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.

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

← XLR MAG Archive

MatrixSynthSynths

HALF-ALIVE - A Halloween Ghost Story from City 53

10.31

video upload by Cinematic Laboratory One more AI horror below. "Welcome to City 53, where humanity lives under a mysterious occupation, artificial intelligence speaks with a reassuring voice, and…

Modular AI in music eurorack Halloween intellijel

Read at MatrixSynth ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

HALF-ALIVE - A Halloween Ghost Story from City 53

Related

SynthsThe Module You Asked For: Introducing the Shadow Coven MatrixSynth

SynthsPhilosophy of Freedom (Buchla 208c - Frap Magnolia - Torso S4) a song by gattobus MatrixSynth

SynthsCre8Audio NiftyKEYZ Eurorack Case with 49-Key MIDI Controller MatrixSynth

SynthsFingerlab BloopMachine: the TB-303’s glitchy, generative sibling for iOS/macOS Synth Anatomy

ScenesUrthboy Takes Aim At Tech Billionaires & AI On New Album ‘Reckless Bloom’ Music Feeds

IndustrySuno Is Keeping the Pressure on the Mechanical Licensing Collective; Court Orders MLC Subpoena Response by Monday Digital Music News