How do you know you’re ready to launch a music business?

When you have such a strong passion in life, it’s something that always stays with you. No matter where you go in life, that little thing is always there. And when you’ve always been a huge music lover, you’ll know exactly how this feels. When you’re in love with music, it’s something that drives the…

UVI BeatHawk App Is FREE Until April 30th (iOS)

UVI is offering the BeatHawk beat-making app for iOS as a free download until April 30th, 2020. The company is also running an up to 50% OFF sale on all BeatHawk in-app purchases. BeatHawk is UVI’s flagship mobile music production software for iOS devices. The app is built around a 16-pad sampler and a groovebox-style…

Free Kontakt Player Libraries

This article features all free Kontakt Player libraries in one place. If you’re entirely new to Native Instruments Kontakt and Kontakt Player, read our Kontakt Player Demo Timeout article first. As explained in that article, the majority of third-party Kontakt libraries will only work in demo mode in the free Kontakt Player plugin. However, there are…

Mammoth Audio Releases Free Density Lite Kontakt Library

Mammoth Audio has released Density Lite, a free cinematic sound library for Native Instruments Kontakt (also includes WAV samples). Density Lite is a free Kontakt library for modern media composers. It contains 85 individual SFX samples from the full edition of Mammoth Audio’s premium Density library. The included sound effects were created by processing live…

Dancing: Schrödinger’s Cliche

Harold Heath takes another look at the ‘people-don’t-dance-anymore-they-just-stand-watching-the DJ’ discourse. Late last year, I and thousands of others went to the birthday party of one of the UK’s top club brands in one of the country’s biggest and best venues. The DJ line up was impeccable, the visuals were eye-poppingly good, the sound was excellent….

Waves Release The Content Creator Audio Toolkit Bundle

The Content Audio Toolkit from Waves is out now and includes the Playlist Rider plugin. The music industry’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been to try and keep the party going. Despite the many restrictions in place on all sectors, dance music has displayed a remarkable resilience all things considered. Initiatives such as Beatport’s…