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One of my favourite musical sounds ever is the unscripted, unplanned, impossible‑to‑replicate sound of an orchestra setting up for a session.

If music be the food of love, shouldn’t we eat better while we’re making it?

The MIDI protocol celebrates its 40th birthday this year, with SOS as official media partners for this year's MIDI Innovation Awards.

Many of us dream of setting up a recording studio. But where do you start — and what’s it really like to run one as a commercial business today?

There’s a running gag in modular circles about how someone has just completed their system. But in a few days, maybe a week, other modules will start popping up out of drawers and things will change.

Born and raised in Colombia, engineer and producer Maria Elisa Ayerbe speaks to SOS about her career and influences.

The economics of hardware goods are familiar, but how do manufacturers factor prices for plug-ins?

As an immature, financially irresponsible man‑child with lingering delusions of rockstardom, I have a modest collection of guitars...

An MPG poll has found that studios are paying between 250 and 400 percent more for their electricity now than they were in 2021. This has been a heavy blow, and it’s about to get a lot worse.

Mikado Koko is an off‑the‑wall thinker, with music to match...

Not all hardware loopers are created equal. This is quickly discovered when you dive deeper into creating sonic architectures...

Musician, sound designer, educator and all‑round electronic sound sorceress, Lisa Bella Donna has built a reputation for herself as one of the most eminent synthesists anywhere.

What impact will machine learning and AI have on the arts?

Deep in rural Pembrokeshire, South West Wales, engineer and producer Owain Fleetwood Jenkins has built a paradisal residential studio in an abandoned chapel...

Multitrack recording at home, a decade before the Portastudio...

Over time, accurate observations about specific things have a tendency to dissolve into dubious generalisations...

Macau‑born Jessica Wong began her production career at Boston’s prestigious Berklee School Of Music before relocating to Atlanta, where she can often be found working in the Madison Records studio in nearby Chamblee, Georgia.

While ambient music can be stereotyped as meditative or calming, it bridges the gaps between noise and silence, helping us find solace.

When Stormzy agreed to be interviewed for this month’s cover feature, he set one condition. We would, he insisted, be...

Combining deft production and fluent beat‑making with no‑holds‑barred spoken word and singing, Bristol’s Billy Nomates, aka Tor Maries, has enjoyed a fast ascent to cult success.

I bought my first CD player in 1984. I had been lusting for one since I first saw/heard the new format three years earlier,...