Win a Recording Session With a Grammy Winning Engineer

Want to record with a Grammy winning engineer in London? Sure you do! Enter to win this amazing prize, worth a mouth watering £12,000, and you too could be on your way to Metropolis Studios in the New Year. How to enter? Simply enter your email into a random prize draw on the competition page…

Generating Chords and Melodies with Random MIDI

In this sequel to our Passing Notes article about auto-generated parts, we use Live’s Random MIDI device to generate a long chord progression and two melodic leads.  Sometimes when sitting in front of the keyboard trying to find a new chord progression or melody one can find themselves struggling to break out of old habits….

2020: Our Best-Read Technique Articles Of The Year

We look back at the most popular Attack tutorials and how-tos of the year. It’s been a busy 2020 here at Attack headquarters. We’ve put out quite a bit of content this year. So much so, in fact, that you may have missed some of our best. In the midst of highlighting the best of…

Fabio Boxikus from Gegen

For December’s feature interview we spoke with Fabio Boxikus, promoter of Berlin’s infamous Gegen, a queer sex positive techno event based around inclusivity, who in 2020 found themselves launching a vinyl techno label in the middle of a global pandemic. We delved into the Gegen philosophy, plague raves, the recognition of techno as culturally significant…

Werkstatt-01 And CV Expander

Is it really possible to get the coveted Moog sound for around £200? Darren Selement investigates the Werkstatt-01 and finds out. The Werkstatt-01 with CV Expander is a semi-build-it-yourself kit for an analogue Moog monophonic semi-modular synthesizer. Is it a toy? Is it DIY? What is a CV Expander and why include it? Those are…