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We saw prototypes of the Dirt Magnet and Modmix at last year's Superbooth. Now Finegear has them ready with preorders to open at the show.
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We're witnessing a cassette tape comeback! The compact cassette experiences its biggest sales in 20 years. Here's why you should rediscover tape...
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The Vinyl vs Digital debate. Opinions abound as Bob and Stefan discuss different music appreciation formats. Lend us your ears, folks!
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Free plugins of the week: TapeStop delivers the tape stop effect, Xenos is an algorithmic synthesizer and the Wave Manuel synth gets an update.
We look into the history of ADAT, a digital multitrack format that made professional recording more accessible throughout the 1990s.
HUE, from Modbap, is a chain of 5 effects to colour, saturate, compress, distort and texturise your Eurorack bleeps and bloops for lush lofi tones.
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Teenage Engineering has updated the OP-1 and released the OP-1 Field – for a mindblowing price. Is it worth it? Find out in our review!
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Universal Audio's LUNA recording system for macOS now runs natively on Apple Silicon processors. The update also brings several bug-fixes.
Softube August Sale is another strong montly sales campaign by the Swedish developer. Until August 31, there are 15 plug-ins on sale.
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Apogee is giving away its Soft Limit plug-in. It's an emulation of tape compression which it introduced in its first A/D converters.
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You can now take your cassette tape loops out into the wild with experimental voltage control on the Loopman Field Player from Error Instruments.
Denise Bad Tape 2 has a sequel's best qualities - more of the same, but bigger and better. This means 5 additional algorithms and side-chain.
Excite Audio Lifeline Console has 5 analog saturation modules which can be arranged and combined in as many as 243 different ways.
This week's collection of free plug-ins features a tape emulation for those lo-fi vibes, tube distortion from the makers of Tarabia, and a delay.
ASX-72 by G-Sonique conjures the sound and color of various tape machines. Expect plenty of warmth, saturation, and all-around analog feel.
The Softube Console 1 Mk2 controller is on sale for EUR 449 (a discount of near EUR 100) along with several plug-ins (normally worth USD 596).
The Martinic promotion runs until April 25, 2022 and covers some of the developer's better-known plug-in effects and instruments.
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After the leak earlier this year, Boss has announced not one but two new Space Echo Delay/Reverb effect pedals. The compact RE-2 and full-size RE-202.
NEBULA N4.5 brings compatibility with macOS Monterey and Apple Silicon. The 70% discount sees the price reduced to EUR 89.
This new NUX NDD-7 Tape Echo, another Roland Space Echo RE-201 style effect, may give the recently announced BOSS RE-2 Space Echo some tough competition.
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Copy Box is a desktop delay module from Mood Armada, famous for their Baby Bots, that's full of tape-style character, warmth and playfulness from subtle modulations to mighty mangles.
Plugin Boutique is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a killer deal on XLN Audio Retro Color. Get it at 80% off – but only for a couple of days!
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GForce unearths another fabulously ancient machine and captures the tape banks of the dual-manual Chamberlin Musicmaster and Mellotron MkI and MkII.
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Arturia wants to make your holiday season extra warm and cozy with Tape MELLO-FI, a vintage tape emulation with plenty of retro vibes. Get it for FREE until December 31!