^{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}
Knowledge Sabre Remix Competition
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.

^{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.