Acustica Audio has a new suite of three analog-inspired plug-ins called Water, modelled after a bunch of 60's hardware and replete with a channel strip, equalizer, and compressor.
Allen & Heath has completed its line-up of SQ-series digital consoles with the big daddy, the new SQ-7. This is a 33-fader desk that expands on the SQ-5 and SQ-6 which were announced last October.
Solid State Logic unveiled a new console designed for live applications in space-restricted environments - the L100. SSL also recommends it for sub-mixing and corporate production use cases.
Aiming for fast, simple workflow, Beatformer has only four knobs named Boom, Punch, Squash, and Air. Each knob triggers a set of pre-defined algorithms that do something to your drum mix.
It took 20 years, but FL Studio finally arrives on Mac OS with version 20. FL Studio 20 is truly multi-platform, with projects interchangeable between the Mac and Windows operating systems.
ReelBus 4 has improved tape simulation algorithms and new creative effects, such as Wear, which simulates tape damage to different degrees. New to version 4 are also a tape flanging effect with LFO.
The new Presenter mixer seems like a smart idea: designed a compact mixer that can easily accommodate audio from mobile devices like smartphones, tablets, and laptops over USB or 3.5mm TRS.
With this EQ, adjusting two adjacent bands results in a curve that's flat across the band edges, rather than having humps and valleys, with algorithms taken from the company's digital consoles.
At Musikmesse 2018, British manufacturer Drawmer will introduce a pair of new monitor controllers: CMC3 and CMC7. The CMC3 is the compact model, while the CMC7 is designed for Surround setups.
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.
German manufacturer HEDD Audio announced a new full-range monitoring system - the HEDD Tower Mains. They are designed to be cost-effective and compatible with "every possible studio environment.
Up-and-comer Soundtheory debuted its first creation - the Gullfoss intelligent automatic equalizer. The plug-in uses proprietary computational auditory perception technology to detect and resolve problems...
DW Drum Enhancer is designed to effectively streamline and simplify the typical drum processing chain by automatically applying appropriate settings for its in-built EQ, compression, and gate modules...
Nugen Audio has updated its MasterCheck Pro mastering software to version 1.5. The biggest additions are support for Apple's AAC and native OS X codec, along with an update for the PSR...
German pro audio brand SPL hit NAMM 2018 hard with three pieces of expensive, ostentatious hardware for the most well-versed in the dark arts of mixing and mastering out there...
The iD44 offers an imposing 20 inputs and 24 outputs, with Audient's proprietary preamps and choice of Burr Brown AD/DA converters. And the price tag is also a point of interest...
