Rob Papen's Explorer 5 is a bundle of great sounding, unique synthesizers and effects now including Master Magic, RAW Kick and Go2. Noah Pred unwrapped it, and here's what he discovered.
Will Pro Tools' own bundled plugs serve your mastering needs, or should you look further afield? Joe Albano is here to explain your options and which way you might want to go.
Covering a variety of styles from melodic passages and ethnic phrases to unique double-strings, trills and sul ponticelli, this versatile string instrument is currently available at a discount.
Being Christmas means it's time for some choice freebies coming our way. Native Instruments have a nice kick plugin and bass plugin, TRK-01 PLAY, which are free until January 7th 2019.
We all know the importance of having a good mic selection, but what about all the mic accessories that can make or break a session? Joe Albano hails the unsung heroes of the studio cupboard.
A major upgrade to the free online DAW and music making system brings huge performance gains, as well as new features and capabilities. Here's all the details.
This massively redesigned and upgraded miniature hardware synth certainly packs a punch, and you can get your early bird special order in now. Here's the lowdown.
Native's new A Series of Komplete Kontrol keyboards have many of the features of the S series, but at a price that may surprise you. Hollin Jones took the smallest sibling, the A25, for a spin.
Although digital recording is now commonplace, there’s still a vocal minority of musicians sticking with analog. But which is better? Here are 3 ways digital is superior, and 2 it's not.
The big DAW release of FL Studio 20, now for PC and Mac, just got a shot in the arm with requested features from the past 5 years in FL Studio 20.1. Here's what's new.
They call it a polychrome software synthesizer. Arturia's latest soft synth, Pigments, is as multi-faceted sonically as its name suggests. It can sound like most synths out there but is unique too.
Announced back in October 2018, this hardware controller with touch-sensitive motorized faders for under $499, the new 2nd-generation Icon Pro Audio QCon Pro G2 is now shipping!
Logic has tools to convert audio parts to MIDI data - a process that can be incredibly useful, if you know how to use it. Joe Albano explains exactly how it works.
This boutique library contains 9 analog and pcm synth gear such as Dave Smith OB6, Moog Minitaur & Sub37, Novation X-Station, Nord Lead 2x, Oberheim Matrix 6 & 1000, Roland Super JV & Yamaha DX7.
This new course on Presonus Studio One 4 covers everything you need to know about recording, importing and editing audio in this powerful music production environment.
Synapse is a crossfading switch with a signal path that can be rearranged on the fly, capable of turning static waveforms into evolving soundscapes. Scott Riesterer took it for a spin.
