Electronic Dance Music News, DJ Gear & Tech, South Africa
New Audient Evo audio interfaces have landed in South Africa The new Audient Evo audio interfaces are designed to make your life easier and let you focus on being creative. Nowadays it seems like almost every brand has a competitive audio interface on the market, so most of the competition seems to be on the […]
Devil Fish slams Behringer for their proposed modified 303 clone Behringer teased a new “murdered out” version of their recently released TD-3 that has them in some hot water. For a while now Behringer have been praised by many synthesizer enthusiasts for their affordable remakes of hard to find and out of production synths and […]
Kilohearts Phase Plant 1.8 update introduces awesome new features Kilohearts Phase Plant knocks it out of the park again with the latest round of updates, introducing multiband effects processing. Apart from the major introduction, the addition of their multiband effects host, Multipass, into Kilohearts Phase Plant, the latest round of updates introduce some other very […]
Techniques for creating Hitech Psytrance leads and effects Today we’re delving into the darker side of Psytrance, let’s look at a couple of techniques for creating Hitech leads. The main idea here is to create a patch with a variety of macro controls and random generators and then record a long passage of the synth […]
Tonstrum FRQ Shift – a unique new spectral shifting effect plugin Tonstrum FRQ Shift is an ultra-clean dual-frequency shifting engine with internal effects and a variety of modulation capabilities. Tonstrum FRQ Shift is an inspiring new plugin for music creation, sound design and post-production, it’s capable of transforming any sound source in a variety of […]
Classic Moog Vocoder is back, 40 years after its original release Moog reintroduces their classic Moog Vocoder around 40 years after its original conception. The Classic Moog Vocoder is back and it has many of the same features that inspired users such as Wendy Carlos, Giorgio Moroder and John Carpenter all the way back when […]
Some inside info on the elusive Ampethron Portable synthesizer Introducing Ampethron Portable – a compact and standalone all-in-one digital synth designed for live performance. Essentially, Ampethron Portable is a single piece of hardware with an ever-evolving synthesizer inside, it comes with a standard synth engine – however, new algorithms can be downloaded, copied to a […]
How to create Astrix-Style Rhythmic Squelch sounds A very prominent aspect in Astrix sound is the way he uses rhythmic squelch sounds, let’s look into that. We have looked into various ways of creating a basic squelch sound if you’re familiar with Psytrance – I’m sure you know which sound I’m talking about. The basics […]
Abletunes RVRB is a versatile new reverb plugin Introducing Abletunes RVRB, a reverb effects which features 12 built-in algorithms and various other exciting features. The all-new Abletunes RVRB claims to be the “modern reverb for modern producers” and it certainly prides itself on some more interesting built-in features. It comes packed with 12 built-in reverb […]
MIDI 2.0 is now the official industry standard MIDI was originally an example of competitors working together, and the new MIDI 2.0 protocol echoes that sentiment. In an era where a lot of companies are designing controllers specifically for their own software products, it’s refreshing to see a group of companies work together to usher […]
