Posts by Lyubomir Dobrev

The new Mac mini is the ideal starter Mac for music production

Apple is touting a full-fledged professional computer with big boy hardware such as quad-core 8th Gen Intel processors, support for up to 64GB of RAM, and up to 2TB of space.

The new iPad Pro has USB-C and charges your iPhone – pretty great for musicians

There are two particularly important changes for iOS musicians. The first is the 3.5mm headphone jack's removal, and the second is the introduction of USB C in place of the old Lightng port.

New MacBook Air delivers macOS & Thunderbolt to musicians for USD 1199

Apple's groundbreaking laptop receives a successor equipped with a high-resolution Retina display (no True Tone, though), USB-C/Thunderbolt ports, and Touch ID fingerprint-scanning protection.

Texture: A sound design plug-in that embraces layering sounds

Some of the creative possibilities offered by Texture incude “glueing” your hi-hats transients by adding dynamic filtered noise and beefing up a kick drum with a low sine wave.

Let 1989Reverb send you back to the 80s

Iconic looks aside, 1989Verb packs plenty of algorithms to get you grinning as you browse the various presets. There are reverse reverbs, re-gens, tap delays, flangers, and general 80s goodness.

Overloud honours the granddaddy of compressors with COMP670

The plug-in market is ripe with F670 emulations of wildly varying quality, which means Overloud worked hard in order to differentiate their product. Hence, COMP670 provides not one, but three FC670s!

Acon Digital Mastering Suite: An affordable pack of essential mastering tools

Designed for signal transparency and with rather simplified user interfaces, these plug-ins obviously aren't for fans of thick, warm vintage sounds. Rather, they fully embrace the clinical sound of digital.

Sculpt noise into form with Noize, a sleek and creative noise generator

Noize is a noise-generating plug-in that adapts itself in real time to sound input and can be creatively shaped for a tasteful result. It includes all five noise types known to mankind!

Deal: grab Native Instruments’ Crush Pack + Mod Pack for USD 70 until Nov 4

NI is giving us an exceptional offer - buy the Crush Pack + Mod Pack effects bundle for the price of either one. The offer is valid until Nov 4, giving you enough time to come up with those 70 bucks!

Behringer drops prices on gear, rekindles Thomann partnership

Consumer technology has its Samsung, soft drinks have their Coca-Cola, enterprise computing has its Microsoft... and, in the very near future, if not already, music has its Behringer.

UVI Plate goes above and beyond that classic plate reverb sound

UVI enters the plate reverb market with, er, Plate, a "custom-shop" virtual electro-mechanical reverb with a configurable design and control over aspects such as metal type, plate size and more.

The 7-year wait is over: NI Kontakt 6 has landed with new instruments and effects

Kontakt 6 brings the world's favorite sampler up to scratch and has enough new content to warrant an upgrade from the almost 7-year old Kontakt 5 engine.

AES 2018: TC Electronic TC8210-DT & TC1210-DT bite-sized hardware/software combos

The TC8210-DT reverb and TC1210 spatial expander are both small-format units which honor the original hardware's layout, modernizing it for the studios and producers of today.

AES 2018: Waves Abbey Road TG Mastering Chain brings the utmost in vintage mastering

Created with Abbey Road Studios, this is a modular mastering chain which recreates the EMI TG12410's mastering processors, in use at the legendary facility's mastering suites since the early '70s right to this ...

AES 2018: Acustica Audio team up with Grammy producer Greg Wells for vintage comp

At AES 2018, plug-in developer Acustica Audio and producer Greg Wells revealed their latest creation: the 'El Rey', a virtual analogue Greg Wells signature compressor plug-in that certainly looks the part.

AES 2018: iZotope Nectar 3 automates vocal production with machine learning

Improvements and changes are aplenty, starting with an user interface facelift and moving through five new modules and an AI-powered assistant. Coming next month, N3 will be a free upgrade if you purchase N2 ...

AES 2018: SSL FlexVerb is a brand new reverb plug-in coming in SSL Native v6.1

SSL describes FlexVerb as a versatile reverb that's intuitive. Of note is the split early-late reflection interface, which lets you dial in the natural body and tone of different early room reflections.

AES 2018: Rupert Neve Designs 5211 2-channel mic pre

The AES goodness has officially began with the announcement of RND's 5211 Two Channel Microphone Preamplifier. Each channel has a generous 72dB of gain on tap, enough to cover even gain-hungry microphones.

D16 Redoptor 2: A revamped, retooled and restyled tube distortion plug-in

Version 2 of Redoptor adds a lot of new functions to D16's distortion plug-in and promises a lot of phat tube goodness (as well as a sleek if busy GUI) in what looks like a stellar release.

Accusonus ERA Voice Leveler: A one-knob cure for your vocal volume woes?

Accusonus' new ERA Voice Leveler is a plug-in to automatically detect level differences in voice recordings and fix them using patent-pending algorithms while presenting a super-simple GUI.

Audio Coach: A free mix training app for your smartphone or tablet

Mix engineer Max Montanez and producer Chizzy Stephens (JLo, Bieber, Chris Brown, and more) released Audio Coach - a free mix and ear training app that's pretty much the first of its kind.

Heritage Audio HA-73 EQX2 dual mic amp/equalizer: two for the price of one?

Two for the price of one and posh audio - these are the HA-73's main selling points. And at around EUR 1500 (excl. VAT), it makes for a fine deal, considering it's built with components like Carnhill ...

Osaka Mix EQ lets you drift into analogue non-linearity

The equalizer stands out with the DRIFT+ feature - an additional preamp stage where the custom circuitry's reaction to component temperature changes over time is modeled, and you have hands-on control over it!

PreSonus updates its most portable audio interface, the Studio 24, for the current generation

The PreSonus® Studio 24 2x2 USB-C bus-powered audio/MIDI interface can record up to 24-bit, 192 kHz audio and comes equipped with PreSonus XMAX-L solid-state preamps & high-end converters.