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Plugins & DAWs · 125 stories, +62 vs last week

Plugins & DAWs: 125 stories in seven days, +62 on the week before.

SynthsM-VAVE FM-1 with KARMA firmware: four tracks, stems and MIDI into Ableton MatrixSynth

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MatrixSynthSynthsM-VAVE FM-1 with KARMA firmware: four tracks, stems and MIDI into Ableton video upload by SLEAZTEK You can find the M-VAVE FM-1 on Amazon. "And Karma is out… I can’t wait to see what you’re all gonna do with it. "KARMA is free, open-source firmware for the M-VAVE FM-1.

MatrixSynthSynthsUpcoming at MMT video upload by Todd Barton "Two great livestreams coming up at the Museum Of Music Technology. Howard Moscovitz & Friends livestream link: https://tickets.themmt.org/events/mmt...

MatrixSynthSynthsNew Controllers And Interfaces: Synido & MIDIPLUS - Music China 2026 video upload by sonicstate Synido on Amazon "Millie from Synido showed us their products - W25 Play, TempoKey K32 Play, Scale Pocket, Gaming A7 and LiveDock A20 Pro.

Magnetic MagazineLive & DJDiego Miranda (CH) Debuts on Magnetic Magazine Recordings With “Love Odyssey” Chilean producer Diego Miranda (CH) is back with “Love Odyssey,” his latest progressive house single, released October 30 through Magnetic Magazine Recordings.

Music ConnectionIndustryTrueblood Signs With Mercury Records Date Signed: January 2026 Label: Mercury Records Band Members: Cameron Trueblood, drums; Dylan Trueblood, guitar; Mason Trueblood, vocals, guitars; Ethan Trueblood, bass Genre: Alternative Rock…

Magnetic MagazineLive & DJStarry Venus Makes Feeling An Act Of Motion Some spiritual language can flatten a record before anyone gets to the song. It gets too abstract, too soft around the edges, and suddenly the music starts sounding like it exists to explain an idea…

Digital Music NewsIndustrySuno Is Keeping the Pressure on the Mechanical Licensing Collective; Court Orders MLC Subpoena Response by Monday The Fred D. Thompson U.S. Courthouse and Federal Building. Photo Credit: Antony-22 Suno is charging ahead with its Mechanical Licensing Collective subpoena, and the MLC now has until Monday to…

Magnetic MagazineLive & DJNau Leone On Keeping EGO DEATH Personal I think one of the more difficult parts of producing music is knowing when to ask somebody for help and when you need to figure something out yourself.

Mix OnlineGearSteve Vai on Power, The ‘SatchVai’ Album and More Steve Vai is currently on the road with BEAT, as seen here at Quarry Amphitheater at USC Santa Cruz, CA. Photo: Steve Jennings / Getty Images.

Guitar WorldGuitarsJuly 2026 Guitar World Editors' Picks Hello there, and welcome to Guitar World Editors’ Picks – our monthly guide to the guitar tracks that have captured the attention of our editors over the past four weeks or so.

Guitar PlayerGuitarsWhen Dolly Parton shocked heavy metal legend Rob Halford: “She goes, ‘I love your beard,’ and starts to clean it!” Dolly Parton collaborated with everyone from Linda Ronstadt and Paul McCartney to Ringo Starr and, in 2025, Mötley Crüe.

Mix OnlineGearCraig Anderton’s Open Channel: The State of AI (as of This Millisecond) Before we discuss the current state of AI, please read the following instructions: Insert “At least as of now…” before every sentence.

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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.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: 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.

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