Old is new again

For much of the past decade a lot of hardware

NI finally step out of the box with Maschine+

The past year has seen Native Instruments make headlines on

Will free VST synth Pendulum wreak havoc in your DAW?

Free VST synth plugins are pretty common, but free ones

Make a Statement with Softube’s simple new EDM plugin lead synth

Designed to complement its Monoment Bass plugin, Softube’s new Statement

Algoriddim’s Neural Mix Pro player lets you separate vocal, drum and instrument tracks

Having previously added its Neural Mix tech to their djay

Arturia release MicroFreak Vocoder Edition, and a nice surprise for owners of the original too

Arturia’s MicroFreak was always a “weird and wonderful” synth, and

Transform your Roland 707 drum machine into an 808, 909 or LinnDrum with this ROM expansion

Roland’s sample-based TR-707 and TR-727 drum machines are certainly classics,

Reason Studios’ Friktion is an expressive string synth that “simply sounds real”

For their latest Rack Extension, Reason Studios are stepping into

Erica Synths turns up the pressure with Das Kleine Fusion Eurorack modular synth

Billed as the younger sibling of the Fusion System II

Audified’s VocalMint compressor isn’t as basic as it looks

Although it only has one knob on it - and

Fantastic Damage

This was the album El-P never intended to make. His

Track by track with El-P

“This started off as a remix for a Rawkus [Records]

Tales And Patterns Of The Maroons

London-based brothers Reginald Omas Mamode IV and Jeen Bassa have

Stay

Seven years on from his debut album, German producer Daniel

Holy Origin

Holy Origin is the beautifully dark, intense sophomore album from

Paradise Cinema Paradise Cinema

Paradise Cinema is the new project from British multi-instrumentalist, Jack

FUTURE DRUMS

In the electronic music realm, there are three ways to

Broken beat

Maybe you’ve never heard of the broken beat scene that

Octopus Sounds - Basement Freaks: Spaghetti Western Psychedelia $7.99/mo

Greece’s top funky beat-making outfit dons their ten gallon cowboy

Drumdrops - Horseman in Dub $7.99/mo

Heavyweight business time as Prince Fatty teams up with the

Vital Vocals - Future Soul Acapellas Vol.2 £19.95

Sweet! It’s like you’ve been given the acapella stems for

Odd Smpls - Stuck At Home: Trap Smpls £19.95

The newly-formed Odd Smpls clique kicks off in style with

Vintage strings

There’s something truly special about the sound of a vintage

GEAR GUIDE

An impressive first release from a new brand. Hydrasynth looks

Cut Copy

Hailing from Melbourne, Australia electro-pop veterans Cut Copy were established

CONVOLUTION REVERB

We all know how important it is that the ‘space’

“I kill my darlings… it’s part of getting where you wanna go” School of X

Danish musician and producer Rasmus Littauer has spent much of

Joachim Pastor

While Versailles is famous for being the home of Louis

Generate new musical ideas in Ableton Live

It can be easy to get bored when programming loop-based

Sylvan Esso

When Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn formed electro-pop outfit Sylvan

Hugar

I celandic multi-instrumentalists Bergur Þórisson and Pétur Jónsson have developed

Arturia PolyBrute £2,259

CONTACT WHO: Arturia WEB: arturia.com KEY FEATURES 6-voice digitally-controller analogue

iZotope Stutter Edit 2 $199

KEY FEATURES Rhythmic multi-effect plugin. Formats: AU, AAX, VST2, VST3

ADDAC 106 T-Noiseworks £169

ADDAC have been working on the T-Noiseworks group of Eurorack

Antelope Zen Tour Synergy Core €1995

CONTACT WHO: Antelope Audio WEB: antelopeaudio.com KEY FEATURES I/O: 8-in/14-out

Denon DJ Prime Go £930

CONTACT WHO: Denon DJ WEB: denondj.com KEY FEATURES 2-track standalone

PreSonus Quantum 2626 £599

CONTACT WHO: Presonus WEB: presonus.com KEY FEATURES I/O: Eight mic/line

Serial compression

While the parallel compression technique runs a compressor in parallel

CLIPPERS

The actual clipping operation in Clipped-MAX can vary each time

Rob Papen - Punch 2 €149

Rob Papen entered the plugin game only a few years

Audiotent - Magma

It’s time to crack the surface and reveal the underground