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

CDM — Create Digital MusicGear

Techno original Sean Tate, aka The Butcher, has died

September 25

It's a painful year for techno's originators and Detroit. News is spreading today that Sean Tate, aka The Butcher and an iconic techno originator, has died.

Read at CDM — Create Digital Music ↗

One letter a week, in your inbox.

Latest

Techno original Sean Tate, aka The Butcher, has died

More from CDM — Create Digital Music on XLR MAG

GearResolume 7.28 uses vision to let you play with intelligent live effects and blends CDM — Create Digital Music

GearElektron is halting sharing of mods and hacks on its forums; official comments CDM — Create Digital Music

GearOldest recorded voices, haunted dolls, and more from Tempest Instruments CDM — Create Digital Music

GearCook every day: read Suzanne Ciani’s 1976 Buchla Cookbook, for free CDM — Create Digital Music

GearAdam Wiltzie talks about his posthumous collaboration with Jóhann Jóhannsson CDM — Create Digital Music

Gearx0xb0x, the synth that launched an open-source hardware boom, is reborn CDM — Create Digital Music