In this Synth Secrets, we'll be showing you how to make an explosive FM lead sound inspired by Noisia's remix of 'Hold Your Colour'. Pendulum’s 2005 track 'Hold Your Colour' is a favourite of many drum & bass die-hards. It only stands to reason that Noisia’s 2018 remix of the same tune would be a dance floor devastator, and Noisia surely didn’t disappoint. In today’s Synth Secrets, we're going to make a lead sound heavily inspired by Noisia’s work on the track. It’s a straight-ahead, hard-hitting lead that can sound deceivingly simple when you listen in the club or in the car, but you qui ..read more

Analog, digital and even plugins, Korg’s Drumlogue has it all - but is it enough? And what's it like for making dance music? After quite a long wait from announcement to realization, the Korg Drumlogue is finally out in the world. It follows in the same family as the Minilogue, Prologue and Minilogue XD, and shares the latter two instruments’ analog plus digital hybrid approach to sound synthesis. Along with four analog voices, Drumlogue additionally offers sample-based percussion plus the User Oscillator, a digital sound engine that supports third-party instruments and effects (it comes load ..read more

Hailing from France, Maud Geffray has turned her talents to the dance floor with her latest mixtape 'Nite Sessions'. The project showcases eight rave-infused remixes of songs from her highly regarded electronica albums 'Ad Astra' (2022) and 'Polaar' (2017). We asked Maud to walk us through the making of 'Nite Sessions' and talk a bit about the motivation behind the decidedly heavier sound. Maud Geffray: The idea for my Mixtape 'Nite Sessions' was to create a collection of reworks from my two albums 'Ad Astra' and 'Polaar'. I wanted to show a new vision of my tracks, i ..read more

This time on Beat Dissected we'll be showing you how to create groovy electro drums in the style of Alexander Robotnick's iconic 'Problèmes D'Amour' using only Ableton's stock samples and effects. 'Problèmes D'Amour' may be a legendary song nowadays but that certainly wasn't always the case. The track, Italian musician Maurizio Dami's first single under the name Alexander Robotnick, sold 10,000 copies upon its initial release in 1983. Today that may seem like a success but back in those days, it was considered to a flop. Maybe the release just didn't get to the right ears initially or maybe t ..read more

Attack Magazine will select one lucky participant at random to receive a brand new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card (valued at £649.00) courtesy of GPU Audio. Read on to find out how to enter. GPU Audio’s software harnesses the power of your computer’s GPU (graphics card) for the processing of audio, resulting in ultra-low latencies and parallel processing - surpassing what is possible on CPUs alone. In an interview with Attack Magazine last year, GPU Audio co-founder Jonathan Rowden discussed what makes their software so special. He describes the technology as a "fundamental innovation ..read more

Korg are back with another Odyssey release, this time a full-size kit. Is a 51-year-old analog synth still relevant in the 21st century? Everything Everywhere All At Once is a movie title but it could just as well apply to the state of the synthesizer market in 2023. We have every type of hardware synthesizer - from keys to desktop to modular (in multiple formats, no less) - combined with every kind of synthesis. We’re also being inundated with updates, remakes and clones of all manner, with new ones being announced all the time. Like the movie’s multiverse, something somewhere is going to ha ..read more

When an artist struggled to cover their transport costs to their gig, what message did that send to the wider community? In part 1 of a two-part series, Maeve de Bordóns Álvarez, assesses what is changing in the clubs to make lineups more sustainable. And what is "underground" anyway? What's the Issue? I’ve been around parties and DJs since my mid-teens. As I evolved from partygoer to party organiser, and part-time booking agent, I’ve been exposed to different perspectives of the industry's ins and outs. When a few people close to me recently expressed they were struggling to cover transport ..read more

Ooooh, it's crossword number 13! Lucky for some and not so lucky for others! This month’s crossword continues the theme of music production and general music entertainment. If you know your 80s producers, 80s genres and other bits, you'll be fine. If you don't it will be unlucky number 13 for you! Enjoy! [crossword id="125105"] [product-collection] Follow Attack Magazine [social-links facebook="https://www.facebook.com/GpuAudio/" twitter="https://twitter.com/gpuaudio" instagram="https://www.instagram.com/gpuaudio/" youtube="https://www.youtube.com/gpuaudio" tiktok="https://www.tiktok.com/@gpu ..read more

How do you introduce someone who has racked up 12 million clicks on Spotify alone? North Shields native Schak stormed onto the scene last year with his debut single 'Movin All Around ('Jumpin')' featuring Kim English. Released on Trick, Patrick Topping's label, the track quickly caught on. With a who's who on the remixes, including Skream and John Summit, Schak's sound captured the summer. We'd have been keen to 'introduce' him towards the end of the last summer but it's not been easy to track him down. He is after 'Moving All Around' with a busy tour schedule ahead of him. Who are you? Schak ..read more

In this article, we show you some beginner modulation techniques to liven up your synth parts using the modulation matrix in Wavetable within Ableton Live. Modulation is a key synthesis element. Good modulation programming can transform a boring and stale sound into one that is exciting and vibrant. It’s also not hard to do once you know your way around a modulation matrix. In a recent tutorial, 10 Common Modulation Routings Using Ableton Wavetable, we introduced some basic modulation techniques and showed how to set them up in Wavetable. Today, we’ll be applying those core techniques to vari ..read more