Spotify DJ is going global because the term “DJ” has lost all meaning & nobody cares...
In Spotify's bleak vision of the future, AI will replace DJs and whisper lovingly in your ear. It will also take requests.
The Bullfrog: a new synth designed by Richie Hawtin & Erica
The Bullfrog is an educational but fully functional hardware synthesizer retailing for €500.
Introducing Korg’s opsix SE
The 61 key version of Korg's opsix aspires to become one of the best FM synthesizers ever.
Introducing Roland’s S-1 Tweak Synth
Hardware for the masses: The Aira Compact polysynth is inspired by the legendary Roland SH-101, capturing the sound of Voodoo Ray in a compact AIRA compatible tweak synth.
After Moog: The most depressing story in the industry gets worse
A storied company continues to gut staff and reportedly shift product manufacturing overseas under new ownership.
Dropbox puts a hard limit on “unlimited” storage
DJs and producers and others pooling storage were violating TOS all along.
Velvet Machine is a little plugin that makes a big sonic blur
Velvet Machine is simple but not ordinary. It is one of several plugins designed by Yuri Turov which manipulates a sound by stretching and blurring it, somewhat similar to continuous reverb.
How to play hi rez audio on an iPhone
Want to listen to a wav or aiff file on your iPhone? Flacbox is a cheap, simple app that makes it easy.
iOS synth Zeeon sparkles on the Mac too
The best kept secret of the iOS platform, Zeeon from BeepStreet runs like a charm on Mac and macOS too.
What’s new in Arturia’s MiniLab 3?
What can you expect from a $100 MIDI controller? It's small, it's compact, but the MiniLab 3 is made by Arturia and that counts for a lot.
Focal’s Bathys headphones are a cut above Apple’s top wireless HiFi noice-cancelling cans
French company Focal's Bathys wireless headphones with noise cancellation features are priced to challenge Apple for the HiFi mobile market.
Plunging into the nerdy world of the Audulus synthesizer environment
Audulus is a very flexible synthesizer programming environment. It’s a toolbox for creating your own synthesizers, sound effects, filters - anything that has to do with creation or manipulation of sound
LALAL.AI is AI-aided sampling that actually works (until the RIAA takes it down)
AI-based sampling apps are proliferating but the music industry is sharpening their knives.
Other Desert Cities is the wildest reverb machine on Earth
Even with the most basic, out-of-the-box settings, I’ve never heard anything as odd and freaky from a reverb plugin as what I made from passing simple chords through the reverbic chaos of Other Desert Cities.
Turntables are basically expensive paperweights now
Since Technics and Pioneer are pricing turntables like they're collectors items, you might as well get the emperor's clothes of record decks - the one that's invisible to the eye and makes incredible promises about its sound
Roland wins $4.6 million in tortuous patent lawsuit
The judgment against the parent company of Alesis covers electronic drum technology and might represent a renewed defense of its technology against product clones.
Spotify cancels the “dumbest product in the world”
Dropped after just 5 months, Car Thing was another multi-million dollar swindle Spotify chased instead of paying musicians fairly
Acid Redux: Donner debuts with a 303 clone
Chinese brand Donner's first synth is an inexpensive remake of the classic Roland TB-303. Is it worth it?
Making interstellar ambient loops with SpaceFields
5 Mag reviews SpaceFields, a fascinating and useful app for making pulsating, rhythmic sound structures in deep reverb space.
Moog updates the Etherwave Theremin for the 21st Century
The Theremin - the first mass-produced electronic instrument - gets a modern make-over.
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