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Line 6's Echo Farm 3.0 is finally available on Windows, in 64-bit AAX format. These simulations of delay and echo effects won over many producers back in the day, and are now making a long-awaited return.
With all the excitement of the SE-02 we missed the sneaky release of a vintage digital classic - the Roland D-50 Linear Arithmetic Synthesizer recreated as a plug-in.
Waves released a brand-new creative panning plug-in called Brauer Motion. It was designed and developed together with mixing engineer Michael Brauer, whose repertoire includes artists like Coldplay and John ...
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Don't have enough cash for a Deckard's Dream? We've got you covered with Arminator, a free Yamaha CS-80 virtual instrument with a Vangelis inspired soundbank by Armin Kujashi.
Dopamine simulates the process of magnetic tape noise reduction, which involves dynamically "brightening" the signal - can this new plug-in live up to the marketing hype?
The 4MS Spectral Multiband Resonator is a striking, versatile, deep and enormously playable Eurorack module that Softube have modelled for their Modular plug-in. Let's play!
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Cosmosf FX4 pulls micro events out of delay buffers, spins them in multi-dimensional granular space and builds meso and macro sonic delights - it's a delay plug-in like you've never seen.
The DeEdger is a rather intriguing transient shaper with the purpose of controlling a signal – or an entire mix's – "hardness", of sorts. But what features does this new tool bring to the transient-shaping ...
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.
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Syntronik is 38 classic synthesizers sampled into 17 instruments with modelled filters and authentically drifting oscillators. It's more than a slice of synthesizer heaven it's the whole damn cake.
Surprisingly, BeatSkillz has decided to release its new MAX-1 "intelligent" compressor for free, even though the functionality on offer would be appropriate for a $30 price tag.
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Roland "redefine the future" again with 14 new product releases spread out over the next 5 weeks. With 2 new synths and 6 new guitar products, what do you think they could be launching?
EchoMelt is a new multi-FX plug-in focussing on Chorus, Echo, saturation, a parametric EQ, and a proprietary "Melt" effect. Serious business!
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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...
Modalities to the fold. It's a super no-frills rompler filled to the brim with synth sounds inspired by good ol' Depeche Mode. Say what you want about the band, but we can all agree the synths work...
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The 8 preset Polymoog is a rather strange beast, but one with a classic repertoire. XILS-Lab PolyM aims to tame it into a versatile virtual instrument
