MusicTech

01/06/2026

Fancy owning a deadmau5-signed microKORG, modular gear or Vegas-used mau5head? Joel Zimmerman is clearing out parts of his synth universe.

Reverb has announced the upcoming launch of the Official deadmau5 Reverb Shop, and it’s bringing a little bit of everything from the deadmau5 universe with it.

01/06/2026

Jack Antonoff explains why artists should strip back their production.

“Maybe all this is just a f*****g reaction to culture and the concept of interesting sounds being more duplicable than they ever were.”

27/05/2026

Jesse Terry made just two prototypes using Lego, allowing him to trial different button placements and test its ergonomics.

Jesse Terry, Head of Hardware at Ableton, has shared the story of his early prototypes for its Push system, which were made with Lego bricks.

27/05/2026

The plugin also includes added saturation control, spatialisation, and sidechain features for the modern music maker.

Softube has unveiled the Bus Processor 670, a new plugin designed to capture the “magic” of the legendary dual-channel variable-mu tube compressor.

27/05/2026

Play around with 250 presets and bring botanical, earth-inspired textures to your music…

Excite Audio has unveiled Evolve Nest Acoustics, the first collaborative plugin in its Evolve series, which is inspired by different materials.

26/05/2026

The new MOMENTUM 5 headphones have a replaceable battery, and all you’ll need to change it is a small screwdriver…

The new MOMENTUM 5 headphones have a replaceable battery, and all you’ll need to change it is a small screwdriver...

25/05/2026

UDO Audio's DMNO is challenging the polysynth landscape by finding the "dead branches" of synthesis. "The Prophet-5 set the standard for how it's still done today…But there were other ways of doing it," says UDO founder Georgele Hearn. Central to the success of UDO – and to the premise of the DMNO – is a supreme sense of play; game-ifying the creation of music production and the synths we choose to tinker with.

“I think music technology has a problem with admitting to itself what it's all about,” he says. “And it's about enjoyment, isn't it? And play. And enjoying music. Enjoying creativity!”

UDO's DMNO is MusicTech's cover star for May 2026. Read the full feature: https://musictech.com/features/interviews/udo-dmno/



Words: Vincent Joseph
Photography: Simon Vinall /

22/05/2026

“In this second wave of AI in music, the creator comes first,” says Kakul Srivastava, CEO of Splice.

Music creation platform Splice has partnered with AI company ElevenLabs to build a number of “next-generation AI-powered creative tools” which will be released later this year.

21/05/2026

Aava can modulate every parameter of impulse responses in real-time.

Viiri Audio has stepped onto the scene with Aava, a brand new digital creative convolution processor.