Steinberg today announced the immediate availability of Backbone, Steinberg’s latest virtual instrument with an emphasis on creating unique kicks, snares, cinematic impacts, hi-hats and… Read More Read the full story
Joey Beltram – ‘Energy Flash’
In this Deconstructed, we take a look at Joey Beltram’s smouldering techno classic, ‘Energy Flash’. In 1989, a 19-year-old Joey Beltram created a track that would help usher in a new, darker strain of techno and go on to influence a countless number of producers. Released on Belgian imprint R&S Records in 1990, ‘Energy Flash’…
Rekordbox 6.0.1 Adds Vocal Detection Feature
Pioneer DJ has announced a substantial update to their DJ software, including a new vocal detection feature and integration with Beatport LINK. The latest version of Pioneer’s DJ software rekordbox features a new music analysis algorithm which can detect exactly where vocals are in a track, and display this information on screen. Pioneer DJ announced…
Ibiza To Re-Open To Tourists In July
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez made the announcement over the weekend. The Guardian newspaper has reported that Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced the recommencement of tourism in the country will start at the beginning of July. In his weekly national address, Sanchez said that the reproduction rate for the coronavirus in Spain was now…
Ultimate Patches Roland Boutique JP-08 & SH-01A Patches Evaluación
Entonces, ¿los Ultimate Patches son realmente definitivos? Cualquier compañía que declare que su producto o servicio es “definitivo” ciertamente establece una alta expectativa. Entonces, acorralamos a un par de nuestros revisores para ver qué diseñador de sonido, Scott-John Dougan, tiene que ofrecer… Read the full story
Ultimate Patches Roland Boutique JP-08 & SH-01A Patches Review
“All right,” started our JP-08 evaluator, “now I get it. These patches are the real deal.” Read the full story
Kilohearts Phase Plant
What do you get when you combine sound generators like wavetables, samples, and virtual analogue waveforms with FM, multiple lanes of effects, extreme modulation, and a customizable modular environment? You get Phase Plant, Kilohearts’ supremely flexible synthesizer plugin. With so many excellent soft synths on the market today, it takes more than just a couple…
Traktor Slashes Price Of Kontrol S3
Traktor has slashed the price of the Kontrol S3 controller, which drops $200 to $449 from $649, until the end of July (that’s €399 from #599 for Europe). The product includes the Kontrol S3 hardware controller and Traktor Pro 3 software, but note that the Traktor software can only be activated after registering the hardware…



