Welcome
It’s often said that the best way to figure out where we’re going is to look back at where we’ve been. Across 2023 we strove to cover as many of the thousands of new releases across software music production as possible. While some of our highlights stuck to more traditional concepts, or emulated historical legends, others wrote new rules and re-stimulated the way we thought about making sounds, developing creative ideas and more. This issue we’re making the time to both evaluate the year’s key developments across the major product categories and pay particular homage to the releases that we think made the biggest impact – and might just signpost the future of music production.