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FL Studio 2025: Rumours, release date, and everything we know so far

2 weeks ago | musictech.com | Sam Willings

At 30,000 daily downloads, Image-Line‘s FL Studio is among the most popular Digital Audio Workstations (DAW) on the planet. We’re now on FL Studio 2024, which is named so for the year it was released, with FL Studio 2025 seemingly coming soon. Keen FL Studio users and testers currently have access to the FL Studio 2025 beta and have been trying out a wealth of new features on the DAW.
6 music-making lessons from Skrillex’s new album, ‘F*** U SKRILLEX’

2 weeks ago | musictech.com | Clovis McEvoy

Packing 34 tracks of blistering sonic intensity, F*** U SKRILLEX is a tour de force of the artist’s past, present, and future. The album is also a treasure trove for producers of all stripes – full of practical lessons, inspiring creative approaches, and mind-bending technical finesse. Here are our key takeaways:1. Got a ton of unfinished ideas? Make an album anyway. As creators, we tend to sit on a bunch of tracks we hope will release on an EP or album one day.
SSL 18 brings higher channel counts to Solid State Logic’s interface range

4 weeks ago | musictech.com | Adam Crute

£899, solidstatelogic.comSolid State Logic has been producing affordable USB audio interfaces for the past four-or-so years, its SSL 2, 2+ and 12 bringing a slice of SSL quality and kudos to even the humblest of recording rigs.
Audient’s iD48 goes all-out for channel count and routing flexibility

1 month ago | musictech.com | Adam Crute

£799 / €899 / $999, audient.comRecently, we’ve seen a flurry of flagships being added to popular USB audio interface lines. These interfaces are loaded with additional monitoring and preamp functions, plus higher input/output counts required by producers who want to track a whole band simultaneously or dabble with analogue outboard gear. READ MORE: Native Instruments Traktor Z1 MK2 review: A massive upgrade – but does it go far enough? Focusrite crowned its 4th Gen Scarlett series with the 18i20.
“Perhaps the best tool ever created for producers of soundtracks and ambient music”: Beetlecrab Tempera review

1 month ago | musictech.com | Adam Crute

€670, beetlecrab.audioI get to see so much cool music-making and sound-wrangling gear here at MusicTech that it can feel like I’ve seen it all. Not that I’m jaded, mind you — I’m regularly impressed, often delighted, and occasionally blown away. It’s just that surprises are more rare.
This car company is fitting its entire 2026 range with Dolby Atmos – here’s why

1 month ago | musictech.com | Rachel Roberts

Dolby has teamed up with General Motors to introduce Dolby Atmos across Cadillac’s entire 2026 electric vehicle lineup.
Deadmau5 sells his catalogue for $55 million: “We inherit a legacy that changed music forever”

1 month ago | musictech.com | Emily Swingle

The deal marks the beginning of a joint venture with Create Music Group which will see deadmau5 remastering and re-releasing old work.
Is Teenage Engineering’s EP-133 K.O. II still worth getting in 2025?

1 month ago | musictech.com | Clovis McEvoy

In late 2023, Teenage Engineering, Sweden’s premier vibe merchant and synth maker, found itself in a somewhat jarring position. Its much-anticipated portable polyphonic sampler, the EP-133 K.O. II, had just entered the ring and was a smash hit. Simultaneously, the company was getting pummelled over ‘fadergate’ – a host of build quality issues that incensed the devoted user base. We’re now a year or so down the road.
Teenage Engineering’s EP-1320 Medieval review: Fan service or folly?

1 month ago | musictech.com | Clovis McEvoy

£299 / $299 / €349, teenage.engineeringAn office joke? A dare? It’s impossible to know just where the idea for the EP-1320 Medieval came from, but it’s here, and it’s weird. After the smashing success of the original EP133 K.O. II, anticipation was riding high for the next entry in the EP line.
Production tips: Exploring digital distortion and mimicking retro samplers

1 month ago | musictech.com | Adam Crute

Hardware samplers of the mid-80s and 90s are utterly outclassed by modern software samplers, but there are still producers who use them religiously. Workflow is a factor, but this feeds into a more fundamental attraction: The sound.