Nugen Audio’s MasterCheck Pro: A new standard?

How loud should your master be? How will the loudness treatment effect your mix? MasterCheck Pro is a metering and quality-simulator plug-in here to help.

Aftertouch brings expressive MIDI and MPE to the iPhone

Aftertouch uses 3D Touch technology in the iPhone 6 and 7 to generate velocity and pressure data for controlling parameters in synthesizers and software. That's very cool.

Samsung buys Harman

The electronics giant today announced that it's buying Harman, owner of many pro audio brands. What will the acquisition mean for companies like AKG, Studer, dbx, JBL and others? Frankly, who the hell knows...

RISE module for Softube Modular gives CV control on ROLI keyboards

If you own a ROLI Seaboard RISE keyboard you can now route the 5 dimensions of touch into Softube's Modular virtual Eurorack via the RISE module.

Stealth Delay plug-in sneaks in from PolygonSheep

Stealth Delay is a clearly laid out and workable plug-in with bonus effects, filtering and modulation that does exactly what it says on the tin. It shouldn't be stealthy, it should be lit with neon lights!

Vick Audio 1861 Tau Fuzz – Civil War Muff with a Russian heritage

Based on those classic, smooth, bass-heavy Big Muff fuzz pedals of the '90s, this new pedal will certainly divide opinions on which is the best Muff!

PUNISH your sounds with Heavyocity’s new plug-in

Not another saturation plug-in I hear you ask? Well, not quite. PUNISH has a lot more on offer, including its own flavour of distortion effects.

New Effect Pedals 2016 Quiz

Fond of your fuzz and passionate about pedals? Find out if you've been paying attention to the hottest effect pedal releases in 2016 with our new quiz!

Behringer DeepMind 12 Desktop? Yes or no.

Uli Behringer has asked the world whether they want a desktop DeepMind 12 - what say you?

Step on The Turd! – Dr No Effects makes a new ‘Shitty’ Fuzz pedal…

Yes, they have scraped the bottom of the barrel with this new limited edition fuzz box...

Electrorganic aFrame: natural percussion of the future

The aFrame is a beautifully hand-crafted instrument with a DSP heart for futuristic percussion performance. Or just slap it about for some interesting sound generation.

Build yourself a miniAtmegatron with Soulby’s 8-bit synth kit

The miniAtmegatron is an Arduino Uno based 8-bit synth that you get to build yourself - the perfect Christmas present for the synth head in your life.

Kemper release Profiler OS 4.2 – with even more new features

Not quite as exciting as the last update, but this OS update gives you a lot of fixes and useful additions for your Kemper Profiling Amp.

Anatron MIDI-controlled analogue filter and overdrive on Kickstarter

A proper analog stereo filter and tube overdrive with full MIDI control in a 19" rack or 500 series unit. Interested? Get in quick for an awesome early bird deal of the Anatron.

‘The Solution’ FX pedalboard system: A new game in town?

Nexi Industries are launching a new guitar effect and pedalboard system called The Solution, and exhort us to "forget conventional notions of what stomp boxes and pedalboards look like".

IK Multimedia iRig Nano Amp sighted on Thomann

A new mini guitar amp for when you need to travel light. Plus you can use it with AmpliTube software package as well!

Bias FX LE free via Plugin Collective

More free stuff is pumped into the marketplace by Focusrite in its "Plugin Collective" guise, this time a 'lite' amps and effects bundle from Positive Grid: Bias FX LE.

Virtuoso Ensembles: The playable orchestra from Kirk Hunter Studios

Virtuoso Ensembles maps sections of instruments across your keyboard for a very customisable and playable orchestra.

Seymour Duncan Hendrix signature pickups: Marketing Voodoo ?

Guitar legend Jimi Hendrix's name carries a lot of weight and can sell just about anything. Will these new signature pickups get you close to the great man's tone? Who knows, frankly.

Korg ARP Odyssey seen with full sized keys

A handful of images on social media reveal a prototype full sized Korg ARP Odyssey plus a Kronos with 88 keys and a Vox Continental with Korg Nutube technology.

Is Adobe Project VoCo Photoshop for audio?

Adobe Project VoCo can edit, replace or add words to recorded dialogue and have it sound flawless. Is this the end of the world as we know it?

FabFilter Teaser Part 2: It’s a reverb plug-in called Pro-R

Last week we reported on a teaser video from FabFilter. Turns out it is a reverb plug-in and part 2 sees Rik Simpson taking a first glimpse of "Pro-R".

Can Klark Teknik’s 1176-KT win the clone wars?

Klark Teknik producing a clone? Something feels amiss. Surely Behringer who own Klark Teknik are abusing the name.

Game Boy transformed into an analog synthesizer with Nanoloop Mono

Dig out your old Nintendo Game Boy and discover some remarkable sounds with the Nanoloop Mono analog synthesizer cartridge.