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CRSSD Festival has confirmed its complete lineup for its Fall 2026 edition, returning to Waterfront Park in San Diego on 26 and 27 September. Headlining the two-day event are Chris Lake b2b Disclosure (DJ set) and Mochakk, alongside a bill stacked with electronic music heavyweights. Also confirmed are 999999999, Boys Noize, Groove Armada (DJ set), I Hate Models, Marlon Hoffstadt, Mathame and VTSS.

Grabbing vocal samples from the internet or vinyl? Here’s how to clean up voice rips with LALAL.AI and its new algorithm, Lynx, and use them in tracks. There’s nothing like a vocal sample to spice up a track. Whether that be an acapella, a stem, or a bit of dialog from an old movie, a well-timed voice can add depth and interest to most any production. However, not every sample will be as clean as you might want. YouTube videos can be poor quality.

Off the back of new single “Show Me”, Kashovski takes on our Q&A, covering everything from Zidane to his greatest fear. God’s judgement. Sometimes I’m a bit too reserved. A professional athlete. Maybe football, if I’d been good enough. I once played a private party where the guy who booked me spent the first 20 minutes dancing alone in front of me, asking for nothing but my own tracks. Thankfully, my worst tracks are still sitting on my hard drive. Reading a crowd. The original Ibiza beach afterparties.

It’s not often an instrument tells you what it is so blatantly. And perhaps there’s a reason for that, as SuperStarSaw is far more than the one-trick pony its name suggests. It’s not uncommon for me to start a review with a disclaimer or controversial statement, so here goes: I really like SuperStarSaw… but not for its ‘super saw’ patches. And I’m not even sure that sound is the best reason to buy it.

New plugin combines resonator‑based acoustic emulation with subtractive synthesis, launching at an introductory price of $99. reFX has released Rippler, a new plugin that combines physical modelling with subtractive synthesis across two independent layers. The plugin is available now for macOS 10.13 and later, supporting both Apple Silicon and Intel processors, and for Windows 10 and above, in VST, Audio Units and AAX formats.

With so many kick drum samples available, it’s easy to overlook the benefits of programming your own. It only takes seconds. Kick drums, eh? You can’t live with ‘em, but you can’t live without programming ‘em. Except, of course, you can – there are bloody millions of kick samples to choose from! So why bother programming your own? Three reasons, really. 1. It’s a great way to really tailor your kick to your track. 2. It helps your productions stand out. 3.

If you make a genre like jungle, IDM or breakcore, you need a tracker. These are the five best trackers available, plus how to bring one into your workflow. We’re all familiar with the traditional DAW sequencer, which scrolls along a timeline from left to right. Most major DAWs use some kind of horizontal sequencer, with note information represented as blocks on a piano roll, but this is not the only game in town.

The new soft synth adapts A. G. Cook’s layered supersaw production techniques for a dedicated plug-in. Super*Saw combines dual oscillator banks, patch morphing, harmonic tools, effects and Native Instruments hardware integration. Native Instruments has released Super*Saw, a soft synth developed with British producer and PC Music founder A. G. Cook.

Telepathic Instruments’ Orchid is a fantastic chord generator from Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, but can it appeal to dance music producers too? Telepathic Instruments describe their synthesizer Orchid as an ideas machine. The Orchid ORC-1 (to use its full name) sprung from the mind of Kevin Parker, he of Tame Impala fame.

Image-Line has released FL Studio 2026, the latest version of its long-running DAW, as a free update for users under the company’s Lifetime Free Updates policy. The update is available now and focuses on the kind of improvements that can affect everyday sessions: faster sound browsing, safer project storage, cleaner routing and more help inside the software itself. Rather than being built around one headline feature, FL Studio 2026 touches several parts of the production process.