Soundwide, parent of Native Instruments and iZotope, lays off approximately 8% of staff
Soundwide on Wednesday laid off approximately 8% of their employees, across their stable of brands. That means at least one...
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Surge XT hybrid synth is now a free set of modules for VCV Rack
Free meets free: in a labor-of-love community project, soft synth Surge XT is now available as an exquisitely designed set...
New Noise Engineering: Jam Jam trigger, polyphony-friendly envelopes, more swappability
Noise Engineering has added new Eurorack hardware: Jam Jam 6HP trigger-and-gate with clock phasing and delay, and Quantus Trajecta 10HP...
Tuning into Arabic music: electronic-vocal duo Rust and Hany Manja (with Bitwig Studio download)
Making instruments work in tune with musicians and singers means making them work with more than 12-tone equal temperament alone....
Here’s Jan Hammer in an 80s power suit rocking his Miami Vice theme on the Fairlight CMI
I swear this isn't a parody. It's just Jan Hammer going full-on Miami Vice to his own theme. There are...
Flexible modular percussion, modulation: cool tricks with Tymp Legio, Peaks Dead Man’s Catch
From beautiful toms to alternate LFO modes, here are two Eurorack modules that shine in multiple applications. Take a video...
OBS Studio captures audio directly on macOS 13, plus OBS 29 boosts encoder support
Streaming and recording music and motion apps just got a whole lot easier on the Mac. OBS Studio 28+ together...
Arturia now lets you choose hardware, software, or both for its synth: MiniFreak V tested
First, there was the hardware keyboard. Then, MiniFreak owners got the MiniFreak V plug-in as an exclusive software companion. Now,...
West Coast chops continue to grow on macOS-iOS modular Audulus
You'll need the latest iOS and macOS to run it, but the next-generation Audulus 4 continues to impress as a...
Teenage Engineering OP-1 field review, not a review: in the field, on an album
Nothing defies trends quite like the Teenage Engineering OP-1. It's small and lean, but priced alongside pro instruments. It's a...
