You might know Kontakt as the sampler shell that wraps around your Native Instrument ... but perhaps the best feature is the ability to simply drag the MIDI notes of your chords and progressions into ...

If you're an avid independent composer or producer looking for the best ... virtual instruments. If you've heard of effects like "reverb" or "delay," these are all created inside the DAW.

At 18, after years of singing in choirs, she bought a laptop and taught herself how to use a digital audio workstations (DAW) through online ... to make the music the best it can be.

In our 2015 interview surrounding the production behind Art Angels, Boucher told us about some of her favourite plugins: “I love the Nexus VST and Native Instruments’ Massive, and I really ...

The 4th platform to join the Snapdragon X Series, Snapdragon X, brings AI PC leadership to Copilot+ PCs, with now over 60 designs in production or development and more than 100 coming by 2026.

If you're going to start recording your own music, you'll need to pair up your audio interface, studio monitors, and studio headphones with one of the best DAWs. A DAW - short for Digital Audio ...

Luna is Universal Audio's free DAW, although UA doesn't really like us using the term 'DAW'. That's because Luna offers a near latency-free recording environment, very much based on hardware studios ...

The Australian manufacturer looks set to release a controller that features the specially developed, self-rotating knobs from ...

The UK's most and least loved musical instruments of 2024 have been revealed ... The electric guitar triumphed as the best selling instrument, closely by followed by the keyboard, acoustic ...

Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading member of CNET's Reviews team since 2000. He covers the gamut of gadgets and is a notable reviewer of mobile accessories and portable audio ...

The Band-in-a-Box 2022 DAW Plugin offers over 40 great new features including a Chord Settings dialog (with Chord Builder, Chord Theory, and MicroChords tabs), the MicroChords (allows for multiple ...

Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading member of CNET's Reviews team since 2000. He covers the gamut of gadgets and is a notable reviewer of mobile accessories and portable audio ...