us through a handful of his favourite tracks. If you're not a fan of Arturia then look away now... A large part of 'Boavista' was created while Stephan spent time in Brazil last year. Having been inspired to write 'Rose' after losing his mum, whilst simultaneously...

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Kevin Saunderson: “Techno: it’s hard to explain, but you really just got to feel it”

Kevin Saunderson has just dropped a remixed version of his classic E-Dancer material, a project that directly links current producers with some original Detroit techno artists. We spoke to the Detroit techno pioneer about the importance of techno history, white-washing in the industry and that indefinable essence of the music of Detroit.  'Re-Generate'...

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Roland Announces the SP-404MKII

Originally leaked on Reddit last week, the SP-404MKII SP sampler is now been officially announced. Roland announces the SP-404MKII Creative Sampler and Effector, the latest generation model in the legendary SP compact sampler series. Having had a Reddit leak last week, there was growing interest in exactly what Roland would release....

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