Tech News Archives

The Cassette Is Gone. The Character Is Code Now.

Tech NewsJuly 28, 2026July 28, 2026

Somewhere between nostalgia and stubbornness sits the compact cassette, and a developer named Andrey Romanov has built a tool to bottle its sound. Audio-Cassette-Simulation is a set of scripts that…

Rhythm System mk6 Review: The 55 Inch Transparent DJ Screen, and What It Costs

Tech NewsJuly 20, 2026July 20, 2026

Every few years the transparent DJ screen comes back around. Smithson Martin’s Emulator arrived about fifteen years ago, put a projector in a base, threw an image onto frosted glass…

Not since Vestax: Teenage Engineering’s APC-2 takes on the vinyl cutting bottleneck

Featured Tech NewsJuly 20, 2026July 20, 2026

Not since the Vestax VRX-2000 has an off the shelf record cutting lathe felt like a genuine shift in who gets to make a record. Teenage Engineering’s new APC-2, built…

Korg Has Released NTS-4: A Build-It-Yourself Analog Performance Mixer for Hardware Setups

Tech NewsJuly 14, 2026July 14, 2026

KORG announced the NTS-4, a compact analog performance mixer kit designed for hardware setups built around the volca series, NTS instruments, Eurorack modular gear and desktop synths. Launching July, 10th 2026…

FL Studio 2026 has arrived

Tech NewsJuly 9, 2026July 9, 2026

FL Studio, today announced the launch of FL Studio 2026. Available now as a free download for all existing FL Studio license holders through the company’s Lifetime Free Updates policy,…

AlphaTheta’s CDJ-1500X: flagship DNA, bar and club sized

Tech NewsJuly 2, 2026July 2, 2026

AlphaTheta has introduced the CDJ-1500X, a new DJ multi player aimed at bars, small clubs and any setup where space is limited. The unit carries over a number of features…

Ableton Extensions SDK:An experimental playground inside Live Suite

Tech NewsJune 4, 2026June 4, 2026

Ableton today launches the public beta of its new Extensions Software Development Kit (SDK) – an open JavaScript toolkit allowing anyone to create custom tools that expand the possibilities inside…

Ableton Live 12.4 is now available for download

Tech NewsMay 5, 2026May 5, 2026

Ableton Live 12.4 is now available for download. Free for all Live 12 users, this update introduces new ways to create and collaborate in Live, plus new features and improvements…

Evermix & DJKIT Join Forces to Build a Bigger Future for DJs

Music Industry Tech NewsApril 30, 2026April 30, 2026

Our favourite and go-to system for recording – Evermix, has announced that parent company Optimum Tech Holdings has acquired 50% of DJKIT -one of the UK’s most established DJ retailers…

Serato Expands Hardware Support to 3 Pioneer Mixers with SDJ 4.0.6

Tech NewsApril 9, 2026April 9, 2026

Serato announced hardware compatibility in Serato DJ Pro 4.0.6 for three iconic Pioneer DJ mixers, the DJM-250MK2, DJM-750MK2, and DJM-450. Officially mapped by Serato, DJs can now seamlessly integrate Serato DJ Pro and DVS with their…

Bumpboxx Rebuilds an Icon: Meet the BB-777

Tech NewsApril 7, 2026April 7, 2026

If you were of a certain age in the 1980s, the boombox was simply part of the landscape. It sat on shoulders at the beach, anchored the corner of the…

Korg Revives the Vestax Handy Traxx Portable Turntable

Tech Tech NewsApril 2, 2026April 2, 2026

Have you ever just wanted to play your records anywhere? Not in a club, not in a bedroom, not tethered to a setup that takes twenty minutes to unpack. On…

Bluetooth, USB-C, and a Cassette Deck: Maxell’s New Player Is Quietly Brilliant

Tech NewsMarch 21, 2026March 21, 2026

If you grew up rewinding tapes with a pencil to save the batteries, there’s a decent chance you stopped mid-scroll this week when Maxell quietly posted on Threads to announce…

From Coffee Table to Studio: Musical Beings Launches Tembo on Kickstarter

Tech Tech NewsMarch 16, 2026March 16, 2026

Musical Beings is a startup with an interesting founding premise: that music is something most people feel but struggle to express, and that the problem lies with the instruments rather…

Groovesizer Mynah Is a Six-Voice Sampler You Can Actually Build Yourself

Tech Tech NewsMarch 16, 2026March 16, 2026

Groovesizer has been quietly building a reputation in the DIY music hardware space for some time, and their latest release looks set to add another solid entry to that catalogue….

Thievery Corporation’s Eric Hilton Signature Series Rotary Mixer

Tech Tech NewsFebruary 9, 2026February 9, 2026

When an artist who helped define downtempo and trip-hop turns his full attention to analog sound, the result is not branding—it’s an instrument. This collaboration brings together electronic music pioneer…

HAAi and Weirdcore Collaborate on New Track and Visualizer for Native Instruments’ Absynth 6

Tech NewsJanuary 20, 2026January 20, 2026

London-based digital artist Weirdcore (Aphex Twin, Radiohead/the smile, Charli XCX, Daniel Lopatin) has collaborated with Native Instruments to create the visuals for the newly released Absynth 6 – the legendary…

Native Instruments brings back the cult software Absynth 6 with Brian Eno presets

Tech Tech NewsDecember 12, 2025December 12, 2025

Native Instruments has unveiled Absynth 6, marking the return of a legendary semi-modular synthesizer built for creating textures and soundscapes that evolve and breathe, adding new, otherworldly dimensions to your…

Rewind and Record: DNA Cassettes Offer Solution to Data Storage Crisis

Tech NewsDecember 5, 2025December 5, 2025

Remember cassette tapes? Those beautifully analogue rectangles of magnetic wonder that soundtracked the 80s and 90s, eternally vulnerable to being mangled by your car stereo or requiring emergency pencil surgery…

The first dedicated hardware controller for Serato Studio

Tech NewsDecember 4, 2025December 4, 2025

AlphaTheta, in collaboration with Serato, announces SLAB – the first-ever piece of MIDI hardware specifically designed to control Serato Studio. If you make music with Serato, it’s time to unlock…