Music Tech
02 Sep 2010
Korg Announces microKEY
Korg has announced a slim, lightweight USB-powered keyboard aimed at the compact, mess-free modern recording studio.
01 Sep 2010
The Future of DJing: Prototype Technology
Take a look through a touch-screen window into what could be the future of DJing...
25 Aug 2010
Propellerhead Release Reason 5
Propellerhead Software have just released the biggest overhaul to its Record - Reason application family. Find out what's new...
24 Aug 2010
Free Samples: Davide Carbone
Davide Carbone recently released s:amplify, the follow-up to 2007's Drum & Bass Masterclass sample CD. We got Davide to tell us about it and we also have ten free samples for you.
17 Aug 2010
Native Instruments Reveal Traktor Kontrol S4
Native Instruments have just announced Traktor Kontrol S4, an integrated DJ system with state-of-the-art performance capabilities and intuitive tactile control.
12 Aug 2010
Loopmasters DJ Mix Tools
Producers will already know Loopmasters for their sample packs but they're now expanding into the DJ market by launching a new series called DJ Mixtools.
10 Aug 2010
touchAble iPad Ableton Controller
House producers Sylvain Garcia and Christian Blomert recently unveiled touchAble, an app that turns your iPad into a multi-touch Ableton Live controller. Get the full specs inside...
04 Aug 2010
BPM 2010 Dates Announced
BPM is Europe's biggest event dedicated to DJing, electronic music production and club culture. Find out when and where this year's event is taking place...
29 Jul 2010
Native Instruments Announce Komplete 7
Native Instruments have announced Komplete 7, an expanded version of its studio-standard software bundle. It now combines 24 instruments & effects with over 10,000 sounds & 90 GB of samples.
22 Jul 2010
In The Studio: Alex Smoke
Alex Smoke mainly produces techno and electronica but has ventured into classical composition recently. He's also just created a sample pack so we quizzed him on how he makes music...
15 Jul 2010
Jungle Veterans Sample Pack
Future Loops have just released a sample pack dedicated to the classic 90s jungle sound that elevated drum programming to an art form.
08 Jul 2010
In The Studio: DJ Distance
Future Loops have just released a sample pack created by dubstep producer, DJ and Chestplate label founder Distance. Get Distance's essential studio tips and tricks right here...
18 Jun 2010
Griid iPad App
Griid is a modular touch control system for Ableton Live and iPad that ensures that you're able to find and fire any clip at any time without missing a beat.
16 Jun 2010
TC-Helicon VoiceLive Touch
TC-Helicon's VoiceLive Touch is a new 'go anywhere' vocal processor that delivers quality vocal effects and loops.
14 Jun 2010
Public Records Launch
Public Records is a new record label set up for the specific purpose of providing talented and undiscovered artists with an effective platform to launch their careers.
11 Jun 2010
Ten Ways To Make A DnB Bass Line
In this guide for producers we explain ten different ways to get a killer bass line.
09 Jun 2010
Nine DJing / Music Making iPad Apps
Is Apple's iPad going to change the way we DJ and make music? Maybe not right now but here are some examples that show potential for the future...
08 Jun 2010
Sample Logic - Acoustix
Acoustix is a new toolkit of morphed acoustic instruments, percussives, atmospheric soundscapes, pads and tempo-synced audio loops for cinematic music production using Abelton Live.
07 Jun 2010
Dark Matter - Experiments In Dubstep
Download ten free samples created by Ginz, Pinch, Moving Ninja and Skinnz from the Multiverse dubstep studio / collective.
02 Jun 2010
Toontrack Beatstation
Toontrack's BeatStation marks the next step in powerful yet simple sound design and music production.
01 Jun 2010
Producer Loops Dubstep Constructions 2
Producer Loops have just released a second volume of their popular Dubstep Constructions sample pack series and we have details of where you can download one entire construction kit for free.
27 May 2010
Roger Linn's LinnStrument
Roger Linn created the drum machine as we know it today and his latest invention is an instrument with a multi-touch surface a bit like an iPad.
26 May 2010
XILS 3 LE Soft Synth
XILS-lab have just released a budget price version of its XILS 3 soft synth plug-in.
25 May 2010
Sabre Remix Competition Free Downloads
Last week we announced the winner and runners-up of our Sabre Remix Competition and you can now download all the tracks for free!
