Break open your piggy banks as a new auction selling Prince’s Yamaha DX7, which he played on ‘Purple Medley’ and used on Purple Rain the album, is expected to raise $25,000. Prince’s DX7 is currently owned by Shane T Keller, a former employee of Paisley Park Studios who worked with Prince between 1991 and 1996….
Leading Chicago producer Gene Farris (Relief, Toolroom, Defected, Soma) has just dropped his superb ‘Space Girl’ track on Dirtybird. We asked him to tell us a little about his interests outside of music in this months Show & Tell. Star Wars It’s no secret I’m a massive Star Wars Fan, and have been collecting figures,…
ZamplerSounds has released The Trickster, a free expansion library for Akai MPC. They are also offering 70 premium Zampler soundbanks as fully-fledged MPC expansions. Also, BPB readers can get 20% OFF their ZamplerSounds order with the discount code BPBZAMPLER until the end of July. The Trickster is a sound library designed for dubstep, trap, and…
Arturia finally adds the Oberheim OB-Xa to its list of emulations. But is it good enough to stand out in a very crowded polysynth plugin field? In 1980, American synthesizer manufacturer Oberheim unleashed the OB-Xa, a very lush (and very expensive) polyphonic synthesizer that would come to define the sound of the 1980s. If the…
KV331 Audio has announced their 3rd expansion bank for SynthMaster One: NatLife Retrowave Sounds Volume 1. Created by sound designer NatLife Sounds, this bank features 60 presets… Read More Read the full story
Free Cthulhu Chords Here you can download our free Cthulhu presets Here you can download our Free Cthulhu Chords. We made sure each preset contains great chord progressions that will inspire you to create new beats. Each preset contains at least 14 chords that you can create your own progressions with. We designed these presets…
The Nour cash and carry in South London claim they’re threatened with eviction by the property development company of DJ and landlord, Taylor McWilliams. A Change.org campaign has been launched by a Brixton business against DJ Taylor HK of the Housekeeping DJ collective and his company’s plans to develop Brixton market. McWilliams is the founder and…
Nikolozi has updated Mela to version 1.7 for iOS. Changes Oscillators: Sub-oscillator and Noise oscillator have been renamed to “Oscillator 3” and “Oscillator… Read More Read the full story