Latest articles by Matt Mullen
"You'll make so much bad music, and that's great": Tourist's advice for aspiring producers
We visited the electronic artist in the studio ahead of the release of his fifth album and he left us with some hard-won wisdom for artists in the early stages of their careers
Best beginner DJ controllers 2024: Top picks for budding mix masters
Entry-level devices for rekordbox, Serato, Traktor and more - perfect for beginner DJs
Dawesome's MYTH looks like one of the most innovative soft synths released in 2024 so far
Designed to encourage adventurous sonic exploration, MYTH uses machine learning to resynthesize samples into complex oscillators and transform their timbre
"That new synth you all been waiting on, on its first album": Watch Mike Dean shredding the forthcoming Moog Muse synth in its first ever demo
The producer shared a demo of the unreleased instrument to his Instagram page and confirmed it features on Metro Boomin and Future's WE STILL DON'T TRUST YOU
Is Shure's MV7+ the best microphone for podcasters, YouTubers and content creators?
With handy new DSP-based features and an LED level meter, Shure has cooked up something special for content creators
Antares' Auto-Tune Pro can now do four-part harmonies in real-time with your MIDI keyboard
Released this week, the latest version of Auto-Tune Pro can layer up to four notes of tuned vocal simultaneously in response to MIDI input
"Everything was so heavy at the time, so I was like, ‘Oh, you know what? I’m gonna completely do the opposite’": How Pharrell's pop production defined the sound of the ’00s and beyond
Producer, pop star, and pioneer Pharrell Williams' "skeleton songs" stripped music back to its bare essentials and prized the hook above all else
Meet AstroLab, Arturia's greatest hits in a stage keyboard: 34 instruments, 10 synth engines and 1300 presets
This 61-key, semi-weighted keyboard takes the best of the company's revered collection of software and puts it on the stage
Arturia teases mysterious extraterrestrial announcement to be revealed at livestream event: "25 years, and beyond"
"A new era awaits, and you're invited to witness its dawn"
Stability AI's music generator can now edit and transform your samples and produce full-length, structured tracks
Now with the ability to process audio uploaded by the user, Stable Audio 2.0 is edging closer to becoming a revolutionary tool for music-makers
Song Athletics drops Sloppy Drums sample pack inspired by J Dilla and Madlib: "Beautifully captured and behind (and before) the beat in all the right ways"
The next sample pack from ex-Spitfire CEO Will Evans' new company is made up of loose and limber drum patterns fit for use in hip-hop and neo-soul
"This assault on human creativity must be stopped": Pearl Jam, Stevie Wonder, Billie Eilish and 200 more artists call for protections against threat of AI
"We must protect against the predatory use of AI to steal professional artists' voices and likenesses, violate creators' rights, and destroy the music ecosystem," reads an open letter from the Artist Rights Alliance
Kelly Moran: "An important aspect of my work is trying to preserve my own humanity, even if I'm using technology to help me do it"
Pianist, producer and Warp Records artist Kelly Moran abandons the prepared piano and extended techniques that defined her early work to duet with a self-playing Yamaha Disklavier on new project Moves in the Field
"Collage is a thousand audio effects in one": Randomize your effects and get unexpected results with this quirky, colourful multi-effects plugin from Kalide
With a unique UI for each effects preset that deliberately avoids explanation, Collage invites artistic experimentation
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
As easy as MPC: Blipblox myTRACKS is a simplified groovebox for kids (and big kids, too)
Aimed at children as young as three years old, myTRACKS has been "crafted to eliminate complexity and maximize fun"
Google's AI-powered Instrument Playground lets you play and sample over 100 instruments from across the globe: "Have you ever played the Dizi from China?"
Initially launched in December, the browser-based tool is now available in the UK
"Hands down the best Amiga emulation I've ever used!": This old-school sampling plugin gets you the retro sound of the Commodore Amiga for only £10
PotenzaDSP's Amigo Sampler nails the "authentic crunch" of the Amiga and offers classic Akai-style time-stretching too
Aodyo's Loom is a "multi-dimensional" MPE MIDI controller with four different performance modes, and you can even design your own
Available in 2-octave and 3-octave versions, Loom has already surpassed its €50,000 target on Kickstarter
Minimal marvel or beige and boring? Vongon's Replay is likely to divide synth-heads with its unique aesthetic
This new virtual analogue synth from Vongon sounds great, but does it put style over substance?
James Blake launches Vault, a direct artist-to-fan streaming platform for unreleased music: "The concept of subscribing to an artist directly can change the game"
"I wanted to find a way for musicians to make money directly from the music they make"
"I'm just a soul trapped in this circuitry": Listen to a scarily realistic AI-generated blues song produced by "ChatGPT for music"
Suno is an AI music generator developed by alumni of Meta and TikTok, and its latest update is astonishingly sophisticated
Minimal Audio flexes its modulation muscles with Flex Chorus, a 24-voice, multi-band chorus plugin with two unique modes
Flex Chorus is capable of producing everything from scene-stealing unison effects to subtle stereo enhancement
