
Inside Track: Zach Crowell
Although he grew up aspiring to be a hip‑hop producer, Zach Crowell has made it big by leaning into his Nashville roots.
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Although he grew up aspiring to be a hip‑hop producer, Zach Crowell has made it big by leaning into his Nashville roots.

Drum Workshop bring their considerable experience of drum hardware to the virtual world.

Metal Legacy is a free expansion for DW Soundworks that has been designed for those in search of hard-hitting metal, rock and punk drum sounds.

Cubase 14 introduces a wide selection of new features while refining old ones.

Simply named the Synth, Polyend's first standalone synthesizer packs in eight sound engines that offer a vast array of sounds ranging from classic to contemporary.

Widely credited with not just inventing techno but also coining the name, Juan Atkins tells the story of his genre-defining record, ‘No UFOs’.

Designed to recreate the ‘vintage digital’ sound of the Roland SDE‑3000 rack unit, the Boss SDE‑3 hosts dual delays wiith a range of controls.

For musicians and producers that struggle to finish tracks, Eddie Bazil explains the benefits of creating musical snippets and gives us some examples as to how we can tap into different moods, and use sound design techniques to create something unique.

We revisit some old tape masters with the help of Logic’s new Stem Splitter.

Pedals are not just for guitars. Here Paul White connects his extensive pedal collection to a modular synth system, effectively using the pedals as additional modules and suggesting some creative ways of setting them up.

There is good reason why so many creative types opt to shut themselves away in out‑of‑town studios or workspaces. It has everything to do with the way that individual creativity works, and removing distraction...

The latest addition to STL Tones' Tonality range contains a selection of amps, cabinets effects from the personal collection of Limp Bizkit's Wes Borland.

The Ableton Move puts a carefully chosen slice of Live into a beautifully portable box.

This new addition to the Moog semi‑modular 60HP range is a little hard to pin down, so what exactly is the Spectravox?

Clavia have made their best‑in‑class stage piano even better!

Veteran Eurorackers Tiptop Audio take on the age‑old problem of polyphonic modular synthesis...

Over 60 manufacturers are already confirmed to be exhibiting at this year's show with more still to be announced, and there will be a series of free seminars and product demo workshops running throughout the day.

Respected British record producer and engineer David Lord chooses XTC’s ‘All You Pretty Girls’ as a favourite sound from the many he’s recorded.

A signal gate is really just a fancy on/off swich — and an inspiring creative tool for modifying existing sequences and creating new ones.

SynthFest UK, the largest synthesizer event of its kind in the UK returns to the Octagon, Sheffield on Saturday 5 October. Join SOS and get hands-on with all the latest synths and modular setups, and check out the free seminars and product demos running throughout the day.