Posts by Lyubomir Dobrev

Softube Weiss MM-1 and DS1-MK3 mastering processors: serious audio polishing!

Softube launched a pair of compelling mastering tools, both recreations of coveted digital hardware processors. These are the Weiss MM-1 Mastering Maximizer and the Weiss DS-1 MK3. Read more about them here!

Could Softubе Console 1 become the ultimate Steinberg Cubase 9.5 Pro controller?

Softube has announced its Console 1 hardware and software combo will integrate better with Cubase Pro 9.5 via a free upgrade; users will be able to control different functionality from the controller.

Spitfire Audio will set free its Labs sample libraries, Kontakt no longer required

Spitfire Audio announced its Labs sample libraries are going free in the near future. Formerly Kontakt-only, they will be breaking free of the Native Instruments sampler with the addition of a custom plug-in.

W.A. Production SphereDelay plug-in available now at GBP 7 introductory price

W.A. Production has a brand-new delay plug-in called SphereDelay, with a streamlined feature set, sleek GUI and a nice introductory price of only 7 GBP - frankly, that's a steal.

Uphoria & TrackGod 2 – meet your new trap and hip-hop rompler lords

Trap and hip hop producers can choose from a huge variety of sounds, plug-ins, and romplers - recently the market has seen two new additions in the form of, Uphoria and TrackGod 2.

KiloHearts sets free a mighty useful 3-band EQ plug-in

Kilohearts make this free, simple but useful 3-Band EQ available. Featuring an intuitive user interface, 3-Band EQ lets you shape sound by splitting and dragging frequencies around.

Soundspot presents Axis multi-band processor, makes it ridiculously cheap

Soundspot presented an interesting plug-in for everyone wishing to get their audio's dynamics under control. It's the Axis, a combination of the developer's MSW1 and Propane plug-ins with an added compressor.

Acustica Audio Azure: a tube mastering EQ for modern times

Analog-obsessed plug-in developer Acustica Audio has a new release! Geared towards mastering engineers, Azure is an exact digital recreation of a hand-made passive tube equalizer.

Hear360 8ball omni-binaural microphone goes on sale for 2500 USD

Over a year after its announcement, the 8ball microphone from Hear360 is finally launching. The 2500 EUR multi-channel recording tool has eight capsules (all in all) on the left and right.

Best free plug-ins this week: Bakuage, Sennheiser AMBEO, SampleScience Player

We are covering the nicest free plug-ins that show up each week. This time, we have three really good tools - plug-ins by Bakuage, a binaural panner from Sennheiser, and a big-boy ROMpler from SampleScience!

Yamaha announces new MG10XUF & MG12XUK compact mixers

Yamaha has a pair of new compact mixers on the line, the Yamaha MG10XUF and MG12XUK. They are based on the third-generation XU models of the company's MG-series, but offer different controllers.

Universal Audio updates UAD to version 9.5 with Helios 69 EQ and Preamp

Universal Audio have released a new update to its UAD software, with new goodies for 9.5 including an emulation of the Helios 9.5 preamp and EQ, Friedman's Buxom Betty amp and the A/DA flanger.

Krotos is coming in guns blazing with Weaponiser, a hot shot sound design tool

Krotos' upcoming tool looks interesting and capable. It's focused on weapon sounds, with a library of SFX organized by gun type and firing mode. The sounds can be edited in great detail!

Time-stretch any sound into oblivion with PaulXStretch!

If you want to do some seriously mean time-stretching with your audio - we are talking stretching a 3-minute song into a 10-hour ambient masterpiece, for example - you are going to love this one!

Olympus’ new LS-P4 looks like a great portable recorder for the money

Olympus introduced a new portable recorder, the LS-P4. Up to par with competing offerings from Roland and ZOOM, the LS-P4 records audio in 24-bit, 96kHz lossless .FLAC format.

Golden Age PRE-73 Premier and PREQ-73 Premier 1073-style preamps are coming

Golden Age is introducing Premier versions of its affordable Neve 1073-style preamps, the PRE-73 and PREQ-73 Premier. Priced reasonably and built with high-quality components, these could eat up the market!

Get those 50s and 60s vibes going with Audiority’s Tube Modulator plug-in

Audiority has released a really cool-looking vintage modulator and tremolo effect called Tube Modulator. It emulates several tremolo, vibrato, and spatial positioning effects, starting with a late '50s unit.

Free plug-ins this week: A mic sim, a saturator, a distortion and two synths!

After a brief hiatus, we're back with coverage of the best free plug-ins that popped up throughout the week. We have a whopping five of them to present and we think they will make a fine addition to your ...

DDMF Plugin Analyzer tells you what your plug-ins are doing to your audio

Plugindoctor is an analyzer for VST and AU plug-ins that comes recommended for plug-in developers who want to test their creations or users who want to understand exactly what a plug-in is doing to their audio.

Output’s new Analog Brass & Winds instrument: “Next level air”?

We're pretty sure Output's new baby is capable of some bad-ass sounds in the right hands. Remember Nine Inch Nails' Capital G? Yeah, that's what distorted brass can sound like!

OkaiR2R: a 1965 Akai tape recorder inside your DAW

Evil Turtle Productions (don't you just love the name?) released a plug-in, OkaiR2R, that emulates the preamp section of the Akai X-100D reel-to-reel recorder. This is a 4-speed, 3-head unit way back from ...

Can UVI Meteor make an impact on the modern rompler market?

Meteor is designed to bring the most content to producers and sound designers involved in film, games, music production and anything else in need of a variety of moods and timbres.

Fredenstein F610: a bad-ass 500-series EQ with a big ol’ touchscreen

Fredenstein announced a badass-looking equalizer in 500-series rack format - the F610 Universal Entzerrer UE-1. Yeah, it's named like a piece of lab equipment and it very much looks like one!

Audio Damage is ready with Discord 4, a souped-up stereo pitch shifter

The most visible change in Discord 4 is the all-new vector-based and resizable interface that makes it easier to get around the plug-in's many features. Of course, pitch shifting is still the prime directive...