MusicTech

04/10/2025

Telepathic Instruments, co-founded by Kevin Parker of Tame Impala, has announced the global release of its wildly popular synth and chord generator, the Orchid.⁣ More info on next week's launch: https://musictech.com/news/gear/telepathic-instruments-orchid-global-release/

03/10/2025

With a free trial available, why not spend your weekend vocoding? 👀

The DigiTech Talker was a vocoder favourite of Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo.

03/10/2025

The best part? It’s completely free! 👀

Eventide Audio has launched Temperance Lite, a free plugin that introduces what it calls the world’s first “musical reverb”.

03/10/2025

“Every engineer knows the frustration of chasing mixes that don’t translate outside the studio,” says Andrew Allen, Product & Marketing Director at Audient.

A “compact yet powerful” room correction system, ORIA Mini delivers “professional-grade” acoustic calibration in a dedicated hardware device.

03/10/2025

“This is just the beginning of what’s possible when we combine Spitfire Audio’s artistry with Splice’s innovation.”

03/10/2025

Nothing, the London-based company that made a name for itself with its distinctive Nothing Phone, has launched the intriguing Headphone (1). Their first full-sized headphone model, it enters a crowded marketplace of around-£300 models offering a bunch of tech on top of hi-fi sound.

Read MusicTech's review of the Nothing Headphone (1): https://musictech.com/reviews/consumer/nothing-headphone-1-review/

02/10/2025

“We took a truly hands-on approach, spending weeks meticulously sampling Novation, Sequential, and Oberheim synths in order to showcase the beauty of each model.”

Novation has launched Novation Play, a new plugin loaded with over 80 sounds sampled from Novation, Sequential and Oberheim synthesizers.

02/10/2025

“Most importantly – it’s a wake-up call. Oppose AI music, or bands like us stop existing,” says Holding Absence singer Lucas Woodland.

With the availability of AI music generators, it was inevitable AI-generated music would find its way into people’s playlists. But what about when it starts outperforming the music of artists upon which it has been trained?

01/10/2025

When Sudan Archives set out to make her new album, she named it The BPM because she knew she wanted it at a certain speed.

A central reason for picking up the pace is her live show. “In the past, a lot of people viewed me as this spectacle. They weren’t really dancing. The music wasn’t really danceable either, because the BPM was more of [a] midtempo, trip-hop vibe. I was tired of people just staring.”

Read the MusicTech cover story with Sudan Archives: https://musictech.com/features/interviews/sudan-archives/

📸 Ben Bentley⁣ for MusicTech

01/10/2025

The crossover arrives more than five years after the French duo officially announced their breakup.

Fans are calling Fortnite’s Daft Punk Experience “one last, perfect concert”, and for some, it’s provided an emotional farewell to the French duo.

01/10/2025

The successor to the 808 and 909 arrives with analogue circuitry, modern digital and sampling firepower and a TON of k***s.

More than four decades after the TR-808 and TR-909 rewrote the rulebook on rhythm, Roland has launched a brand new analogue drum machine: the TR-1000 Rhythm Creator.

30/09/2025

And here’s how you can get one…

Telepathic Instruments – the gear brand co-founded by Kevin Parker, better known as Tame Impala – has announced the global launch of Orchid.