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There are a lot of articles on pursuing your career as a DJ or music producer, but when is the right time to start charging for your art? This article aims to share perspectives on the market and outlooks from label and artist points of…

Asian Hawk is a soulful DJ who we featured before for his turntablism and vocal performances. Now, he is back without the turntables with a performance that depends primarily on a vocal effects unit, the TC-Helicon Perform VE. Read more…

Cloud based production services are becoming a dominant new set of tools for producers. Read our comparative review of three such services - Noiiz, Splice Sounds, and Loopcloud.

UK electronic music musicians Coldcut are now offering their MidiVolve tool in the Ableton Max for Live pack store. This M4L device is an arpeggiator, riff generator, and a sequencer all in one device. For producers who are hitting a…

Ableton announced the release of Live 9.6 yesterday, bringing with it a plethora of improvements, from slicing audio to a Drum Rack, to extending Push 2 capabilities. Along with the in-house updates, Live 9.6 also comes with Ableton's…

For Black Friday, many companies put on a super-sized holiday sale - many of which are some of the best prices that DJs and producers will see all year. This is especially true in the software and digital instrument world. We've rounded up…

Apps are moving to the cloud - and we've seen a surge of powerful production tools that have cropped up around the web. These online tools are finally gaining some legitimacy and versatility with the latest Google Chrome update which adds…

Producers know very well that feeling when one hears a song and thinks, "I could make a killer remix!" After downloading the stems and before they can begin working on a killer remix, they have to spend a significant amount of time…