I recently made a decision on a plugin I’m building that I thought worth surfacing as an example, one that shows exactly where issues arise when vibe coding a plugin. A prompt wouldn’t have made it for me and trying to one shot a task without understanding would have most likely missed it completely. I … Read more
The usual way to build a big ambient pad is to stack instruments. A pad synth here, a texture layer there, a vocal sample underneath, maybe a field recording for grit, each on its own track with its own effects. It works, but it gets heavy fast, and it ties your sound to a fixed … Read more
The remix took me the better part of a year. The track everyone actually remembers took an afternoon. This is not me bragging, it’s one of the more useful things I’ve learned about finishing tracks in my twenty years of doing this. The piece I agonised over, picked apart, and rebuilt over and over again … Read more
Multi-band is a word I associate with the back end of a project, not the front. Multi-band compression, multi-band saturation, OTT slapped across the master. It’s a mixing tool: split the signal into frequency ranges and treat each one differently because what works on the sub will destroy the top. So the first thing that … Read more
Marula Music presents “Frequent Flyers”, the new single from label founder Protoculture. Beatport pre-orders are live now, and Spotify pre-saves are open ahead of the full release on 3 July. The track lands first as a Beatport exclusive from 19 June before reaching every platform. The Track “Frequent Flyers” is progressive trance with psychedelic roots, … Read more
When Zebra 3 finally arrived in April, after more than a decade of “it’s coming,” one of the first things I saw in the comments was a complaint: no arpeggiator, no step sequencer. People expected the big rebuild to ship with the one obvious thing, and it didn’t. I get it. I miss the arpeggiator … Read more
The interesting question with any new Arturia V instrument is never “is it an accurate emulation.” They have been good at that for years. The interesting question is whether the software version gives you something the hardware never could, because if it doesn’t, you may as well chase the real thing and live with the … Read more
Zebra 3 officially launched on 20 April 2026. I’ve been part of the sound design team since June last year, after meeting the u-he crew at Superbooth in Berlin. I had my first proper look at what they were building, and walked away thinking: this is going to take people a while to understand, and … Read more
Profetik makes his Marula Music debut with “The Waking”, a dark melodic techno single featuring vocalist Roniit. Out now exclusively on Beatport, with a wide release across all platforms on 8 May 2026. The track opens with restraint. Eastern string motifs establish the atmosphere before the low-end settles in, and Roniit’s spoken word enters close-miked … Read more
So here’s a scenario… I spent about 20 minutes the other day trying to get a pluck to sit over a super saw. The pluck kept getting swallowed. The super saw was wide, long, full of harmonic content — great sound on its own, complete nightmare to mix against anything rhythmic. So I did what … Read more
