Tutorials
Mixing Techno Drums With Excite Audio’s Lifeline Console
How can you get TR-909 samples sounding punchy and powerful? Console-style processing is an excellent way to add character and thump at the mixing stage.
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Tutorials
Re-amping An Acid Bassline With Excite Audio’s Lifeline Expanse
We use re-amping techniques to add depth and vibe to a 303 bassline entirely in the box with Excite Audio Lifeline Expanse.
News
Splice Acquires Spitfire Audio For A Reported $50 Million
A somewhat surprising acquisition between two companies at different ends of the producer spectrum.…
News
Win A Trip To Abbey Road With Audiotool’s Global Remix Competition
Audiotool, the free online line browser DAW, are running a global remix competition in partnership with the 2024 Esports World…
Gear/Software
ModeAudio Airspace – Sky’s The Limit?
When is a reverb more than a reverb? We patrol ModeAudio’s brand new Airspace to find out more……
Gear/Software
Newfangled Audio Recirculate – More Than A Delay Plugin
Newfangled Audio, created by Eventide effects guru Dan Gillespie, has entered the spatial effects market with Recirculate. Could they have finally cracked the code for the perfect delay workflow?
News
GPU Audio Announce A Free Suite Of Modulation Plugins
GPU Audio has announced the first release in their free beta suite of plugins. The Modulation Bundle, features a Chorus…
News
Plugin Boutique Best Black Friday Deals 2025
Black Friday deals continue to land early – even though the official date isn’t until this Friday, November 28th. Plugin…
Long Reads
Excite and Resonate: A History of Physical Modelling Synthesis
Once a niche form of synthesis, physical modelling is now growing in popularity, offering both highly realistic – and wildly novel – results.
Gear/Software
Caelum Audio Choric: Not Your Old Man’s Chorus Plugin
Chorus effects are indispensable for doubling and adding stereo width but that’s all they can do, right? Caelum Audio’s Choric is here to prove that wrong.
News
Beatport Launches ‘Beatport Studio’
Beatport has announced Beatport Studio, a production membership consolidating various aspects of their growing producer ecosystem.…
News
U-he Announces Zebra 3
u-he has released the long-awaited Zebra 3. We first noticed it was in development way back in November…
Long Reads
GPU Audio Is Powering Plugins With Your Graphics Card. Is It Time To Finally Say Goodbye To Latency?
Constantly maxing out your CPU? GPU Audio is hoping to leverage your graphics card to speed up music production processing.
Gear/Software
UDO Audio Super 6
Does UDO’s Super 6 hybrid polyphonic synthesizer live up to the hype? Bruce Aisher finds out.
Gear/Software
A Tale of Two Expos: Our Report From The London Synth & Pedal Expo 2026
Thanks to a perfect storm of German federal administrative blunders, UK passport renewals, and the extortionately priced logistics of moving…
News
MPC Live III Is Here With 3D Sensing Pads & Step Sequencer
MPC Live III focuses on expression and speed with expressive MPCe™ pads and 8-core processing, Clip Matrix arrangement, step…
Gear/Software
Audio Technica ATH-PRO7X
Audio-Technica’s ATH-PRO7X headphones are the higher-end partner to the ATH-PRO5X. Ronan Macdonald puts them to…
Q&A
Claudio Ricci
“The Earth without art is just, ‘Eh’ “. Claudio Ricci takes on our quick-fire Q&A.…
News
Tetrad Synth Plugin Marries Physical Modelling and Experimental Art
Physical Audio’s latest synth draws on real-world sculpture to offer a distinctive digital sound palette…
News
FL Studio Introduces FL Studio 2024
The latest update to the much-loved DAW, FL Studio 2024 introduces many new features covering FL Studio and FL…
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Ten Of The Best: Audio Interfaces
We pick our top audio interfaces, from small, affordable models aimed at beginners through to feature-laden pro choices.…
Tutorials
Make Your Tracks Bloom – Mura Masa Style
The latest instrument from Excite Audio is made in collaboration with Grammy-winner Mura Masa.…
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
Polyverse Music Releases Filtron For Free
Polyverse Music has introduced Filtron, a free filter plugin. buy singulair online singulair online generic…
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The 10 Best Secret Sauce Plugins Of 2024
Here are our choices for the 10 best secret sauce plugins of 2024, apps that can turn a blah track into a banger – and four of them are free!
Interviews
KSHMR Reverb: “Trying To Close The Gap Between Producers And Plugin Developers”
Attack editor Eric Brünjes sat down with KSHMR to talk about his new reverb plugin ‘KSHMR Reverb’ and his…
News
Announcing The Winner Of The ABL3 303-Day Competition
It’s time to announce the winner of the Attack x Audiorealism 303-day competition. Read on to find out…
Track By Track
“How I Made ‘Where I End'” – Baltra Breaks Down His New Mixtape
Following the release of ‘Ted’ in 2019 and ‘Ambition’ in 2021 Baltra continues to evolve his sound with new mixtape…
Interviews
Urs Heckmann – “What Most People Seek Is Authenticity”
u-he head honcho Urs Heckman talks use through the development of Zebra 3, staying relevant in an era of sample packs and AI, and weathering industry storms for 25 years.
Synth Secrets
80s-Style Tuned Percussion With Zebra 3
Our third 80s-inspired feature in a month… safe to say we’re fully immersed at this point. But when…
Introducing...
Sister Zo – “Give Yourself Fully To What You Love With Zero Expectation Of The Outcome”
Sister Zo has recently released her “Freak Shift” EP on the “3024” label. In support of her release, we asked…
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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…
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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…
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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…