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Attack MagazineGearBuilding Beats With Ableton Live 13 Ableton Live 13 is now in public beta. We put the new Drum Synth, Step Sequencer, Transient Shaper, and Clipper to work and build a beat from scratch. Three years after Live 10, Live 11 arrived.

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Attack MagazineGearLive 13 Introduces Step Sequencer, Drum Synth, ARA 2 & New Racks Ableton has announced Live 13, with a Step Sequencer, Drum Synth, Multiband Racks and ARA 2 support. A public beta is available now. Ableton has unveiled Live 13.

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Attack MagazineGearErica Synths: The Best Hardware FX For Electronic Music Producer Eraldo Bernocchi is no stranger to hardware effects. We asked him to explain how he gets his unique sound, both on guitar and other instruments, and he came back with recommendations for…

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Attack MagazineGearGetting Started With Emulators: How To Run Real Hardware Synths In Your DAW It may seem like some kind of crazy dream but you really can load actual hardware synthesizers into your DAW now. Here’s how to do it – but aren’t emulators illegal?

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Attack MagazineGearCatz ‘n Dogz: “We Were Completely Overstimulated” We talk to Grzegorz Demiańczuk of Catz ‘n Dogz about escaping the algorithms and making their most human album, Finally.

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Attack MagazineGearIs Private Equity Destroying Music Production? Native Instruments was only the tip of the iceberg. Private equity is pervasive in the music production industry, tied up with hardware, software and music distribution companies.

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Attack MagazineGearThe Best Photos From CRSSD Festival Fall 2026 As the sun sets on another CRSSD Festival, enjoy the best photos from a weekend of house and techno. Photo: @itskinderella Photo: @imkeiki Photo: @fixationphotography Photo: @itskinderella Photo…

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Attack MagazineGearLars Huismann: “Instead Of Writing A Melody, I Use Filters” With System Collapse out now on Dax J’s Monnom Black, Berlin’s Lars Huismann shows us around the attic studio where it was made.

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Attack MagazineGearCreate Syncopated 2-Step Grooves Like A Pirate Inspired by the swung grooves that have travelled from home studios and pirate radio to global festivals, let’s see how to make tight, timeless 2-step beats.

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Attack MagazineGearWho’s Buying All These Vibe-Coded Plugins? Vibe-coded plugins are everywhere but does that mean that they’re actually taking over the market? We look at the trend and speak with two developers working with AI as part of their process.

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Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

More than three hundred sources, in sixteen languages: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.