27 Results for "automation"

How to recreate an authentic-sounding dub delay with software plugins

Producing authentic dub delay has always been tricky to do in the box. We go through some techniques and some of the best plugins available.

Best free plug-ins this week: MAXBAX, Triple Fader and Chromatic Tuner

This week’s collection of free plug-ins features a passive Baxandall EQ, a useful triple fader tool and a precise chromatic tuner.

Rogue Amoeba Audio Hijack 4: routing and recording tool for macOS

Audio Hijack 4 is a standalone audio recorder and processor with its real strength found in the many choices for routing (and hijacking!)

Bettermaker Stereo Passive Equalizer: Analog EQ with DAW control

Poland-based manufacturer Bettermaker promises an outstanding Pultec-style equalizer with the advantages of digital connectivity.

PreSonus launches Studio One 5.5 with new mastering tools and more

PreSonus has released Studio One 5.5 as a free update for all users of Studio One 5. The update includes many user requested mastering features and other improvements.

Steinberg WaveLab 11: multitrack editing, parameter automation and more

Steinberg has announced WaveLab 11. The new version of the audio editing software features enhanced support for multi-channel files, plug-in automation and many more improvements.

INSPIRATA: Has Inspired Acoustics reinvented convolution reverb?

Inspired Acoustics INSPIRATA is a convolution reverb with a vast amount of control. Has Inspired acoustics created the ultimate spatial workstation?

midierror RATCHETEER: semi-automatic MIDI pattern generator for Ableton Live

RATCHETEER is able to generate MIDI patterns all by itself, providing new MIDI loops for your projects in control by MIDI keyboards and automation. Neat!

Erica Synths Fusion VCF3 vacuum tube and vactrol based filter with recordable motion

Next in the fat Fusion line of valve-based modules is the VCF3 bringing softness and light with vactrol-driven resonant filtering and includes mixing, mult-ing and the ability to record CV modulation.

NAMM 2020: WesAudio ngBusComp – VCA bus compressor with plug-in control

WesAudio has announced the ngBusComp. The dual-channel VCA bus compressor pairs with a DAW plug-in, for total recall and automation of the analogue compression.

Best Eurorack Modules 2019: Top 5 Modular Synths and Effects

Eurorack modular continues to generate interesting pathways into sound and synthesis and is becoming more accessible all the time. Here's our choice of modules that stood out this year.

Audiaire Nuxx has 55 lanes worth of effects automation

Nuxx is a multi-FX processor with 30 types of effects and dedicated effects parameter sequencer. Oh, and real-time effects parameter automation over 55 parameter sequencing lanes. Phew.

Igniter vehicle sound design: spaceships, sports cars, trucks and texture

Craft your own plane, train, rocket, bike, alien, chopper and automobile engine sounds with Igniter, a fascinating granular sampling and synthesizer sound design machine.

Ableton Live 10.1 is coming: Here’s what’s new

The update, which is currently in beta, contains an extensive list of workflow improvements and bug fixes. Perhaps more interestingly, there are new tools for making music as well...

Gramotech Babylon: 48 EQ filters in one modern, colourful GBP 10 package

Cheap yet stylish, Babylon is a graphic equaliser with six filters, eight fully automateable filter types and a high-res spectrum analyser with two user-selectable rendering styles.

Blue Cat Audio gives away its Free Amp plug-in, 3 amp sims that go up to 11

With dials that go all the way to 11 these three new guitar amp simulation plugins will keep you busy for a while and best of all they are all completely free!

Malekko releases Quad LFO Generator with surpise built in 16-step sequencer

We first saw the Quad LFO at NAMM but didn't realise that you could record 16 steps of parameter automation. You can also distort the waveforms, change the phase and attenuate the output. It's full of ...

Circuit MIDI Editor – VST or standalone editor for Novation Circuit

This new Circuit MIDI Editor offers simple, immediate editing of the Novation Circuit within your DAW. Can it give Isotope's Circuit Pro Editor a run for its money?

Waves cross-bred an EQ and compressor plug-in and called it the F6

This isn't another vintage EQ sim like the many flooding the market on a weekly basis. Rather, Waves' new F6 EQ is unabashedly digital and designed as a "surgical" tool for critical frequency correction.

zenAud.io ALK promises no-frills fun with loops and sequences

zenAud.io is gearing up to release ALK, a colourful sequencing and looping platform for Mac computers with a focus on performance capabilities that could appeal to the Ableton Live crowd...

Reshape lets you get tactile with several effects

There are plenty of apps and plug-ins built upon the concept of XY pad-controlled effects. But this one lets you record your movements on said pads in real-time for interesting modulation...

Superbooth 2017: What’s Yamaha inventing with the Reface Robot?

Yamaha are showing a Reface CS being played and manipulated by a robot interface designed by Anno Labs. Is the Reface Robot science fiction or an exciting new direction?

ParamLink: Wire up effect plug-ins to control each other in your DAW

Can this simple but effective idea get you to rethink automation in your DAW? ParamLink is a new tool that lets you use plug-in A to control plug-in B. Or C, X or Z, for that matter...

Tracktion becomes Waveform and the DAW evolves

Waveform is the latest evolution of Tracktion Corporation's DAW. With a new mixing console, multiple platform support and uncommonly creative tools it's worth a look.