Google’s “Tone Transfer” AI Transforms Sounds Into Instruments

Tone Transfer is a free web app that uses Google’s machine learning AI to convert the timbre of any audio file into four different instruments. It’s pretty easy to get lost in all the alarmist clickbaity titles calling for the end of whatever profession you’re currently doing right now. Do you work at a cream…

Filter Fills

In this Tutorial, we program a chord stab and look at how to use advanced filter modulation to create dynamic effects in a breakdown. It would not be a long shot to say that filters are probably the most commonly modulated effects in dance music. The cutoff opening before the drop, driven resonance resulting in…

Sound System Revolution

Marcus K. Dowling takes a look at the influence of West Indian sound system culture on the birth of the UK acid house scene and the development of UK dance music. As the story goes, in the summer of 1987, a quartet of white, funk-adoring Uk DJs celebrated Paul Oakenfold’s birthday on the Spanish isle…

Novation Comes To Daddy With The Limited Edition AFX Station

Novation’s 2013 Bass Station 2 gets remixed by Richard D James with new graphics and AFX Mode pre-loaded. Last year, UK company Novation updated the firmware on its 2013 Bass Station 2 to include AFX Mode. Co-developed with Richard D James, the new mode allowed users to apply a discrete set of synthesis parameters to…