November 2015

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This month we’re focusing on the new Surface Book and Surface Pro 4, but we’ve also got Bitwig throwing out a surprise touchy feely update, Imogen Heap offering us a box of tricks and Back at Molten HQ we’ve got a new range of Skylake desktops and laptops. Let’s get to it. Here’s the video version, the text continues beneath: Surface I was there, I was at the Microsoft Windows 10 Devices launch in New York on the 6th October and got the opportunity to handle the new Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book. My SurfaceProAudio blog has been inundated with requests for what IRead More →

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All right – it seems to me that when I make these at the end of the month they almost immediately appear to be out of date – so I’m going to do that weird magazine time travel thing where you’re always a month ahead of yourself. So this is the October edition talking about stuff from September – does that make sense? Anyway just a small handful of choice bits this month. We have the complete surprise of Reaktor 6, even more guitar amp complexity with Amplitube 4, a cool synth from FXPansion, UAD thinking of Windows users and maybe you can help outRead More →

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Windows 10 has been around a while now and has found itself onto a gazillion computers. For the most part the upgrading process has been flawless, the majority of people find that everything works and they can get on with their lives – but it doesn’t work for everybody. Our advice to owners of a Molten audio PC is that you have a very stable, powerful and compatible system, if it’s working well for you then stick with what you have. If you want to upgrade in order to remain current or to feel future facing then your Molten system is well placed to have a flawlessRead More →

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We’re all slightly toasted and sand blasted from our summer camping and traditionally it’s a quiet month in music technology but no, instead we get Windows 10 dropped on us, we get a brand new version of Reaper, we get some cool updates to FL Studio and Reason, we get my Sound On Sound review of Studio One 3, there’s IK Multimedia Sampletank 3 and their custom shop and Native Instruments do something with stems – what’s that about? I dunno but let’s have a look. Here’s the video version, for the text simply skip below: Windows 10 We are currently in the grip ofRead More →