
A Different Drum
Is it time to burn a few musical bridges, experiment with a more Eno-esque approach, and turn off the click track?
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Is it time to burn a few musical bridges, experiment with a more Eno-esque approach, and turn off the click track?

We look at the different ways in which you can animate parameters in Ableton Live.

Reinvented by a little-known Norwegian production team, a song about not being famous any more made Mike Posner more famous than ever...

Easily play and write in any key with Logic Pro’s MIDI tools.

The MicroGranny 2 is a miniature granular sampler, and you won’t have to sell any of your elderly relations to get one.

Drips is a complete analogue drum voice that can be tweaked to produce kicks, snares, hi-hats and so on as well as Kraftwerk-style zaps and thwaps.

This compact module will serve as four linear VCAs or as a four-input mixer — for audio or control signals.

Rebel Technology’s Phoreo [Rendering its name in Greek will break the SOS publishing software — Ed] is a clock,...

The Silent Majority: sometimes the best way to improve a mix is to take a break from it.


Soon, for the first time in 35 years, you will be a able to walk into a shop and buy a brand-new Minimoog. But will it be as good as the original? Find out in our exclusive review.

Persistence is a virtue every composer needs, but you can take it too far.

As recording live shows gets cheaper and easier, the line between live-sound engineer and producer blurs.

Designed by PandaMIDI in Hungary and inspired by the long-discontinued Akai Deep Impact, this unit adds a useful range of extra features.

This inexpensive and conceptually simple plug-in, compatible with all iZotope’s usual Mac/PC formats, applies the principles of the Shepard Tone to filtering.

Designed to produce a wide range of mono or stereo delay-based effects, StompDelay's inbuilt multi-waveform modulation allows it to double as a flanger, chorus, tape echo or extreme effects generator.

The pop filter is one of those humble yet essential devices that you normally don’t pay too much attention to — which seems strange, really, when you consider that it’s the first thing in your vocal recording chain.

We clear up some of the issues surrounding cloud collaboration in Pro Tools 12.5.

PJ Harvey’s long-term co-producer John Parish is uncompromising in his willingness to experiment — even with the world watching!

Even at high sample rates, standard PCM audio ‘smears’ important timing information. A new digital format, MQA, promises vastly improved time-domain accuracy — without the huge file sizes.