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With its latest free update, Ableton has finally turned Note into the app I always wanted it to be
By Si Truss published
Offline MIDI editing makes Ableton’s iPhone and iPad app more of a must-have iOS companion for Live users

Drum heroes: Wrecking Crew legend Hal Blaine, Neil Peart's "six favourite drummers"
By MusicRadar published
"We got the job done, and we made a hell of a lot of money doing it"

"It was ugly, like watching a divorce between four people. After a while, I had to get out": Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick on the recording of Abbey Road, track-by-track
By Joe Bosso last updated
A classic interview with the band's late chief engineer – "You could really see the joy in their faces as they played; it was like they were teenagers again"

“Thank God we let that church choir in!” How Def Leppard created a rock anthem with a little bit of divine intervention
By Paul Elliott published
"Thank God we let that church choir in!”

Baby Audio's Smooth Operator spectral balancing plugin goes pro
By Matt Mullen published
With a redesigned interface and an upgraded core algorithm, Smooth Operator Pro promises to address common mix issues and improve balance and clarity

YouTube just added AI tools that makes musicians, library music and video editors redundant
By Daniel Griffiths published
Just in case you were wondering which side of the fence Google falls on in the ‘AI Versus Music’ debate. Answer: It bloody loves it

"Every one of them said yes": Hank Marvin and Roger Taylor have just remade a classic for charity
By Daniel Griffiths published
With a little help from Simon Phillips, Peter Erskine, Nick D’Virgilio, Eric Manegold, Vinnie Colaiuta, and more

More fees and spiralling ticket prices: When you buy a gig ticket, where does your money really go?
By Daniel Griffiths published
With the LiveNation and Ticketmaster merger under legal threat in the U.S. a new report has broken down each dollar of an average gig ticket
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