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1 week ago | attackmagazine.com | Adam Douglas

Energy Floors and TownRock Energy are redefining how we think about energy and heat generation at clubs by capturing it from the punters themselves. There’s a growing awareness that we need to do more environmentally when it comes to parties. It’s not enough to just take public transportation to the event and recycle your bottles at the venue. Case in point: Massive Attack’s recent ACT 1.5 event set a new record as the cleanest and greenest festival ever held.

3 weeks ago | attackmagazine.com | Adam Douglas

Headphones manufacturer Sennheiser is the latest company to get busted for price fixing. What is it and how does it keep price tags artificially high? Tariffs aren’t the only things driving up prices for consumers. Another factor is price fixing. Although illegal, it’s surprisingly common, with headphone giant Sennheiser only the latest in a long line of famous manufacturers to get pinched for artificially inflating product prices.

2 months 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.

2 months 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.

Feb 17, 2025 | 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.