Latest articles by Matt Mullen
Spotify co-president says AI-generated music is welcome on the streaming platform
Gustav Söderström says Spotify will host AI-generated music, but won't generate its own, warning that other streaming services could generate AI music in-house - at the expense of real musicians
Tame Impala's new instrument company reveals chord-generating keyboard Orchid
Telepathic Instruments gives us a closer look at its debut product - but what exactly is it?
Slate + Ash's Primaries / Strings brings together breathtaking solo strings with a powerful sound design engine
Transform a vast library of expressive string articulations into evolving textures and layered soundscapes with the inaugural software instrument in Slate + Ash's new Primaries series
Brian Eno to share creative ‘avant gardening’ tips in new online workshop
Producer will also ponder whether music "should still be called music"
Teenage Engineering's OP-XY is a hybrid of OP-Z and OP-1... and costs more than the two of them combined
The elusive Swedish brand's new groovebox puts the advanced sequencing capabilities of the OP-Z in an OP-1-style form factor with an OLED screen and beefed-up specs
Wave Alchemy's Magic7 emulates a $4,000 Bricasti M7 reverb - and it's giving the plugin away for free
Magic7 features 11 reverb types and 234 presets inspired by the Bricasti Design Model 7 Stereo Reverb Processor
Are you a sampling genius? Win $10,000 and have your track released on Ninja Tune with Tracklib's Sample Breakdown competition
To celebrate the launch of the competition, Tracklib have broken down the most iconic electronic music sample of each year since 1990 in a new video
Capture the sound of renowned composer Max Richter's piano with SRM Sounds' free Dark Mode instrument
Based on processed recordings of Richter's Steinway Concert Grand, Dark Mode has a soft and atmospheric tone that'll sit unobtrusively in the background of a mix
Black Friday plugin deals 2024: Get your hands on the biggest savings ahead of Cyber Weekend
Get ahead of the game with my top tips on how to get the most out of your plugin deals shopping
Native Instruments' Claire captures the sound of the world's largest grand piano in production
This new Kontakt instrument is based on meticulously recorded samples of a "world-class" 10-foot Fazioli concert grand
Waves is teasing a free plugin to be dropped on Black Friday - sign up today to be first in line
It's the most wonderful time of year to bag a freebie
Steinberg launches Cubase 14 with new pattern editor, drum machine, effects, modulators and more
The latest version of Steinberg's flagship DAW has arrived
"We can't quite believe that this is free!": 7 of the coolest free plugins we discovered this month
Our monthly round-up of free plugins continues with spectral warping, chaotic break-slicers and a malfunctioning Minimoog
Dreadbox unveils Artemis, a 6-voice analogue poly inspired by the Typhon monosynth
The Greek brand celebrates its 10th anniversary with the release of a beastly analogue poly kitted out with Sinevibes effects
Teenage Engineering's OP-XY is on the way - but what could this OP-Z successor look like?
FCC filings indicate that a Bluetooth-equipped product with the name OP-XY has been approved for sale in the United States
“That’s all I had. FL Studio and four plugins made Midnight Request Line”: Skream on how he made the track that put dubstep on the map
We sit down with Oliver Jones to hear about his studio set-up, how going sober has affected his music-making, and the stock plugin behind dubstep anthem Midnight Request Line
Is Teenage Engineering about to release a new product to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Kraftwerk's Autobahn?
Will it be a Kraftwerk-themed EP-133 K.O. II, or is it the OP-XY?
Bootsy Collins' bass guitar, Farfisa organ and Yamaha DX7 go up for sale along with a collection of memorabilia
Offering a "rare window into Bootsy's brief run with the Godfather of Soul", the Bootsy Collins Collection also features a $5 fine issued to Collins by James Brown Productions
How a 67-year-old pensioner went viral performing industrial techno at home
What started as a post-retirement hobby has led The Last DJ to runaway success and his first gig in 40 years. Now he's on a mission to inspire others to do the same
AlphaTheta promises to "free your inner DJ" with DDJ-FLX2, its lightest and most compact DJ controller yet
Aimed at those learning to DJ, this beginner DJ controller makes executing blends and transitions easy with Smart Fader and Smart CFX
How Darude created Sandstorm, the era-defining trance anthem that’s named after a synth preset
Love it or hate it, Sandstorm’s relentless lead synth line must be one of the most recognizable melodies in dance music. Darude tells DJ Mag how the iconic track was made
iZotope's Neutron 5 adds 3 new plugins and makes its AI-powered Mix Assistant "faster and smarter"
This ever-expanding suite of intelligent mixing tools gets a flexible clipper, an upward compressor, and targeted processing with new Mid/Side and Transient/Sustain modes
SSL releases Halloween-themed free plugin X-Orcism II: Voices from the Crypt
This spooky vocal processor and multi-effects plugin incorporates a delay, reverb, pitch-shifter and noise generator
"I’m not checking my emails on stage!": Autechre hit back against critics of electronic artists that perform with laptops
“Are you mad? Somebody's handed you this multi-tool that you can do anything with and you're going to be like, ‘no, I want to play a keyboard because I'm a musician’”
“Can you put a banjo in a dubstep drop?”: Jacob Collier teams up with Google to launch AI-powered music creation tool MusicFX DJ
"You craft this real-time sonic putty that’s endlessly surprising, and essentially seeks to alchemize or forge connections between things that would otherwise be unlikely"