Dubspot

Rising UK-based electronic music producer and DJ Krystal Klear took a break from a recent US tour to visit Dubspot NYC and talk to us about his early influences, music technology, retro-synths, Manchester’s Hoya:Hoya collective, and much more. The Hoya:Hoya

Check out the first installment of this three-part video tutorial series in which Justin Aswell of Mr. Invisible explores the creative production and performance possibilities of Native Instruments Maschine. In part one, he shows you how to create a track from start to finish using only Maschine!

Dubspot celebrated Make Music New York Festival 2011 with a series of exclusive live performances and DJ sets from NYC’s best kept secret in the field of electronic music production and performance. On the first day of Summer, June 21st,

This week’s excursion into the world of iPad and iPhone apps finds developers getting deeper into the user experience with a refreshing update from NanoStudio, a free portable recorder from Tascam, a collaborative environment in Rockmate, and a loop tool called Loopy.

When the original JazzMutant Lemur was introduced in 2004, it immediately generated a buzz. It was the first controller of it’s kind: A highly customizable touch screen controller with advanced features and multitouch functionality. The concept was simple.

Tired of mass produced gear? Sixty Works’ Dave Cross creates custom hardware MIDI interfaces and offers personalized solutions for performance and production.

In August, dubstep producer, DJ, and Deep Medi Musik recording artist Silkie stopped by Dubspot NYC during his US tour to present a special live streaming workshop. Silkie shared production insights, talked about his creative workflow using the PC-only FL

One of Dubspot’s original instructors, Dj Neil Armstrong, will present the 10 year anniversary of “Original” on 12/14 at Greenhouse in NYC with DJs ?uestlove and Spinna.

Attention audio/visual creators – Dubspot hosted a panel discussion on VJing and live visual performance with three heavyweights of the motion graphics and visual performance world: Benton-C Bainbridge, V Owen Bush and David Lublin.

This week we get outside the box and explore some options for expanding your sonic palette with external hardware effects routed through the aux send and return channels in Ableton Live. You can also apply this technique to most DAWs, including Logic and Reason.