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NAMM 2018: Electro-Harmonix 95000 Performance Loop Laboratory

The self-professed inventors of looping, Electro-Harmonix may have created the ultimate looper pedal, the 95000 Performance Loop Laboratory, with loads of memory, stacks of control and bags of vibe.

NAMM 2018: Universal Audio goes sub-$500 with Arrow 2×4 desktop audio interface

Universal Audio is about to hit NAMM with a brand new audio interface called Arrow, its new "entry-level" 2x4 interface featuring one SHARC chip and is bundled with 14 UAD plug-ins.

Best free plug-ins this week: Bias FX LE, RS-MET ToolChain, One Track Orchestra, HY-TP2

This week, we get a taste of Bias FX with its LE version available as a gift from the peeps at Propellerheads. And a multi-effect processing plug-in for those who like chains... Processing chains, that is.

Turbine: design sounds with fighter jet engine simulations!

Turbine's sound generation capabilities stem from simulations of actual engines. Said virtual engines, among which you will find more than a few fighter jets, are supposedly authentic recreations...

Cosmosf FX5: convolution-powered audio mangling with sci-fi interface

Attention audio manglers and sound designers: Cosmosf FX5 is here, and it's pretty nuts. A live audio stochastic processor, it's got a GUI like spaceship terminals in sci-fi movies with cryptic controls to ...

Analog Obsession kick off 2018 with OAQ ‘analogue-sounding’ fixed frequency EQ

Want to try out a different EQ approach than your standard DAW EQ? 2018 kicks off with Analog Obsession's OAQ, a fixed-frequency plug-in with component modelling and a GUI to match.

Top 5 best free studio and creative plug-ins 2017!

As the years go by, the quality of free stuff doesn't seem to be dropping. This year saw plenty of cool releases - here's our top 5 favourite free plug-ins of 2017. Enjoy!

Audio Damage FilterStation 2 is here with 12 filters and modulations

Filterstation2, Audio Damage's newest release, is a collection of 12 filter topologies - among which are famous designs like the Korg MS20 filter. Is its good GUI concept going to be enough to tempt you?

Nomad Factory’s 80’s Spaces: easy 80’s retro reverb sounds

Nomad Factory and MoReVoX have come up with 80's Spaces, a new reverb plug-in harking back to the era of bad hair and shoulder pads and lots of songs you only like when you've had a few drinks.

Best free plug-ins for Xmas: Angle, Cloudrum & Combear

Santa has early Christmas gifts for audio maniacs: three high-quality free plug-ins released just before the celebration: a tilt eq, a steel drum sampling instrument and a parallel compressor. Ho, ho, ho!

Top 5 best studio and creative effect plug-ins

As 2017 nears its end, it's time to round up Gearnews' top 5 favorite plug-ins for this year. Putting this list together was difficult, for the past 12 months saw so many awesome releases!

Acustica Audio Crimson plug-in blends analog distortion and compression

Acustica Audio has released an ambitious new compression and distortion plug-in to its Aqua series, saying that Crimson can do both "precise" and "colourful". We take a first look.

Best free plug-ins this week: Organteq Alpha, 2 synths, and Phasis!

This week saw at least four high quality releases that you can have absolutely free! Just say the magic word at the... hey, there's not even a magic word. Just four excellent free plug-ins...

Phasis: a free holiday gift from Native Instruments!

To celebrate the holidays, Native Instruments released a brand new free effect called Phasis. As you may have guessed from the name, this is a phaser plug-in. It borrows its sounds from classic phaser units...

AudioThing Type A: Enhancer plug-in based on 70s-era tape noise reduction

Type A emphasises high frequencies during the recording stage, and at playback time, the signal is attenuated along with the characteristic tape hiss. Worth a throw? We reckon it might.

Best free plug-ins this week: Isol8, Retrox, Ambient Reverb 4

Want to check out some free plug-ins released this week? We have a brand new monitoring tool, a cool little synth rompler, and an interesting reverb to show you. Let's have a look!

Trigger synths and effects with the new HY-RPE step sequencer

Aside from this being a great-looking plug-in, HY-RPE has 8 block chainer units in addition to the 8 grid sequencer tracks, and supports step velocity, probability, and trigger timing features...

Choose from 5 analogue circuits in Shattered Glass Audio’s Inferno plug-in

Inferno is a simulator of five distortion and saturation circuits meant for adding character, color, and warmth to audio. Each circuit is based on an actual hardware unit, its maker says.

Warm up your audio with Overloud’s Sculptube tube distortion and saturation plug-in

Sculptube can be used for "warming up" audio with subtle distortion and coloration, overdriving the input for typical valve distortion, and as an exciter which enhances top frequencies with natural harmonics...

Rode unveils its first ever USB audio interface, the AI-1

Out of the blue, microphone manufacturer Rode announced its first-ever USB audio interface, the AI-1. It's currently sold as part of the Rode AI-1 Complete Studio Kit bundle, which includes the Rode NT-1 mic...

FabFilter releases Pro-L2 True Peak limiter, watch overview video

FabFilter announced that Pro-L2, the next version of its highly regarded limiter plug-in, is coming December 5th, 2017. The company published an overview video, available below, to promote the release...

Best free plug-ins this week: FB-3200 synth and Jamstix 4 free

This week has a humble selection of two great free tools for music producers - a simulation of a Korg synthesizer and a drum plug-in. You probably don't want to miss these, so be sure to give them a go!

sonible unleashes smart:EQ live, an AI partner for live sound pros

smart:EQ live is a new adaptive equalizer plug-in from sonible that's designed for live sound mixing. It employs intelligent algorithms to listen to live audio signals and optimize them in real-time...

Slate expands VMS with Classic Tubes 3, a pack of five vintage tube mics

Steven Slate primed and launched an expansion pack for the Virtual Microphone System (VMS). Classic Tubes 3 contains digital recreations of five hand-selected vintage tube condenser mics...