Following the roll-out of spatial audio in its Apple Music streaming service, Apple has announced that it will build spatial audio into Logic Pro.
Black Salt Audio's Low Control and Escalator plug-ins are meant to deliver big sounds with few controls - but is the price justified?
SSL's new UC1 hardware controller lends classic console ergonomics to your SSL Native plug-ins production process.
AKAI is megadosing vibe into its MPC One groovebox with a facelift that harkens back to the days of gray MPCs in smokey project studios.
iZotope is renting out its mixing and mastering plug-ins in two subscription plans starting at USD 19.99 per month.
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IK Multimedia has updated its massive Total Studio bundle. Total Studio 3 MAX includes no less than 440 GB of sounds and 487 effects for every stage of music production.
Waves' new creative vocal processing tool, Vocal Bender, lets you adjust, modulate and automate pitch and formant parameters. Early birds get 2/3 off.
SSL culminates its studio ergonomics experience in a premium DAW controller - the UF8.
For EUR 20 per month or EUR 199 per year, Reason+ unlocks the full version of Reason and weekly Sound Packs.
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Cool, compact and clever: VERSELAB MV-1's new approach to music production has it all: patterns, sounds, effects and vocal recording. A new standard?
British manufacturer Audient starts off 2021 right with the introduction of two new audio interfaces and an inexpensive studio package.
Filtryg is a dual multimode filter plug-in with plenty of modulation and MIDI playability - packaged behind a swish GUI that looks fun to use.
Developer Image-Line released a feature-complete version of the upcoming FL Studio 20.8 update prior to its official Dec 14 launch.
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Optimize your Windows 10 computer for music production - including power user tweaks Microsoft removed in the 2004 & 20H2 updates!
Suffering from composers' block? The makers of Jamahook say their new tool generates melody and harmony loops that will fit your song's key, tempo and mood.
1010music's new Bluebox is a portable mixer/recorder that packs everything you need into a compact little box with a 3.5-inch touchscreen and physical controls.
With Perfect Plate XL, developer Denise presents a new and expanded version of its plate reverb plug-in with more parameters and EQ to adjust.
MixBucket aims to make documenting song feedback faster, easier, and possible from a distance, and uses Dropbox and Google Docs. Oh, did we mention it's free?
The first ARM-based Mac runs better than the current Macbook Pro 13 with Intel Core i5 according to new benchmarks - good news for musicians hoping for better performance on next-gen Macbooks.
Scaler 2 updates a capable harmony and chord generator/helper utility, adding song analysis with chord recognition. One to check out for songwriters looking for inspiration.
Drum Replacer looks like a cutting-edge drum replacement and clean-up tool that stands up to industry standards like Slate Trigger and Drumagog.
Apple is exploring new, touch-enabled ways to interact with Mac applications on its MacBook laptops. The potential for a built-in DAW controller is real!
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Is Behringer working on an MPC-style sampling groove box named Jam? On the same day as the AKAI MPC Live II announcement, the company has posted a render on Facebook that suggests so.
Tracker is an audio workstation with an old-school tracker sequencer. Designed very nicely, the hardware includes an integrated sampler, synthesizer, and an FM radio for sample fodder. Cute!