20 May 2010
How To Make Dubstep In Cubase
Leading music technology training website Sonic Academy have launched a new video tutorial series showing you how to make dubstep.
19 May 2010
Kmag Sabre Remix Competition Winner
Recently we held a remix competition to remix an exclusive Sabre track. After much debate between the judges we can now reveal the winner...
18 May 2010
Untold Dubstep Producer Sample Pack
Loopmasters continue their Artist Series sample packs with Dubstep Producer from Untold. We have all the details plus ten free samples from it for you to download.
11 May 2010
Bootsy Collins Funk University
Funk legend Bootsy Collins is launching an online bass guitar school in June. Get all the details here...
22 Apr 2010
Native Instruments Release MASCHINE 1.5
Native Instruments have just released MASCHINE 1.5, a free update that increases the functionality and creative potential of the acclaimed computer-based music production system.
21 Apr 2010
Dark Atmospheres & SFX 02 Sample Pack
Dark Atmospheres & SFX 02 is a new sample pack from Bluezone featuring over 300 MB of atmospheres, pads, textures, layers, soundscapes, orchestral drum hits and sound effects.
16 Apr 2010
NI Paranormal Spectrums
Native Instruments recently launched a new Kore-powered instrument called Paranormal Spectrums that creates mysterious and unsettling sonic atmospheres.
12 Apr 2010
Sontronics Saturn Microphone
Sontronics have just launched Saturn, a new multi-pattern condenser mic.
08 Apr 2010
Audiotool 1.0 Firestarter
Audiotool is a new free web-based application that allows you to make music in your browser.
07 Apr 2010
Panic Girl Remix Competition
Remix Panic Girl's Midnight and win a release on a digital EP alongside artists like dBridge, Phace and Duo Infernale.
06 Apr 2010
Free Samples: Ray Keith
Get the original samples Ray Keith used during the golden era of jungle music direct from his hard drive, the same ones used in the creation of Terrorist.
29 Mar 2010
Knowledge Sabre Remix Competition
Sabre, Critical Music and Kmag have joined forces for a remix competition. Download the free parts to a Sabre track, remix it and win £1000 of Addict clothing & a SoundCloud Pro Plus account!
25 Mar 2010
Baobinga & ID Remix Competition
Baobinga & ID are giving away the parts to four tracks from their Bass Music Sessions album for free and the best remixes they receive will be released on an EP.
23 Mar 2010
Download 20 Free DnB/Dubstep Samples
We've got a treat for you today, 20 free samples from the Loopmasters vaults.
20 Mar 2010
Adam Audio Upgrade A-Series Monitors
Noisia's favourite speakers get a redesign, with a new X-ART tweeter and woofer.
18 Mar 2010
Allen & Heath Launch New Headphones
Allen & Heath are launching another addition to the Xone DJ range, the XD-40 monitoring headphones.
17 Mar 2010
Hard To Find Launches Music Tech Store
Pro audio retailer Hard To Find is opening its first music technology store in Birmingham on April 10th.
16 Mar 2010
2999 Competition
Peppermill Records are running a competition for bass savvy music producers to soundtrack a painting by celebrated futurist David Schleinkofer.
10 Mar 2010
Preview: Pioneer DJM-2000 Mixer
The art of DJing is now in the digital age, and the next generation of DJ mixers needs to keep pace with the CDJ revolution. Cue Pioneer's new DJM-2000...
10 Mar 2010
Free Samples: Drumsound & Bassline Smith
Get yourself five free samples from Drumsound & Bassline Smith's Drum and Bass Studio Technique sample CD.
09 Mar 2010
Kmag Sabre Remix Competition Preview
Sabre has just written a new track specially for our forthcoming remix competition. Download it here for free and get all the details on the comp...
02 Mar 2010
Free Samples: Full Cycle
Download five free samples from Loopmasters' Full Cycle Artist Samplepack produced by long time Full Cycle producer / engineer, D Product, and Reprazent's drummer, UV Ray.
25 Feb 2010
AmpliTube III shipping
One of the best distortion plug-ins around has just received a major update, and it's available to buy ... now.
25 Feb 2010
The Ultimate Reason Upgrade?
Propellerheads recently launched recording software called Record that can also be used with Reason. They're billing it as the ultimate Reason upgrade, so what's it all about?
24 Feb 2010
Ableton At Bloc Weekend Festival
Ableton will be at this year's Bloc weekend festival at the Butlins Minehead Resort, March 12 - 14. They're hosting the Saturday events in the Fenchurch Dome from 1pm-5pm.
