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Acustica Audio Azure: a tube mastering EQ for modern times
21 Feb 2018 · 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.
CircleFade CF12 vintage Hi-Fi inspired MIDI controller
20 Feb 2018 · A new Kickstarter from Paris based CircleFade brings a boutique, vintage styled USB MIDI controller with 12 sharp and precise aluminium knobs. Is it too posh for your desk?
Talk of a Gibson bankruptcy in 2018 intensifies
19 Feb 2018 · Talk of a Gibson bankruptcy has intensified recently, with some now expecting the US guitar maker to part ways with its current CEO and owner Henry Juskiewicz in 2018. Here's the story so far...
Flat pack musical products coming from IKEA and Teenage Engineering
19 Feb 2018 · Electronic music design and home design collide in a potentially interesting collaboration between fellow Swedes IKEA and Teenage Engineering. The FREKVENS collection coming to stores in about a year.
Ritual: A droning, echoing, atmospheric synthesizer from another time
19 Feb 2018 · Beautifully handcrafted Ritual synthesizer from Resonance Circuits with a playful, if slightly disturbing, front panel is a unique sound generating, noise making, drone enthusing atmospheric device.
Hear360 8ball omni-binaural microphone goes on sale for 2500 USD
18 Feb 2018 · 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
17 Feb 2018 · 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!
Behringer asks if you’d like an OB-Xa clone as a desktop or keyboard
16 Feb 2018 · While Uli Behringer asks whether you'd like your OB-Xa clone with or without a keyboard, I wonder how long it will be until we can design our own synth in their online store?
Yamaha announces new MG10XUF & MG12XUK compact mixers
15 Feb 2018 · 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.
SPINK0: Ableton Link for Eurorack is almost a reality
14 Feb 2018 · The Pink-0 open source project investigated how to put Ableton Link sync technology into a Eurorack module. Seismic Industries appeared to have cracked it with SPINK0 and now I can sync my laptop to my modular!
Universal Audio updates UAD to version 9.5 with Helios 69 EQ and Preamp
14 Feb 2018 · 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.
Elektron’s Overbridge DAW integration app delayed again
14 Feb 2018 · 9 months since the release of the Digitakt and there's still no Overbridge. Elektron put back the release date for a second time and ask for our patience as they try to get their awesome integration to work.
Krotos is coming in guns blazing with Weaponiser, a hot shot sound design tool
14 Feb 2018 · 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!
14 Feb 2018 · 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
13 Feb 2018 · 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.
TEM Mini monophonic synthesizer inspired by the Minimoog
13 Feb 2018 · In light of the Behringer Model D is there still room for a boutique analogue synthesizer based upon the Minimoog? ADSR seem to think so and offer up the TEM Mini for your consideration.
TouchPad: groovy programmable shortcut and macro controller
12 Feb 2018 · Navigate your DAW like a boss with this palm-sized programmable keyboard shortcut and macro controller. TouchPad has 36 keys for up to 5 commands per key for super fast audio editing.
Behringer VC340 Vocoder Plus spotted in the wild
12 Feb 2018 · A prototype Behringer VC340 Vocoder Plus was spotted languishing in the studio of Facebook user Firechild. Now with a video demonstrating the awesome heart of this nonsense instrument.
Golden Age PRE-73 Premier and PREQ-73 Premier 1073-style preamps are coming
12 Feb 2018 · 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
12 Feb 2018 · 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!
11 Feb 2018 · 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 ...
Gibson Modern Flying V boldly goes where no guitar has gone before
11 Feb 2018 · Finally! The full details of the Gibson Modern Flying V are now official - this guitar first beamed onto the Earth's surface at this year's CES. Make it so!