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A pint-sized analogue monster...

When it comes to soft-synths, there are few names as highly esteemed in the world of production as Arturia’s. This is largely because of their incredibly faithful reproductions of classic synthesisers that are used daily by the biggest names in the game. In recent times, Arturia have taken the bold move of going beyond the virtual world by creating their range of hybrid Spark drum machines and the full-blown DSP monster Origin, which have proven to be extremely popular with the recording community — and for good reason too.

100 years of electronic music

In March 1913 Luigi Russolo, the Italian futurist, stormed out of a classical concert in Milan and published an open letter demanding a new form of modern music.

Spectrasonics new virtual synth Omnisphere 1.5 raises the bar yet again

Spectrasonics have unveiled a major new version of Omnisphere, their flagship virtual synth. This beast has just got even meatier, with a load of new...

Novation joins forces with electronic music pioneer to create a limited edition synth.

Electronic music pioneer Giorgio Moroder joins forces with Novation to release limited edition synthesiser.

Roland’s 909 drum machine is responsible for the rhythm of house and techno, and countless classics of dance and pop. Exactly 35 years after its...

If there’s one instrument that faithfully captures the true spirit and essence of electronic music, it’s the Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer: a machine that has...

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Rex The Dog’s return to Kompakt Records has seen the producer come full circle.

He's set to play at Kompakt’s Off Sonar’s showcase this Friday...

Check out Arturia's new beast of a synth!!!

More post NAMM recaps - The Arturia stand was a hive of activity with them showing off their new MatrixBrute Analogue Synthesiser.

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For this tutorial, Point Blank show how you can sample any instrument and turn it into a VST in Logic Pro, using Auto Sampler.

Auto Sampler...

For the best sounding emulations of classic synths

Following on from the recent success of the iMini — a recreation of the legendary Minimoog for the iPad — Arturia have released iSEM, which...

The polyphonic synth is composed of two parts, 16 voices and 61 keys, featuring the same five-octave keyboard implemented with the predecessor SL MkIII MIDI...

Novation have shared the first look at their eagerly anticipated Summit synthesiser, through a Beats & Bites livestream which can now be viewed on Youtube...

No one piece of gear defines a producer, but that doesn't mean there isn't one we find ourselves going back to over and over. We...

Check out new track, 'Words', which features on the record below

French producer Alan Braxe, otherwise known as one-third of Stardust, has a new four-track EP on the way.

Titled 'The Ascent', it features a track...

Moroder, Kraftwerk & the Synthesizer

Dance music is a hot place to be place right now. What began as an underground counter-culture has grown, over the last 25 years, into...

Recreating that fat, gritty analogue sound

Waves is a name known to all but the greenest of studio dilettantes as producing some of the finest studio effect plug-ins known to humankind.

“He was a genius and an adventurer”

Don Buchla, the pioneering inventor widely accepted to be the first person to develop a working modular synth, has died at the age of 79...