Electronic Dance Music News, DJ Gear & Tech, South Africa
Mixroom studios & Ryan Murgatroyd show the workflow on the Akai MPC Live South African electronic music icon, Ryan Murgatroyd, gives us an in-depth tutorial on using the Akai MPC Live. Ryan Murgatroyd has built a name for himself as one of the leading forces in the local dance music scene, his style is funky, […]
Soundation to become the world’s premiere cloud-based DAW? Soundation is set to expand their unique browser-based casual music making platform, after huge fundraising success to the sum of $500,000. The year 2009 saw the initial release of Sweden-based online music platform, Soundation, which quickly gained a large user-based, 75,000 active monthly users on average. The […]
FL Studio 20 announced with native Mac OSX support and more With a host of exciting new features, FL Studio 20 is set to gain even more popularity than ever before. I know, you’re probably thinking what happened to version 13 through 19 – FL Studio developers, Image-Line, decided to take a different approach to […]
IK Multimedia UNO – a dive into the analog synthesizer limelight The IK Multimedia UNO sees the company proudly announce their first steps into the world of affordable analog synthesizers. IK Multimedia’s legendary Erik Norlander (one of the key players behind the iconic Alesis Andromeda) has teamed up with the modular synthesizer manufacturers, Soundmachines, to […]
The legendary ACID Pro 8 returns after almost 10 years After almost 10 years since the last significant update, Magix ACID Pro makes a stellar comeback with version 8. Magix ACID Pro 8 makes the well-renowned DAW platform much more relevant in today’s competitive DAW market. Magix have revamped the entire user interface, everything looks […]
Three (almost) FREE DAWs to get you making music Producing your own tracks launches you above the rest of the DJ market, but it can be a daunting process and also an expensive one unless you find some free DAWs to get started. With so many DAWs on the market it can be overwhelming for […]
Akai MPC 2.2 update brings a host of handy new features The Akai MPC update sees both Akai’s standalone hardware OS, alongside their software DAW gain a plethora of new features with the latest update. Users of the Akai MPC X, MPC Live and MPC 2 software will be thrilled to hear that the 2.2 […]
Propellerhead Reason 10 Intro, an affordable way to start producing music Propellerhead just announced that they’re adding a new product to the line-up, hoping to get more producers in on the ground-level, and that’s Reason 10 Intro. Propellerhead’s new “Intro” version is packed with 10 instruments, 11 effects and the regular workflow features you would […]
Sonar is now known as Cakewalk by BandLab and is FREE Cakewalk has provenance, which came to an almost sudden-end last year when Gibson announced the end of the DAW’s life. However, BandLab technologies just announced that they will be resurrecting the long-revered DAW, as they have just bought the intellectual properties. Not only will […]
Audulus goes big with the 3.5 update, adding hundreds of modules Audulus 3.5 introduces huge graphic updates and hundreds of exciting new modules to their intuitive modular synthesis software. Audulus is an incredibly expansive tool for sound design and music creation, offering a wide range of possibilities and a very easy-to-use, minimalist interface. Audulus 3.5 […]
