In a case filled in the late 90s, the European Court of Justice ruled in favor of Kraftwerk, deeming the sampling of the band's 1977 tune "Metall auf Metall" unlawful.
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The Sweeper by denise.io is a very cool envelope filter plug-in with a sidechain input. The filter reacts dynamically to the source signal or a sidechain signal for many creative filtering effects.
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A new update to the Percussa SSP will give it multi channel USB audio for routing audio and CV to and from your MacOS or Windows computer. All will be revealed in a live stream.
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Wondering how to keep track of the audio files on your hard drive after the death of iTunes? Take a look at Audio for Mac, a new macOS app for organizing file-based music collections.
Reclouder is a portable, battery-powered device which supports direct 24-bit/96kHz WAV recording onto SD/SDHC cards and uploading to a cloud storage platform (over Wi-Fi) and Bluetooth sync.
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Steinberg has acquired SpectraLayers, and released SpectraLayers Pro 6. The latest version of the spectral audio editor comes with new editing tools, workflow improvements, and ARA support.
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The Raspberry Pi miniature computer is more powerful than ever in its fourth generation. Could it become an option as a DAW computer for music applications in the near future?
INTRFX is a little box with 3 channels that can send your Eurorack audio into stompboxes or feed your synths into your Eurorack effects modules and filters. It puts everything through everything else.
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Are you ready for some creative pumping? The SUONOBUONO nABC is a hardware sidechain compressor that can be controlled and triggered via CV/Gate, MIDI, USB, audio, and even a pedal.
PreSonus has released version 4.5 of its popular Studio One DAW with over 70 changes and additions, said to be mostly user-requested, along with some under-the-hood work to reduce CPU load.
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Avid has announced that Pro Tools 2019 is now available. The new version comes with higher track counts, workflow improvements and macOS Mojave compatibility.
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MuLab has some neat improvements in v8, like audio sequences and creative time stretching. If you work with loops and samples, and MuLab isn't on your radar yet, this update could change that.
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25 years since its first release, Sound Forge has reached version 13, adding a new VST engine, ARA2 support, a redesigned GUI, and new mixing and mastering plug-ins, among other new features.
Avid is previewing Pro Tools 2019 at NAB. The highly anticipated release will feature big increases of the track counts for audio and MIDI, among other improvements.
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Rob Papen has released RP-Reverse, a plug-in for creative reversing effects. It comes with several modes for aligning and tempo-syncing reversed audio, and some internal effects.
Little Mikey will bring your voice, instrument or guitars into your Eurorack for whatever weird and twisted moments of deep and modulated sound design you can think of.
