Japan's CyberStep has announced its expansion into the music business, with the development of the KDJ-ONE portable digital audio workstation (DAW). The device brings a synthesizer, sequencer, and ...

With Depeche Mode’s 15th studio album, Memento Mori, out now, we’ve decided to look back at the band’s synth history and have a go at recreating some Mode-like beats, riffs and sequences. We’ll not ...

All of this can go a long way to replacing the functionality of mixer channels and insert effects in a DAW. Pros: Hardware sequencers are a great way to get hands-on creatively and perform tracks, ...

Since it first caught the world's attention at NAMM '09, Native Instruments' Maschine has made quite a stir in the world of electronic music production and performance. A modern re-imagining of Akai's ...

As any Linux chat room or forum will tell you, the most powerful tool to any Linux user is a terminal emulator. Just about every program under the sun has a command line alternative, be it CAD, note ...

The advent of cheap, powerful personal computers utterly revolutionised music-making. Even as electronic music gear became more affordable on the secondhand market throughout the 1980s, the act of ...