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Is Selling Samples a Viable Career?
Whether you're a home studio team or a multi-million dollar company, there's big business to be had in selling original samples. We talked to 3 different outlets about how they make it work. → Read More
Interview: Juana Molina on '80s Synths, David Byrne, and Her Writing Process
The Argentinian artist sums up her approach to making music: "When I disappear and my mind is gone ... that’s when I know something is good and real." → Read More
Get The Drum Sounds Of Chess Records
Driving rhythms and shuffles were a main ingredient of Chicago's electric blues. Get one-shots and loops that emulate classic Chess Records beats in this sample pack. → Read More
Ableton Loop 2018 Highlights: Making Music in the Modern World
This weekend, Reverb was on hand at Ableton's Loop conference, held in Los Angeles. → Read More
How to Choose the Right Plugin in a Crowded Market
Locate the signal through the noise in the vast and fascinating world of digital music software. → Read More
Get the Drum Sounds of FAME Studios
We've compiled one-hits and loops that emulate the drum kits, rooms, recording practices, and mixing techniques that drove the Muscle Shoals sound. → Read More
Modded Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer Sample Pack
We recorded more than 200 samples from a one-of-a-kind drum machine formerly owned by Chicago house legend DJ Deeon. → Read More
Video: A Brief History of the Drum Machine
How an add-on contraption came to define popular music. → Read More
Recreating Dmitri Shostakovich’s “Piano Concerto No. 2” With Music Software
We used orchestral libraries and plugins to reimagine this soaring, hopeful piano concerto by the legendary 20th century composer. → Read More
Get the Drums Sounds of Stax Records
We've compiled one-hits and loops that emulate the drum kits, rooms, recording practices, and mixing techniques that drove the Stax sound. → Read More
Recreating Claude Debussy's “La Mer” Using Music Software
We've remade Debussy's Impressionist masterpiece with string collections from Best Service, Project SAM, and Spitfire, treated with Eventide's UltraReverb. → Read More
The Syntronik J-60 Soft Synth
Buy any hardware synth from a seller that accepts Reverb Payments this month, and get this great software emulation of a Juno-60 for free. → Read More
Alexander Burke on Taking Direction from Non-Musicians
When David Lynch says, "Sound like a 14-year-old girl in love ... but the idea of heartbreak exists in the ether," what do you play? → Read More
Recreating Bernard Herrmann's Score from Hitchcock's “Psycho” Using Music Software
Check out the exclusive "Psycho" demo and download the sessions and presets we used to recreate it. → Read More
Claude Young’s Detroit Sound Science Sample Series
Get the first Cinematic Synths sample pack and enter to win Bitwig Studio 2, a Nektar 61-key controller, and our entire sample series. → Read More
Hexachords' Richard Portelli on the Orb Composer AI Music Software
Full orchestrations with just a few clicks—is this the future of music-making? → Read More
Tim K on the Essential Skill Sets of a Media Composer
The producer shares how he lives in the dual worlds of pop and film music. → Read More
iZotope VocalSynth 2 | Reverb Software Pick With Penelope Antena
Listen to a haunting demo and learn how to create a similar track with the new plugin. → Read More
The Best Music Software Deals on Reverb Right Now
A roundup of all the latest and greatest deals on plugins, soft synths, and more. → Read More
Eventide Updates Its Blackhole Reverb Plugin
Get 66% off this unconstrained reverb effect through May 31. → Read More