Samson’s Meteor Mic Fulfills All Your (Podcasting) Needs
Looking for a cheap but quality podcasting mic? Samson's Meteor Mic will fit your needs and your budget.
The Sound of the Late ’80s, Roland’s Classic D-50 Gets the Boutique Treatment
Roland releases the Roland D-05, the boutique edition of the famed Roland D-50 synthesizer.
Here We Go: Rekordbox Launches Streaming Integration
DJs can now stream live from Beatport and SoundCloud's catalogs for a price using the latest update to Pioneer's rekordbox software.
Getting your shit together with sample management tool Cosmos from Waves
Free tool from Waves for managing billions & billions of samples
Pioneer Patches Six Controllers and Mixers for OS X El Capitan
Upgrade with confidence, or at least only minor terror.
You can cross off one list of apps from the OS X incompatibility list.
Pioneer has unveiled a series of patches on Thursday which fix incompatibility between...
Behringer is Building a Free DAW for the Masses
Elbowing into a crowded field, Behringer has announced the hiring of a new team for development of a free music DAW called Music Tribe.
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?
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.
Roland demos Zenology FX plugin for Mac & Windows (Video)
Roland is rolling out Zenology FX, a plugin for macOS and Windows with "nearly 50 years of legendary Roland sounds, including over 90 genre-defining effects."
Atomic Age Drum Machines: the Ghost Orchestras of Harry Chamberlin
Musicians' unions once banned these machines for fear they would put their members out of work. The incredible story of the insulation installer who developed the world's first commercial drum machine.
The Man Who Made His Computer Sing: Max Mathews & the Invention of Digital...
The mp3, ProTools, Ableton and digital music itself can be traced to a crazy engineer who taught his computer to sing and helped Stanley Kubrick scare the crap out of the world.
Native Instruments Gets Dirty with the New Crush Pack
Three new effects from Native Instruments capture a certain aesthetic of lo-fi, distorted and glitched-out sound which is in fashion at the moment.
808: The History of an Error
The Roland TR-808: How a fledgeling Japanese electronics company changed the sound of electronic music forever.
Moog Brings Back to Life the Pioneering Synthesizer IIIc
Moog, the company, is steeped in music history - largely because they invented much of it. And keep bringing it back to life, like the Synthesizer IIIc.
Sorry SoundCloud: It’s Not Us. It’s You.
Updated January 19, 2017: We've written several in-depth studies of the various Soundcloud alternatives and are updating this piece with links to the new stories on a wide array of alternatives to SoundCloud as...
Space Oddity: the weird history of the Soviet ANS synthesizer
The sound of Tarkovsky's Solaris, The Mirror and Stalker was generated by a strange machine that created sounds with drawings.
Moog Celebrates (Grand) Mother’s Day
The mad geniuses at Moog have brought to the world the next step in retro semi-modular synths: Grandmother.
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
Get (Almost) Famous with Roland’s #808Day Showcase
Roland is promoting their Roland Cloud software with their first ever 808 Beat Maker's Showcase in August 2018.
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.
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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.
