Arturia’s Flagship V9 Collection In Review

Arturia's returns with their brand new V Collection 9, packed with a number of new plugins and presets. Arturia is back with a significant refresh to their flagship instrument plug-in bundle. Including 14,000 presets from a stable of respected sound designers, four new instruments, and notable revamps to some of their most beloved emulations,...

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Tom Santa May 22 Chart

Top ten for May from Tom Santa featuring KETTAMA, Tita Lau, Fab Massimo, Tchami and more. Follow Tom Santa [social-links instagram="https://www.instagram.com/tomsanta_/" soundcloud="https://soundcloud.com/tommy-santa" youtube="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_s-2n-gt_vM4-46QGedSsA"] Australian breakout talent Tom Santa has...

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How Prevalent Is Ageism In Dance Music?

We spoke with Fabio, Anja Schneider and I:Robots about the reality of getting old working in dance music. Ageism - prejudice or discrimination on the grounds of a person's age - can be experienced by both the young and the old. How prevalent is it and is it holding people back? With age comes experience which is often overlooked as the...

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The Best Production Courses On Mix With The Masters

In this article, we share with you, five of the best ‘Mix With The Masters’ production classes from Finneas, Sonny Digital, Emilie Haynie, Stargate and Young Guru. 'Therefore I Am' - Billie Eilish Course Tutor: Finneas Class Description Unless you've been living under a rock, Billie Eilish has become one of,...

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Making Techno With Lunacy Cube

In this article, we show you how we used Lunacy Cube to make the musical parts in a techno tune. The market for plugins has grown exponentially over the last ten years. Developers are always looking for ways to find an edge. Award-winning Lunacy Audio, best known for CUBE, landed on a formula that has attractive visual and sonic aspects. ...

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Make A Techno Bassline Using Generate

In this tutorial, we're working with Newfangled Audio's lovely Generate plugin to process a techno bassline. Newfangled Audio’s Generate manages to squeeze most of its functionality into one window, and features some quite familiar-sounding modules such as LFOs, Envelopes and Effects.   As ever don't forget to click on any image to enlarge....

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Pulsar Audio Releases Pulsar Massive An Emulation Of The Manley Massive Passive

One of the most revered mastering hardware EQs has been emulated by Pulsar Audio and is out today. Pulsar Audio has released Pulsar Massive. The plugin emulates the legendary Manley Massive Passive EQ a four-band, dual-channel, valve passive EQ designed to provide an organic and extremely musical sound even with high settings. It also features...

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Stuttered IDM Hi-Hats With Audiomodern Playbeat 3

In this tutorial we use the full power of Playbeat 3’s randomization to program IDM-style dynamic hi-hat and percussion patterns. In our latest tutorial about Audiomodern’s wild sequencer plug-in, we’re going to take randomization to the limit by programming endless hi-hat and percussion patterns. At a fast BPM, this is an ideal process for constructing...

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Celebrate Vangelis With A Vangelis Listening Quiz

Celebrate the life of Vangelis and International Synth Day with this challenging quiz. We recently lost a titan of electronic music, Vangelis. Vangelis was the original synth lord, a wizard always ensconced in his studio, surrounded by banks of synthesizers and effects. As a film composer, he helped bring a sense of gravitas and drama to electronic...

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Techivation Release T-Clarity

One of the newest companies in our world, Techivation, has just released T-Clarity, the follow up to T-Compressor. If you're familiar with Techivation you'll notice T-Clarity broadly follows a similar ethos to their plugin T-De-Esser. T-Clarity enhances and clears the mid, lower, and upper mid-range frequencies of any sound it encounters. ...

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