Imagine a sound, a tone. Engineering and math might go into creating a musical instrument that can make that tone, but that same sound also depends on acoustics, perception, creativity — a multitude ...

Why do producers keep choosing analog drum synths over digital alternatives, even when technology has advanced so dramat ...

Guitar Rig 6 is a powerful multieffects processor. Along with traditional guitar-focused components there are a wealth of studio effects to shape and characterise your sound. The 54 original effects ...

Many of our tutorials focus on the more tuneful side of synth sound design – albeit hopefully pushing our soft synths to the extreme with everything from imaginative tweaks to full-on modulation ...

Charismatic objects that squeak, rumble and clang were produced by industrial design students at Ohio State University who ...

There’s a long history in film of finished musical scores being rushed to the final mixing stage and then being shoehorned in amid the dialog and effects in a sometimes contentious battle over sonic ...

Watch in awe as violinist Teppei Okada soundtracks a live game of Super Mario Bros. Everything from hitting a brick block, to squashing an enemy Goomba or absorbing a Super Star, has its own quirky ...

Belgian researcher Bert Schiettecatte and his company, Percussa, launched AudioCubes in 2007. These palm-size plastic cubes don't technically produce sound; they control it. They work with a system ...