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Get free industrial drums for Splice INSTRUMENT

Splice BlogDAW & pluginsGet free industrial drums for Splice INSTRUMENT Download our free industrial drums preset for Splice INSTRUMENT—grab these presets during the drop window and they’re yours to keep forever.

Serum 2 Filters: A Practical Guide to Sound Design

EDMProdVoicesSerum 2 Filters: A Practical Guide to Sound Design Explore Serum 2’s filters through audio examples, close-up screenshots, moving demonstrations, and practical exercises—from low-pass basics to combs, formants, Diffusor, and PZ SVF.

The Best Delay Sounds in H9 Harmonizer® Gen 2: Leon Todd’s Favorite Presets

Eventide AudioMakersThe Best Delay Sounds in H9 Harmonizer® Gen 2: Leon Todd’s Favorite Presets Explore Leon Todd’s exclusive H9 Harmonizer® Gen 2 preset pack, featuring 15 handcrafted delay presets built for creative inspiration.

Samplotron Keypad Version – DIY ESP32 Sampler & Loop Player | Live Demo

MatrixSynthSynthsSamplotron Keypad Version – DIY ESP32 Sampler & Loop Player | Live Demo video upload by Illegal State Of Mind "Meet the keypad version of Samplotron — my DIY hardware sampler and loop player built around the ESP32. In this demo I’m using Samplotron to trigger samples and loops live. Some of

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Fire-Toolz on unconventional sound design, go-to plugins, and her new sample pack

Splice BlogDAW & pluginsFire-Toolz on unconventional sound design, go-to plugins, and her new sample pack Prolific producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Fire-Toolz shares her insights on sound design, sample creation, and more.

Ableton Operator: The Complete Guide to FM Sound Design

EDMProdVoicesAbleton Operator: The Complete Guide to FM Sound Design A complete guide to Ableton Operator, from FM ratios and envelopes to evolving pads, donk basses, gritty Reeses, and a controlled randomization rack. Follow detailed screenshots and audio examples from John’s tutorial. T

Ableton Wavetable: The Complete Guide to Sound Design

EDMProdVoicesAbleton Wavetable: The Complete Guide to Sound Design A complete guide to Ableton Wavetable, from oscillator shapes and modulation to expressive performance controls and five full sound-design projects. Follow close-up screenshots, animations, and audio examples from John’s

The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, August 2026

Bandcamp DailyScenesThe Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, August 2026 The best sounds captured outside the studio in August. Read full story on the Bandcamp Daily .

PISS announce debut album ‘you made me / skin on linen’ alongside single ‘time loop at hot slit’

DIY MagazineScenesPISS announce debut album ‘you made me / skin on linen’ alongside single ‘time loop at hot slit’ The Vancouver quartet’s debut is due out on 30th October.

Harry Potter and the Sound Designer’s Stone

Twenty Thousand HertzVoicesHarry Potter and the Sound Designer’s Stone Harry Potter has been brought to life on page and screen. But what would it take to make the wizarding world come alive using sound alone? In this episode, we go behind the scenes of the new full-cast editions of the Har

BigSky MX Preset Pack 1

StrymonGuitarsBigSky MX Preset Pack 1 Explore Our First BigSky MX Preset Pack! As part of the latest Nixie 2 update, we’ve put together a free BigSky MX preset pack featuring sounds from our original sound samples — carefully crafted tones that didn’t make i

Serum 2 Presets: The Best FREE Packs in Any Genre

EDMProdVoicesSerum 2 Presets: The Best FREE Packs in Any Genre MASTER SERUM 2 Build a preset librarythat’s yours. Follow hands-on lessons with John Kammerer and create your own sounds in Serum 2. See what you’ll learn ↗ Inside Master Serum 2 · Course lesson preview Serum was an abso

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XLR is a magazine, a radar and a diary about music gear and the making of music — for the people who make records and put on shows, wherever they do it.

The name is the three-pin connector that every signal in the business passes through: the microphone on stage and in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX cable that runs the lights. Studio, stage and lighting rig share it, and so does this magazine. Every few hours XLR collects what the makers shipped, what the reviewers heard, what the studios and the touring crews are doing, which producers and collectives are surfacing and what they are saying — synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lights, the rooms and the people — from a few hundred sources in English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese and more, then plots what is moving. The editor writes a letter every few days. Nothing is sold here; when a link leads to a shop, that is the maker's shop, not ours.