Latest articles by Andy Price
Void & Vista's software instruments are "pieces of art for people to make art with"
We sit down with the brains behind Strands and Folds, two Kontakt instruments that caught our attention with a wildly imaginative approach to sound design
“I love figuring out not just what ‘should’ this album be, but what ‘could’ it be”: Katie Tavini on the secrets behind top-class mastering
A ubiquitous name in the world of mastering, Katie Tavini’s intuitive senses and aptitude for bringing out the best in a huge array of music has been rightly praised
Reason's Mattias Häggström: "We’re leaning into what our main strengths are"
We sit down with Reason's Product Manager to find out more about the DAW's latest update and their plans for the future
Jess Camilleri: "MIA was actually my first engineering session!"
From engineering the likes of Rudimental and GoldLink at Strongroom Studios to her career as an MPG award-nominated engineer and producer, Jess Camilleri is one of the recording industry’s most impressive new talents
"I love artists who have a rawness to their sound": Kit Grill on the dangers of 'over-producing'
Kit Grill’s most recent release, Swimming in Honey concludes a journey of bold aural adventuring with the addition of vocals to the mix
Moonilena on hardware vs software and why she loves the "hiss" on her Yamaha TG33
We spoke to the Stockholm-based creative about her technical approach to her aural constructs and the genesis of her captivating new album, Minnet
Cableguys: "Our aim with ShaperBox is to make it easy for any producer to get complex-sounding results, all in one plugin"
We sit down with the developers behind ShaperBox and Kickstart to find out more about their modulation-mad multi-effects plugins
“I broke the cardinal sins of vocal production - five compressors maxed out on a chain”: Iglooghost speaks on his love of Reason, and the seaside town that inspired his chaotic new album
The latest record, Tidal Memory Exo is an uncompromising yet absorbing listen, helmed by one of the most uniquely talented – and unique-sounding – artists we’ve ever spoken to
"It’s the best reverb for the buck, in the world": Composer Jason Graves on his go-to reverb plugin
After scoring Dead Space and Call of Duty, Graves' latest video game project takes him offshore to a monster-infested oil rig
Ray Volpe: “Sometimes I won’t touch Ableton for two months, then I’ll be in there every day for 14 hours a day cranking out four crazy ideas back to back”
We caught up with bass music titan Ray Volpe to discover how he assembles his brand of crowd-pleasing ultra-bangers fully in-the-box…
We sit down with Bitwig for a roundtable discussion to mark ten years of their remarkable DAW
The Bitwig team join us to reflect on a decade of developing the music production software that's redefining the DAW
Kasbo on keeping things simple in the studio and working on his own terms
Birthed from an agonising stress-related hearing loss, and put together in an ABBA-backed prison-turned studio, Kasbo’s third album, The Learning of Urgency is a potent, melody-infused statement from an artist in ascendance
Former Spitfire Audio CEO Will Evans on new music tech company Song Athletics: "We’re making tools for music-makers, but coming from a place of having a broader interest in sound and the love of music and recording"
Since launching in 2023, Song Athletics has released sample packs, a plugin and even a coffee range - but where is the brand headed next?
"On every laptop you have access to every sound you could ever want. That can make creativity hard": Peel
Forging a close bond as two-thirds of international superstars, Foster the People, Sean Cimino and Isom Innis have embarked on a parallel life as Peel. The pair’s debut LP Acid Star showcases the breadth of their unfettered sonic ambitions…
Catching Flies shows us how to breathe life into digital-sounding synth patches
"This technique is very simple, but I use it on most tracks..."
Modalics: "Our dream is to change how people create music digitally"
We sat down with the brains behind Beat Scholar, EON-Arp and the new Time-Oddity Chorus
Catching Flies: “By the time you’ve patched a hardware synth, found the right cable, turned it on and tuned it – you’ve lost the idea”
Manipulating samples into abstract new forms, Catching Flies has emerged with a creative identity all of his own. We sat down with the producer to find out more about his latest release, Tides
Kölsch: "I have this obsession with instruments that don’t sound very good"
Danish house and techno artist Kölsch’s latest album, I Talk To Water, incorporates recordings by his late musician father and explores the emotional weight of grief. We found out more about its conception…
"I come from the old-school, the analogue tape and mixing desk-era - but with software, you have so much potential for playing around": The Orb spin-off Sedibus on new project SETI, manipulating samples and the evolution of technology
Detaching from The Orb mothership, Sedibus is the latest project of core figurehead Alex Paterson, accompanied by former Orb-member and key creative collaborator Andy Falconer
8 of the best new immersive audio plugins for 2024
GEAR EXPO 2024: Here are our picks of some of the slickest routes to creating and mixing in surround or 3D sound
"I started hallucinating whispers that weren't part of the composition - it was intense": Maria W Horn on spectral synthesis, recording in a former prison and her love of SuperCollider
Through instrumental textures, room responses, the human voice and a specialised computer language, Maria W Horn explores sound's spectral properties. We heard more about her processes and the chilling story behind her affecting new album, Panoptikon
"Platforms don't need to be complex, or for someone to be hoovering up that much of the income": Wavetick on their new artist and producer-focused sample marketplace
Promising an artist-focused service that gives musicians, beatmakers and producers a free marketplace to trade their sonic wares, Wavetick aims to disrupt the current sample website paradigm in the creator’s favour. Let’s find out more…
Leapwing Audio: “The first person I asked for an opinion on our products was Bob Katz. I was convinced he’d find something wrong with it - he came back and said that it was the best-sounding thing he’d heard”
Leapwing's intuitive, incisive plugins let users perform forensic mix surgery with ease and emulate the tones of iconic producers. We spoke to Product Manager Robin Reumers to find out more
Ableton Live 12 is here: everything you need to know - new devices, MIDI additions, workflow changes and more
The next edition of Live has landed with a new synth, MIDI tools, a refreshed interface and more
Composer Petri Alanko on scoring Alan Wake 2, building his own instruments and his 2000-strong plugin collection: "You start following a tiny lead and it can bring you into this marvellous, different world"
Petri Alanko built a score for Alan Wake 2 that harnessed an arsenal of plugins with DIY instruments and a huge array of hardware and software synths. We spoke to Petri about his idiosyncratic approach