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I believe SOS still stands out. If you look at its coverage of events like Superbooth, I think you can see that difference.

When our job involves a lot of sitting down, it’s up to us to inject some movement into our lives.

The Superbooth show in Berlin has become one of the highlights of the electronic musician’s calendar, and for good reason.

South African musician and producer Ross Dorkin has diligently cultivated his career as a producer and engineer specialising in spatial audio composition with Dolby Atmos, alongside his work as an artist.

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.