Audio Vitamins Stochas Step Sequencer Is Now Open-Source

Audio Vitamins have released the source code for Stochas, a cross-platform polyrhythmic step sequencer in VST and AU plugin formats. Something that often gets overlooked when collecting plugins is the sequencer. Most DAWs offer one, but they tend to be rudimentary at best or get in the way of inspiration at worst unless you’re Ableton…

Songs in Isolation: An Interview with Joe Satriani

COVID-19 has been hard on all musicians, but particularly musicians like Joe Satriani, who live for the joy and spontaneity of being on a stage. Early in the year he had to postpone his… Read More Read the full story

ROM Expansion Enhances Roland TR-707 With Samples From The TR-808, LinnDrum And More

HKA Design’s update can add eight sound banks of iconic drum machine sounds to Roland’s TR-707 and TR-727 drum machines. UK-based design engineer Harry Axten (a.k.a. HKA Design) has been selling ROM-style expansions for classic drum machines since releasing his Roland TR-505 expansion in 2016. His other products include a Roland TR-626 expansion, a modified…

Mr Beatnick

Genre-straddling UK producer Mr Beatnick released his second album, ‘Honeycomb’ in June this year. It’s an enticing journey, taking in influences from UK funky, broken beat, hip hop, techno and more. We asked him to talk us through it, Track By Track. ‘Honeycomb’ is my second album, released on my own label, Mythstery; my first, ‘The…

Quiet Art releases Defaulter v2 with LKFS option

Quiet Art has updated Defaulter, the clip gain normaliser plugin, to version 2.0 with K-weighted measuring capability. Now it can normalise clips to LKFS targets amongst other improvements…. Read More Read the full story