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Websites are now speculating that both the iPhone 5 and iOS 5 will launch in early October so we rounded up the latest information on iOS 5 as it relates to you – the music producer. We find a few things that have us excited including new built in Audio Units such as reverb, adjustable equalization, time compression and time stretching.

Propellerhead Software has announced the forthcoming Reason 6. For this update Propellerhead has now consolidated all of the features of Record and Reason together. Reason was originally designed as a replacement for your hardware instruments, ie, synths, samplers, drum machines, fx, etc.

On Tuesday September 20th Create Digital Music’s Peter Kirn will join Reactable creator Martin Kaltenbrunner to present a live webcast featuring a demo of Reactable Live and a discussion on music creation tools.

In this new video tutorial, Dubspot Ableton Live Curriculum Designer Professor Nalepa explains and demonstrates a great technique to create real-time stutter gated vocal effects where you can adjust the rate of the gate on the fly. You can use this live on vocals or other instruments, but it also works great in the studio.

The cooking metaphor is seared deep into Captain Planet’s worldly persona, with gumbo and it’s all-encompassing nature being the main point of reference. He has firm roots in the crate digging and sampling tradition, and combines these obscure, global finds with a love for contemporary artists working in current genres.

Dubspot spent Labor Day weekend at New York City’s massive electronic music festival Electric Zoo at Randall’s Island. We caught up with some of the DJs and performers, including Gabriel & Dresden, John Digweed, Alesso, Beardyman, Alesso, among many others.

In this video, we look at the Rolodecks effect unit from Twisted Tools. This fantastic ensemble is a wonderful example of just how advanced Reaktor can be. Practically building the effect unit from scratch, Twisted Tools was able to create a sophisticated multi-effect unit inside of Reaktor that is simply effective and easy to use.

For this episode of Dubspot’s Wireless interview series, Dubspot instructor Raz Mesinai (a.k.a. Badawi) talks with New York producer FaltyDL (a.k.a. Drew Lustman) about his history as a flutist and upright bass player, as well as his use of Propellerhead’s Reason.

NextAid and Solar Sister are two innovative organizations focusing on elevating opportunity for girls and women in East Africa. They’ve come together to present ILLUMINATE, an energetic dance party and fundraiser that will bring together renowned New York DJs, musicians, and poets

We sit down with Mike Monday, prolific producer of hundreds of dance music singles, to discuss workflow, productivity and his new passion of coaching creative people on how to succeed.