Attack Magazine

Attack is an electronic music magazine that offers unbiased news, reviews, and insights about technology, techniques, and creativity in the music scene. Our editorial team, located in London, is made up of individuals with diverse backgrounds. They have rich experience in areas like club promotion, professional audio, DJing, music publishing, and the record industry. What truly unites us is our passion for music. Every piece of content we create is fueled by our love for the art form.

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Korg multi/poly native: Going Deep

1 month ago | attackmagazine.com | Adam Douglas

Korg multi/poly native puts the virtual analog hardware synthesizer in your DAW – but is it powerful enough to hold its own in a crowded market? You may not immediately think of Korg as a software developer. The company has been building hardware synthesizers for more than 50 years, after all. And yet its soft synth side is no joke, with top emulations available for some of its best-loved classics, like the MS-20, Prophecy and microKorg.
Tom Oberheim: “There's A Very Specific Difference Between Engineering And Music Creation”

1 month ago | attackmagazine.com | Adam Douglas

Legendary engineer Tom Oberheim’s synths and drum machines have appeared on countless records, like “Blue Monday” and “Human Nature”. But what does Tom think of them? We sat down with him to find out. Few people have influenced music in the way that Tom Oberheim has. Since he started making effects pedals for Maestro in the late 1960s, and then instruments under his own name, his musical inventions have appeared on songs by Prince, New Order, Michael Jackson, and many more.
What’s Up With Filters? A Practical Guide To Synthesizer Tone Control

2 months ago | attackmagazine.com | Adam Douglas

Ever get stuck wondering which filter to use when making patches? We break synthesizer filters down, from cutoff to key tracking, 2-pole to multimode, bandpass to SEM. Filters are arguably the most important part of a synthesizer for shaping the sound. Watch a few YouTube synth comparison videos and the oscillators all kind of sound the same. A sawtooth is largely a sawtooth with only small differences between manufacturers. But the filter? That makes a big difference.
Beyond Serum: The Ten Best Wavetable Soft Synths You’re Not Using

2 months ago | attackmagazine.com | Adam Douglas

There’s more to music production than just Serum. Elevate your tracks with these 10 next-gen wavetable plugins – including three free ones. There’s no doubt that Serum from Xfer Records is an amazing wavetable soft synth, both in terms of feature set and sound quality. It’s no surprise then that it’s been rinsed so hard, resulting in a lot of songs that all have a similar sound.
The Very Best of NAMM for Electronic Music Producers

Jan 24, 2025 | attackmagazine.com | Adam Douglas

The most drool-worthy synthesizers, drum machines and effects from this year’s NAMM. NAMM 2025 is still underway and we’re already a little overwhelmed. In a good way. Ever since the pandemic, NAMM was feeling a little like its time had come and gone. But this year the annual event has a markedly different vibe. NAMM is back! And so are the exciting new product announcements.
When Is An Arp Not Just An Arp? 3 Modern Arpeggiators To Elevate Your Arp Game

Jan 20, 2025 | attackmagazine.com | Adam Douglas

Modern arpeggiators are complex and powerful and capable of so much more than just cycling through chords. Here’s how to use three of them in techno productions. Arpeggiators have come a long way since they first started showing up in organs and synthesizers in the 1970s. Your grandad’s arpeggiators were primitive indeed. They could cycle through cords in a few different directions (up, down, up/down) in different speeds and note lengths. And that’s it.
10 Key Moments in Music Production History

Jan 14, 2025 | attackmagazine.com | Adam Douglas

Ever wondered how music production got to where it is? Here are ten times that companies took chances on new tech and producers abused it in the name of fresh sounds. The history of music production – and dance music production in particular – is dominated by the arrival of wild, new sounds. The hoovers in early rave music. The TB-303 acid sound. Frequency modulation making bass extra grimey.
Roger Linn - "Asking My Permission Would Be Appreciated"

Jan 12, 2025 | attackmagazine.com | Adam Douglas

LinnDrum designer and musical instrument legend Roger Linn expands on his recent statement on the Behringer LM Drum, his dislike for litigiousness and the future of drum machines. Roger Linn is a legend. As the developer of the LM-1 and LinnDrum, he almost single-handedly invented the modern drum machine, replacing chintzy analog percussion sounds with samples of acoustic drums, and making programmability, quantization and swing commonplace.
The 10 Best Secret Sauce Plugins Of 2024

Dec 23, 2024 | attackmagazine.com | Adam Douglas

Here are our choices for the 10 best secret sauce plugins of 2024, amazing little apps that can turn a blah track into a banger – and four of them are free!We all have secret sauce plugins. You know, those little secret weapons that we pop onto a track to give it some extra oomph. It could be an instrument or an effect, a sonic sweetener or a workflow enhancer. It could be anything really, the important part is that whenever you reach for it, it juices you out of the doldrums and back on track.
10 Of The Most Influential Pieces Of Gear & Software That Shaped Techno

Dec 9, 2024 | attackmagazine.com | Adam Douglas

From the 909 to samplers to Ableton Live, here is the hardware and software that helped shape the sound of techno – in all its many variations. Next year marks an impressive milestone for techno as it approaches 40 years of shaping the music world. If we mark the start of techno with the release of “No UFOs” by Model 500 in 1985, and it’s a topic of debate, then we’re closing in on four decades of techno music.