Introducing the sub-$1000 Moog Grandmother

Introducing the Moog Grandmother: the sub-$1000 synth that took us all by surprise. It’s small, it’s colourful and it came out of nowhere. North Carolina analogue synth originators Moog have announced the immediate release of a new keyboard, the Grandmother (the name presumably being a nod to their Mother-32 desktop module). Available immediately, it’s a semi-modular, analogue,…

Mixes Of The Week: 14/5/18

This week’s top mixes include AG Cook’s Hollywood Ambient Mix, Stanislav Tolkachev’s Moody Meditations and Palm Trax’s Joyful Joints. AG Cook’s ‘Hollywood Ambient’ Mix. PC Music producer AG Cook contributes a mix for Sigur Rós’s ongoing Liminal series, curating “choreographers, visual artists and new technologies – with solo work and remixes, film score and generative music”. Broadcast via NTS, he…

How To Get Your Tracks Noticed On SoundCloud – What SoundCloud Says

SoundCloud has been busy letting producers know how to ensure their tracks reach the widest audience possible on the platform. Here are some key takeaways: If you post on SoundCloud, the company advises, you should keep your artist and title descriptions clean and in the right format When posting images, you should ensure they’re hi-res…

Krotos Audio Giveaway Winner Announced

Congratulations to Aldo Gorga from Italy who won the recent Krotos Audio giveaway here at KVR. Aldo wins a software bundle valued at $1600 that includes Krotos Audio’s Dehumaniser, the unique [Read More] Read the full story

Trippy Leads & Analogue Pads

Synth Secrets is a series of programming tutorials in which we show how to make a range of classic and new synth sounds using plugins such as Massive, Sylenth and Diva. In this instalment of Synth Secrets we’ll be taking a look at some sound design in Ableton, creating both a trippy techno lead and…

“Traktor Users Will Be Able To Enjoy A Laptop-Free Traktor Experience” – Denon DJ

No, this isn’t coming from Native Instruments (sadly, of course – Traktor users would be rightfully shocked and amazed were this the announcement of a laptop-free Traktor controller). Rather, it’s from Denon DJ, and was the carefully worded line the company gave us when we asked directly about the teased forthcoming integration between Traktor and…