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Analog Obsession kick off 2018 with OAQ ‘analogue-sounding’ fixed frequency EQ
02 Jan 2018 · 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.
Audio Damage FilterStation 2 is here with 12 filters and modulations
28 Dec 2017 · 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?
Best free plug-ins for Xmas: Angle, Cloudrum & Combear
25 Dec 2017 · 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!
Acustica Audio Crimson plug-in blends analog distortion and compression
20 Dec 2017 · 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!
17 Dec 2017 · 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!
15 Dec 2017 · 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...
iMPC Pro 2 brings audio tracks and time stretching to the iPad groovebox
15 Dec 2017 · iMPC Pro 2 is officially here! Developed by Retronyms and AKAI, the new version turns the groovebox app into a fully functional song creation tool not unlike Apple's GarageBand...
AudioThing Type A: Enhancer plug-in based on 70s-era tape noise reduction
11 Dec 2017 · 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
09 Dec 2017 · 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
08 Dec 2017 · 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
06 Dec 2017 · 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.
Spotify buys SoundTrap: A new age in online music production and streaming?
19 Nov 2017 · Not content to own the streaming rights to all our music Spotify wants to own the tools that create the music. SoundTrap is a cool online DAW that runs on everything - I can see why they like it.
Teenage Engineering, smart speakers, China and cake
16 Nov 2017 · Teenage Engineering have been working with Chinese company Raven to produce artificially intelligent smart speakers the likes of which you've never seen. Currently, H and R only speak Chinese and love cake.
Sonimus combines the Black & Brown SSL 4K equalizers in its StonEQ 4k plug-in
12 Nov 2017 · Rather than go for a straight-up emulation, which has been done hundreds of times, Sonimus combined the best traits of the SSL 4K EQ's two variants - the Brown and Black versions...
HD CART reverb plug-in dusts off an old cartridge
01 Nov 2017 · HD•CART simulates an expansion cartridge from a "sought after, expensive" reverb unit that made the rounds in the 80s. It contained a program with Surround and HD modes doing powerful things to stereo ...
Music technology performances and workshops at We Are Robots festival
30 Oct 2017 · We Are Robots brings together an industry conference, live performances, workshops, seminars and an exhibition of future-facing music technology awesomeness in the East End from 2nd to 5th November
Native Instruments get a shed load of money and plan to take over the world
21 Oct 2017 · Native Instruments receive a €50 Million investment and plan to empower, diversify and develop intuitive and powerful products. Or they could buy a small island somewhere and start an evil empire.
AES 2017: iLok Cloud is an online protection dongle you can’t break or lose
18 Oct 2017 · Pace have announced they are taking your iLok licenses online to the Cloud that never fails and a connection that's always on. iLok Cloud is the definition of optimistic software protection.
Microsoft Surface Book 2: Leaving the MacBook Pro behind?
18 Oct 2017 · Microsoft announces the new Surface Book 2 with 8th generation CPUs, touch, pen, dial and Mixed Reality Nvidia graphics. Apple's offerings seem underwhelming at this point, unless you want a new phone.
AES 2017: Sound Radix’ Powair adaptive compressor tames the peaks on its own
17 Oct 2017 · Powair works at two stages with the goals of taming dynamics and improving the sound of vocals and instruments. The first part is being handled by a k-weighted perceived loudness auto-leveler...
Sonarworks Reference 4 frequency correction plug-in adds zero-latency monitoring
12 Oct 2017 · By removing latency, Reference 4 can now be used at the recording stage during tracking. Sonarworks promises "instant response" for its plug-in, which sounds pretty impressive...
ZVex Effects TB-1 Tea Ball Microphone – A storm in a teacup?
11 Oct 2017 · Yet again Zachary Vex wows us with his weird and wonderful inventions, this time the boutique effects builder has made an otherwise simple kitchen utensil into a cool sounding and unique microphone for all.