Posts by Lasse Eilers

Deal: Buy an audio interface and get AmpliTube 5 SE for free!

Here's a great way to step up your guitar recording game: Thomann is throwing in IK Multimedia AmpliTube 5 SE for free when you purchase selected audio interfaces – for a limited time only!

Native Instruments and iZotope join forces in a new alliance

Native Instruments and iZotope have announced that they will form a technology alliance. The goal is to cooperate on new products to create "a seamless creative experience".

PreSonus introduces Studio One 5.2 with many new features

PreSonus has updated Studio One to version 5.2. The update brings many improvements, including better handling of articulations and sound variations and new scoring and performance features.

Marantz launches the MPM-4000U USB Podcast Microphone

Marantz Professional has announced the MPM-4000U USB podcast microphone. The condenser mic connects via USB-C to Mac and Windows computers and mobile devices.

Best free plug-ins this week: MGATE-MULTI, Performer Free and MT2

This week, we've got a free multiband gate, a string machine synth for Linux and an emulation of a famous guitar pedal. Here's MGATE-MULTI, Performer Free and MT2.

IK Multimedia Total Studio 3 MAX: IK’s “everything bundle” gets an upgrade

IK Multimedia has updated its massive Total Studio bundle. Total Studio 3 MAX includes no less than 440 GB of sounds and 487 effects for every stage of music production.

Best free plug-ins this week: HUM808, Yoin Reverberator and Rare

Check out these awesome freebies: 808-style sub basses, an experimental reverb and an update for one of the best free Pultec emulations. Here's HUM808, Yoin Reverberator and Rare.

Softube and Empirical Labs team up for some beautiful plug-ins

Softube has teamed up with Empirical Labs to recreate the Mike-E Comp and Lil FrEQ hardware units as plug-ins. And if you're a Console 1 user, you can have it all in one channel strip.

Best free plug-ins this week: HY-ESG, MacPack and Crush

This week's collection of the best free plug-ins features a very cool Euclidian gate sequencer, a bundle of 13 effect plug-ins for Mac and a bit crusher with a few extras.

Focal Clear Mg Professional: A new standard for studio headphones?

Focal has updated its high-end reference headphones. The Clear Mg Professional improves on its predecessor with magnesium cones and an updated design.

Kali Audio introduces the IN-5 active nearfield monitors

Kali Audio has introduced the IN-5 nearfield monitors. With coaxial midrange and HF drivers, the IN-5 features the same concept as the IN-8 in a more compact package.

Best free plug-ins this week: Chorus GAS, HarmonicBoost and BritBundle

This week's collection features a cool 4-voice chorus effect, a harmonic booster and a suite of British-style channel strip plug-ins. Here's Chorus GAS, HarmonicBoost and BritBundle!

Sound Magic Headphone Mix 4 emulates monitor speakers on your headphones

Mixing on headphones can be tricky. Sound Magic Headphone Mix 4 uses a combination of techniques to create the illusion that you're listening to monitor speakers.

Accentize SpectralBalance automatically EQs your speech recordings

Achieving clear, consistent speech recordings can be tricky. Accentize SpectralBalance uses neural networks to adapt the EQ curve in the blink of an eye.

Ableton Live 11 is coming on February 23 – and you can try it now!

Ableton has announced that Live 11 will be released on February 23. But you don't have to wait that long: Join the public beta and try the new version of the DAW for free!

Audeze Euclid: Listen in style with these $1300 closed-back earphones

Audeze has taken its planar driver technology and stuck it into a pair of closed-back earphones. The Audeze Euclid earphones may be expensive, but the tech is impressive.

Leapwing Al Schmitt Signature Plugin: the legendary engineer’s sound in your DAW

Leapwing has teamed up with Al Schmitt to create the Al Schmitt Signature Plugin. Can software bring the engineer's famously natural sound to your DAW?

Vollume Control: a new media manager designed for online collaboration

Tired of losing track of your audio files when collaborating online? Vollume Control is a new media manager app that could make things a lot easier.

Best free plug-ins this week: Flux Mini, Cymbal Killer and Basic Filters

This week's collection of the best free plug-ins includes a versatile modulation tool, a 2-band gate for drum shaping and a modulated filter. Here's Flux Mini, Cymbal Killer and Basic Filters.

Best free plug-ins this week: Tiny Dist, WarmApp and 3x Deluxe

This week’s collection of free plug-ins features a distortion pedal, a one-knob plug-in for adding warmth and a 3-oscillator synth. Here’s Tiny Dist, WarmApp and 3x Deluxe.

Delta Sound Labs Fold: Get creative with wavefolding, distortion and modulation

Delta Sound Labs Fold is a creative distortion plug-in that lets you combine clipping, wavefolding and bit crushing with modulation for all kinds of unique effects.

Get the Plugin Alliance Ampeg SVT-VR Classic plug-in for free!

Plugin Alliance has released the Ampeg SVT-VR Classic bass amp plug-in. And here's great news: During the first month, it's available for free!

NAMM 2021: Alesis introduces new Q series USB keyboard controllers

Alesis has introduced new Q series USB keyboard controllers. The Q49 MKII and Q88 MKII are joined by the Qmini, which looks quite familiar.

NAMM 2021: PreSonus Analog Effects Collection plug-in bundle

PreSonus has released the Analog Effects Collection. The bundle makes five retro-inspired plug-ins from Studio One available in VST3, AU and AAX formats.