A straight-up USD 799 replica of the Telefunken ELA M 251 whose official reissue costs no less than USD 9500! Can Warm Audio deliver ten-thousand-dollar quality at a tenth of the price?
Kontakt 6 brings the world's favorite sampler up to scratch and has enough new content to warrant an upgrade from the almost 7-year old Kontakt 5 engine.
Apogee's dinky wee Jam+ lets you record an electric guitar, bass or keyboard directly to an iOS device, PC, or Mac - and adds the important option of using headphones to monitor on the device.
sE promises that it's honoured the original capsule design, custom-built transformer and class-A circuit topologies for a 1:1 recreation of what's considered a studio classic - yet brought up to modern ...
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Looking suspiciously like the original Komplete Kontrol keyboards the new A-Series controllers aim to bring NKS instrument mapping to a keener budget.
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The MOD Duo guitar pedal gets upgraded to the MOD Duo X and placed on the desktop. Apparently, It contains an infinite amount of effects, instruments and MIDI utilities but details are still a bit sketchy.
Ableton has added to Live 10 with a selection of eight sound design tools developed in collaboration with Amazing Noises. And they're free, too. Live users should spin these up and dive in.
You can now get to preview Mutable Instruments modules inside VCVRack before they release the source code. Audible Instrument Preview currently has Plaits ready for you to try and there will be more to follow.
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Priced just USD 300, the bundles include a cardioid condenser microphone, a shock mount, and the ECM-87 Mic Clone plug-in. The initial kit offers eight mic emulations, each with a ratio slider.
The new batch of 63 NKS-enabled plug-ins provide plug-in mapping from NI's Komplete Kontrol and Maschine controllers, as well as tag-based preset browsing. The plug-ins and instruments come pre-mapped.
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German manufacturer Burg announced a new tube condenser microphone, the Burg M1. The design comes from German condenser mic royalty Andreas Grosser, known for modding and repairing U47 mics.
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Camelot provides a cross-platform management, hosting and MIDI/Audio routing for live performance for not just virtual instruments and effects but hardware instruments too. It will even pull all the presets in.
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Reason 10 Intro retains all the really useful stuff like VST support, Player Devices and Ableton Link and lets you play with 16 tracks and a decent selection of synths and effects. It's a great value DAW.
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Fancy 94 products, 43 virtual instruments, 16,800 sounds in 179GB, 39 mastering processors and 350 guitar related gizmos? IK Multimedia Total Studio 2 MAX has got you covered.
Lakeside Audio has introduced a very interesting plug-in - if the marketing is to be believed, it's fabulous at isolating different instruments from finished songs, though results depend on source material.
At NAMM 2018, British mic maker Sontronics announced revisions of its finely aged ribbon microphones - the Apollo, Delta, and Sigma. All three models have been completely revised, rebuilt, and improved...
