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Splice BlogDAW & pluginsWin $1,000 and get your music heard by KSHMR via our song contest Enter our song contest hosted by globally-acclaimed producer and artist KSHMR for the chance to win $1,000, five years of Splice and Dharma Studio, and more.

11.13

Splice BlogDAW & pluginsLaidback Luke makes a rave track with Splice Create Watch DJ and producer legend Laidback Luke as he makes a rave track from scratch with Splice Create.

11.09

Splice BlogDAW & pluginsIntroducing Splice Create: A full DAW powered by Splice Introducing Splice Create, an all-in-one DAW for the new era of music production with Splice's catalog, instruments, and effects built in.

11.05

Splice BlogDAW & pluginsBT breaks down Phoenix, his new hybrid synth built with Spitfire Audio Legendary producer BT gives a masterclass on Phoenix, showcasing some of its most distinctive features while offering his own insights on how the hybrid synth came together.

11.02

Splice BlogDAW & plugins9 music production elements common in horror themes Explore songwriting and music production techniques that embody the horror genre, and then check out our collection of 50 Halloween samples on Splice.

10.30

Splice BlogDAW & pluginsExplore historic synthesizers (TR-909, ARP 2600, and more) with Ultrastation Ultrasonic break down the sound and stories of historic synthesizers including the TR-909, ARP 2600, EMS Synthi A, Minimoog, Eurorack, and more.

10.29

Splice BlogDAW & pluginsPlay John Legend’s vintage electric piano John Legend discusses his new vintage electric piano on Splice INSTRUMENT, what he hopes for the next generation of musicians, and more.

10.27

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.