October 13, 2026
Nineteen dollars for a Minimoog. That is the current state of the budget analog modeling market, and it has quietly made the sub-$200 tier the most interesting place…
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October 13, 2026
Spring sales are where plugin collections get built and where they get bloated with stuff you’ll open twice. The discounts themselves aren’t the problem. The problem is that…
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October 12, 2026
Two drum machines, two very different ideas about what “live” means. The Roland TR-8S and the Arturia DrumBrute Impact both want to be the box you actually play…
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October 12, 2026
Every techno producer hits the same wall around the third hour of a session: the kick slams, the bassline is solid on its own, and together they turn…
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October 11, 2026
Pro-Q 3 has been sitting on my master bus and every channel insert since 2018. So when FabFilter announced Pro-Q 4, my first instinct wasn’t excitement. It was…
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October 11, 2026
Most TR-8S tutorials assume you already live inside a DAW. Record the eight outs, chop them Rolands are notorious for patches that sound great solo and mush together…
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October 10, 2026
Arturia’s Pigments has been floating around my plugin folder since version 2, and every major update gets the same reaction from me: the engine didn’t change much, but…
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October 10, 2026
Most saturation advice for drums is written by people who have never A/B’d the same kick through the same chain at three different gain stages. So you get…
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October 2, 2026
Most of my kicks start life as three samples stacked on top of each other. A sub, a body, a top. That’s it. No magic plugin chain, no…
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September 25, 2026
Six hundred dollars doesn’t buy you a vintage 808. It buys you a machine that gets you 80 percent of the way there, plus a warranty. I’ve cycled…
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