Tutorials
Panning Effects for Breakdowns With Sound Particles’ Energy Panner
In this tutorial we test out Sound Particles’ dynamic panning plug-ins, which have recently developed a reputation in Hollywood for creating realistic soundscapes.
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Long Reads
Does Hardware Really Sound Better?
Which sounds better, hardware or software? We made the same song using hardware and software to help you decide for yourself.
News
Moog Music Adds a New Chapter to the Moog Sound Studio Experience
Moog Music is making its full family of 60HP semi-modular analog synthesizers more accessible with Moog Sound Studio: Mother…
News
Oblivion Sound Lab Release Retrograde: 120 Cosmic Patches for Repro-5
Oblivion Sound Lab has announced the release of Retrograde: 120 Cosmic Patches for u-he’s Repro-5.…
Tutorials
Frequency Sidechaining With Oeksound soothe2
article, we apply the lesser discussed Sidechain feature of Soothe 2 to a breakbeat mix. We’ll use it to make the vocals and kick pop out over the harmonic elements and subby low end. This might just be the sidechaining secret weapon we’ve been waiting for!
Tutorials
How to Improve The Sound Of Your Home Studio
It’s important to learn how to sound treat a home studio. In this piece, we’re going to look…
News
Aphex Twin and ODDsound have released a plugin that “redefines musical tuning”
Designed to be at the centre of a microtonal studio setup, this collaboration between ODDsounds, a UK startup, and Aphex Twin should fire your music into a microtuning odyssey.
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Soundcloud Launches Instant Mastering Feature
Soundcloud launches Dolby-powered automated mastering for $4.99/track, claims new service can identify details, unique sections and musical transitions.
Interviews
Krust: “Great artists, painters, musicians, designers, dancers: they’ve transcended the genre”
This month’s feature interview is with Krust, currently riding high with the remix version of last year’s superb…
Long Reads
How Techno Provided The Soundtrack of Change in Berlin
When the Berlin Wall fell over 30 years ago, young people from East and West came together to celebrate their…
News
Pandemic Rave Suits Now Being Designed
The ‘Micrashell’ is a virus-shielded PPE suit to satisfy the needs of nightlife, live events and entertainment industries…
Beat Dissected
Found Sound 2-Step
In the latest Beat Dissected we create a swinging 2-step beat which uses a blend of vintage drum machine…
Hardware Focus
Hardware Wars: The Gear Behind The Sounds Of Star Wars
For this May the Fourth, we put the spotlight on the synthesizers and other gear that played a part in the sounds of Star Wars.
Long Reads
Carl Craig And The Quality Of Sound
We talk with Carl Craig about the sound of DAWs, summing in the box with Harrison Mixbus, and making sure your music has character.
Video Tutorials
How to design a custom kick drum in Ableton
Our sound design expert demonstrates how to create a kick drum from scratch using Ableton Operator…
News
Lunacy Announces “Effects Playground BEAM” With Intro Sale
BEAM is a new interactive effects plugin with a highly visual GUI from Lunacy, the makers of the award winning…
Interviews
Tatsuya Takahashi: “I just tried to design products to be the best I can imagine them”
Synth designer Tatsuya Takahashi spoke to us ahead of his talk at the music conference, Most Wanted.
Beat Dissected
Pearson Sound
We create a beat inspired by the hypnotic rhythms and textures of Hessle Audio’s Pearson Sound.…
News
AlphaTheta Announces euphonia A Professional 4-channel Rotary Mixer
The first mixer to bear the AlphaTheta name and the company’s first-ever rotary unit.…
News
Baby Audio Unveil Atoms A Next-Gen Physical Modeling Synth
Atoms was on display prerelease at NAMM last month and is now available for purchase.…
Long Reads
Exploring a World of Sound with Erica Synths’ Girts Ozolinš
The Erica Synths founder talks about his native Riga, Latvia as a hub for both tech and electronic music instrument…
Tutorials
Acoustics 101: Improve the sound of your studio (and mixes) Part 2.
A few simple tweaks to your studio can make mixing easier and your productions stronger. In part 2 of our…
News
MNTRA, GPU Audio & Outer Echo Set To Drop ‘Living Sky’
Living Sky is a spatial reverb plugin driven to reimagine three-dimensional spatial audio production.…
News
Minimal Audio Release Swarm Reverb
Minimal Audio has released a new reverb plugin, Swarm Reverb.…
Tutorials
Acoustics 101: Improve the sound of your studio (and mixes)
A few simple tweaks to your studio can make mixing easier and your productions stronger. In part one of a…
Interviews
Analogue Plus Digital: Designing the Korg Prologue
Korg Prologue designers Etienne Noreau-Hebert and Yoshihito Yamada discuss the company’s new flagship synth and the pressure of…
News
From Nov 14th Save Up To 80% Off Polyverse
Has it been a year already? The Black Friday bonanza continues to gain steam with Polyverse offering up to 80…
News
FabFilter Pro-R 2 Is Here
One of the more popular reverbs around, the Pro-R has had an update to the Pro-R 2.…
Long Reads
Neuron Pro Audio: Flavours of Sound
Attack editor Greg Scarth goes behind the scenes at one of the UK’s leading pro audio companies to learn…
Tutorials
The Secrets of Dance Music Production: Lo-Fi Sound
This tutorial is a short excerpt from our new book, The Secrets of Dance Music Production, which is available to…
News
Sonification Tools Are Here: What Are They, And Why Should You Care?
Until now, sonification remained an esoteric technique available only to artists with a coding background. But, with the release of Sonification Tools, Berlin’s Manifest Audio offer an accessible solution to harness real-world data for music composition directly within Ableton Live.
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Marketing & Advertising With Attack Magazine
If you’re reading this, you might consider working with Attack Magazine. Read on to find out how we can…
Quizzes
Crossword #10 April 22
Aprils’ crossword is Ukrainian themed. How much do you know about Ukrainian music? Time to find out.…
Quizzes
How High is Your Roland IQ?
You have 15 mins to complete 14 practical tests for a chance to win £2,000 worth of Roland gear…
The Best...
Ten Of The Best: Headphones For Music Production
We offer a selection of our recommended headphones for studio use, picking out our top choices at a range of…
Long Reads
What Makes A Great DJ?
What makes a great DJ? Kristan Caryl asked a group of top selectors including Dave Clarke, Mr G, Mosca and…
The Best...
Ten Of The Best: New Analogue Mono Synths
2014 was an incredible year for analogue synths and 2015 looks set to deliver even more. We run through some…