Equipment News, Leaks and Tips
PRS John Mayer Signature Silver Sky model leaked!
26 Feb 2018 · A certain PRS guitar dealer has leaked details of the new PRS John Mayer 'Silver Sky' signature model ahead of its official release! And this guitar certainly is a looker.
KiloHearts sets free a mighty useful 3-band EQ plug-in
25 Feb 2018 · 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
24 Feb 2018 · 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.
Play the Native Instruments Electric Sunburst while Gibson burns
23 Feb 2018 · The timing of NIs precisely sampled homage to the Les Paul couldn't have been better considering the dire straits Gibson is in. Electric Sunburst has a remarkably realistic engine of picking, strumming and ...
Cakewalk rescued by BandLab in Gibson fire sale
23 Feb 2018 · Cakewalk unexpected rises from the ashes as Singapore based collective BandLab Technologies snaps it up from Gibsons fire sale of assets and intellectual properties.
TSNM: Touch Sensing Note Memory for getting touchy-feely with your Eurorack
22 Feb 2018 · Doboz has finished the Eurorack version of the TSNM controller that offers note and pressure action, arpeggiation and sequencing in a very neat and affordable package. Get your fingers in there!
Fancy a big fat portable Moog Synthesizer IIIp?
21 Feb 2018 · 50 years since the last one Moog are once again building the Moog Synthesizer IIIc portable, 3 cabinet synth of the gods. They are only making 40, so step up with your $35,000 quick!
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.