24 Feb 2010
Acoustic Toy Museum
Utterly insane and essential mega-gig sample library of classic and impossible-to-find kids toys goes on general sale, perfect for spooky electronica.
23 Feb 2010
Free Samples: Voyager
Download free samples made exclusively for Kmag by one of the pioneers of "intelligent drum & bass" with a production history on Propa Talent, R&S, Good Looking, DSCI4, Moving Shadow & Creative Source.
18 Feb 2010
Free Samples: Zed Bias
Download five free samples from Zed Bias' Deadly Dub Constructor sample CD on Loopmasters.
15 Feb 2010
Sonic Academy Relaunches
Leading music technology training website Sonic Academy recently unveiled a new site brimming with new features, extra sections and subscriber options.
14 Feb 2010
Traktor Kontrol X1 In Stores Now
Check out the latest DJ controller hardware from the mighty Native Instruments stable.
14 Feb 2010
New Sennheiser Bluetooth Headphones
Check out Sennheiser's beautiful, new cable-less headphones, looking like a prop from The Matrix movie.
14 Feb 2010
matter London Installs Custom Mixer
London's most expensive club has just got a new mixer, and it's custom baby. Find out what brand it is inside.
11 Feb 2010
Free Samples: Liquid Drum & Bass
Liquid Drum & Bass is a new title from dance sample library favourites Producer Loops. Check it out and download five free samples from the pack for free...
05 Feb 2010
Free Samples: Danny Byrd
Download five free samples from Danny Byrd's Drum and Bass Vol2 - Artist Samplepack.
03 Feb 2010
Ableton & Akai Announce APC20
Teaming up with hardware legends Akai, Ableton have announced a brand new hardware controller with pads, pots and faders on the surface.
02 Feb 2010
New TC Electronic Audio Interface
The developers who brought you the popular PowerCore hardware have just released a new audio interface for 2010, called the Impact Twin.
02 Feb 2010
Essential Software: Omnisphere
A year since it was released, Spectrasonics' Omnisphere has become essential studio software. We take a look at this modern classic's path to the heavens.
01 Feb 2010
Loopmasters Mad Professor Samples
The dub legend that is Mad Professor has a new sample-pack released today under the Loopmasters brand.
28 Jan 2010
Apple iPad: Flop Or Hot?
The hype reached a climax today as Apple officially unveiled their latest hardware - a laptop/iPhone hybrid - and Knowledge has something to say about it.
27 Jan 2010
5 Ways To Make A Killer Bass Line
In this beginner's guide aimed at listeners and fans as well as producers, we explain five different ways to get a killer bass line.
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27 Jan 2010
Akai Launch iPhone Synth/Sequencer
Akai, the company famed for its hardware samplers of the 1990s and of course its ubiquitous MPC samplers, have released a high-tech iPhone music-production application.
25 Jan 2010
iTunes Cloud Technology
The much talked-about "cloud technology" is coming to iTunes, apparently.
22 Jan 2010
Video: Ableton The Bridge
Ableton has announced some hardware aiming to combine the arts of production and DJing into one unifying force, that is being billed as a music-tech revolution.
21 Jan 2010
Product Announcement: Ortofon S-120
Check out the new digital DJ cartridge from Ortofon.
20 Jan 2010
200 New Sounds From The Creator Of Massive
Dubstep, wonky and future garage.
20 Jan 2010
500,000+ Downloads For iPhone GrooveMaker
Discover details on IK Multimedia's music production software for Apple's iPhone.
19 Jan 2010
Krafty Kuts DJ Tools iPhone App
Getting bored of the same old drop? Are the Allen & Heath filters getting repetitive? Or do you just fancy a vocal hype injection to liven up your set? Well, Krafty Kuts has the remedy, all at the touch of a screen.
12 Jan 2010
Logic 9.1 Is Out
Check out the new features in an incremental update to Apple's flagship music-production sequencer inside.
04 Jan 2010
Free Samples: Technique
Technique Recordings is ten years old. Coming into 2010, the label owners made some exclusive audio samples to celebrate the occasion, for you to download after the jump.
23 Dec 2009
Knowledge Remix Competition Winner
Recently we held a remix competition with Shogun Audio and Fenchurch Clothing. After much deliberation between the judges we can now reveal the winner...
