Focal’s Bathys headphones are a cut above Apple’s top wireless HiFi noice-cancelling cans
French company Focal's Bathys wireless headphones with noise cancellation features are priced to challenge Apple for the HiFi mobile market.
Plunging into the nerdy world of the Audulus synthesizer environment
Audulus is a very flexible synthesizer programming environment. It’s a toolbox for creating your own synthesizers, sound effects, filters - anything that has to do with creation or manipulation of sound
LALAL.AI is AI-aided sampling that actually works (until the RIAA takes it down)
AI-based sampling apps are proliferating but the music industry is sharpening their knives.
Other Desert Cities is the wildest reverb machine on Earth
Even with the most basic, out-of-the-box settings, I’ve never heard anything as odd and freaky from a reverb plugin as what I made from passing simple chords through the reverbic chaos of Other Desert Cities.
Turntables are basically expensive paperweights now
Since Technics and Pioneer are pricing turntables like they're collectors items, you might as well get the emperor's clothes of record decks - the one that's invisible to the eye and makes incredible promises about its sound
Roland wins $4.6 million in tortuous patent lawsuit
The judgment against the parent company of Alesis covers electronic drum technology and might represent a renewed defense of its technology against product clones.
Spotify cancels the “dumbest product in the world”
Dropped after just 5 months, Car Thing was another multi-million dollar swindle Spotify chased instead of paying musicians fairly
Acid Redux: Donner debuts with a 303 clone
Chinese brand Donner's first synth is an inexpensive remake of the classic Roland TB-303. Is it worth it?
Making interstellar ambient loops with SpaceFields
5 Mag reviews SpaceFields, a fascinating and useful app for making pulsating, rhythmic sound structures in deep reverb space.
Moog updates the Etherwave Theremin for the 21st Century
The Theremin - the first mass-produced electronic instrument - gets a modern make-over.
Getting your shit together with sample management tool Cosmos from Waves
Free tool from Waves for managing billions & billions of samples
Your AirPods Are Tiny Bombs
Your AirPods will last longer on this planet than your bones, if they doesn't explode first.
Sonicly promises a fair deal for crowdfunding projects
After PledgeMusic's demise, a new platform emerges, designed specifically for musicians. Will it be any different than the last?
Spotify releases the dumbest product of the year
Did you want better royalties? How about a remote control for your phone instead? Meet "Car Thing," Spotify's latest proof of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
Would you give 5% of your DJ fee to producers?
Aslice aims to "equalize" the monetary disparity between music producers and the DJs that play their music.
Erica Synths donates income to Ukraine humanitarian aid
The benefit involving several selected instruments from Erica Synths is "on-going until all stock is sold out."
Loumavox: the Extraordinary History of a Fake Synthesizer
A documentary made by French schoolchildren cast a bright light on a "lost" synthesizer and its creator - and on how our thirst for "secret histories" can lead us astray.
Moog launches GIANTS video series on pioneering electronic music
GIANTS is a new documentary series exploring the early days of electronic music and the untold stories of its pioneers.
My Life in Analog Hell
It started with a Roland Juno-106. Thousands of dollars later, I had all this beautiful analog gear and couldn't write a note on it. A year in analog hell by Ed Martinez.
Moog launches Animoog Z free for iOS and macOS
Animoog Z, the new iteration of Moog's first professional synth launched today and is a free download for iOS and macOS.
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Brutal layoffs at Bandcamp as new owner slashes 50% of staff
A week after promising to preserve many of the site's most beloved features, Bandcamp's new owner has gutted the company's staff. The writing team at Bandcamp Daily is reportedly down to just 3 people.