09 Dec 2009
Free Samples: Resonant Vibes
Resonant Vibes is a community dedicated to sharing quality dance music downloads and they've given us 30MB worth of free samples from their SoundTheory 01 title for you to download...
09 Dec 2009
Knowledge's Top 10 Drum & Bass Samples
The ten most widely used samples in drum & bass, opened, sliced and laid bare...
07 Dec 2009
Feature: Matrix On Remixing
Matrix on what it takes to make a successful remix...
02 Dec 2009
Review: Sample Magic Dubstep & Grime
Take a look inside a new sample pack by Sample Magic, complete with audio examples.
30 Nov 2009
Free Samples: Stakka
Stakka on his approach to producing music plus 28MB of free samples from his Stakka's D&B Plates sample library pack.
27 Nov 2009
In The Studio: High Contrast
Knowledge takes a peek into the studio of Hospital Records' hottest talent, and sees that by keeping it simple High Contrast has managed to stay at the forefront of the drum and bass scene.
27 Nov 2009
Absynth 6, FM9, Massive 2 and Reaktor 6?
It looks like Native Instruments are about to upgrade some, if not all, of their biggest-selling virtual instruments.
26 Nov 2009
Feature: What Makes A Great Sample?
From James Brown to The Matrix to the Amen Break, we examine why some samples are just so pleasing to the ear.
25 Nov 2009
Adam Audio Release New Studio Monitors
Adam Audio stakes a claim for producing the best studio monitors in the world, by updating their critically acclaimed S range.
23 Nov 2009
A&H Launch Xone:DX
Yet another next-gen DJ controller hits stores, this time developed by Allen & Heath and tailored for Serato's Itch software.
23 Nov 2009
Knowledge Icicle Remix Competition
DJ Friction's Shogun Audio label and Knowledge Magazine have joined forces for an exclusive remix competition. Download the free parts to an Icicle track, remix it and win £1000 of Fenchurch clothing!
19 Nov 2009
Review: NI Maschine
Knowledge shows you what's inside the Maschine box, reviews this essential piece of new studio kit and explains how you can win one in our exclusive competition...
17 Nov 2009
Sampling Season: Sample This!
Knowledge illustrates a bite-size history of the technique that changed the face of modern music production forever - sampling - from a 2009 viewpoint.
30 Oct 2009
Free Samples: Davide Carbone
Davide Carbone knows a thing or two about producing music & samples having been behind the Drum & Bass Masterclass sample CD. He's produced 5 new samples for us, download them here!
20 Oct 2009
Holophone 5.1 Surround Microphone
Sennheiser releases a new surround-sound microphone to help capture the experience of "really being there".
08 Oct 2009
Sample CD: Pure Drum And Bass
What constitutes "pure" drum and bass? Find out, in our review of one of Loopmasters myriad sample CDs.
07 Oct 2009
Video: Ableton Launchpad
Novation and Ableton have released a hardware controller for music production and DJ performance. Never considered using Ableton Live for DnB? After this video, you're going to change your mind.
04 Oct 2009
Kontakt Instrument Balinese Gamelan
This is the latest, and a somewhat exotic, addition to the ongoing NI "Discovery Series" - basically a load of samples for your Kontakt 5 software sampler, that can also be used in standalone.
23 Sep 2009
Rane SL3 Review
Kmag tries out the SL3, the latest DJ interface from Rane. It's the equipment that supports the Serato Scratch Live software and allows DJs to play MP3s as if they were records.
17 Sep 2009
Video: Pioneer CDJ-2000
The industry standard CD deck has just received a major technical overhaul for 2009. Say hello to the Pioneer CDJ-2000. Full video preview inside.
17 Sep 2009
Exile Creates New NI Plug-In
Tim Exile of Warp Records has released one of his powerful, personal experiments as an audio instrument under the Native Instruments brand.
02 Sep 2009
NI release Absynth 4, Guitar Rig 4, Kontakt 4
Yup - shitloads of next-generation Godly goodness for your DAWs.
09 Aug 2009
Apple releases Logic Pro 9
Just shy of two years after Apple released Logic Pro 8, Logic Pro 9 has arrived inside the Logic Studio bundle, bringing with it versatile time-stretching tools to bring it up to speed with Cubase and Ableton.
05 Jul 2009
Video: NI Traktor Scratch interface
Smaller than a pack of cards, say hello to Native Instruments' new, compact audio interface for digital DJs.
