Posts by Lyubomir Dobrev

Best free plug-ins this week: RaveGenerator, Drift, Synthaktion Basic

In this week's choice of no-cost musical instruments and effects you can add to your productions right away! We have a rompler, a lovably weird Sinevibes effect, and a Kontakt-based monophonic synthesizer...

MAGIX Music Maker in new customized editions with free updates for life

Celebrating 22 years on the market, MAGIX is releasing customizable Music Maker Editions designed to let users assemble their own Music Maker package with their preferred instruments and features.

MOTU ships 828 ES $1000 interface: Can it break into the pro interface market?

MOTU (Mark Of The Unicorn) has a new audio interface in rack format. The 828 ES supports 60 simultaneous audio channels in total, spread out across 28 inputs and 32 outputs. More specifically, there are 8 ...

Waves 25th Anniversary sale: up to 80% off famous plug-ins

To celebrate 25 years of killin' it, Waves is doing an anniversary sale where it's taking up to 80% off its products and bundles. Additionally, it redesigned and updated three of its longest-standing ...

Slate finally releases FG-Stress, a licensed Empirical Labs Distressor emulation

Steven Slate says FG-Stress took the better part of two years to complete - and as usual he ain't hiding his pride in his work. But it is priced a good amount below the competition...

iZotope teasing new Ozone and Neutron versions?

iZotope is due to update its stuff. It looks like something is on the horizon, for the company published a short teaser video on its YouTube channel. The clip most likely refers to Ozone 8 and Neutron 2...

Xirid XS2: a new hardware sequencer on the horizon!

The XS2 is shrouded in mystery and will likely remain so until November, when it will receive a showcase at the SoundMit expo in Italy. It's a neat and simple-looking box with a display, several knobs and ...

Best free plug-ins this week: a synth and two hi-end EQs for serious production!

We have lined up four high quality plug-ins that come at no cost, ready to enter your projects. There's a free synth, two equalizers, and a pink noise generator - especially useful for wearing down your ...

Kush Audio Novatron: a varitone tube compressor with a variety of sounds

Novatron is an analog-modeled Varitone Tube Compressor. With the combined traits of several classic compressors, it features a vintage-inspired interface and an appropriately warm sound for a classic vibe...

AudioThing Wave Box: no distortion gets more brutal than waveshaping!

Wave Box looks like a simulated piece of 70s power plant test equipment, but it's actually a dynamic dual waveshaper capable of maximum wave-destroying fun! Its two shapers can also be modulated by a pair of ...

iZotope sets Ozone’s Imager free: get your mixes sounding nice and wide!

iZotope's Imager is now a free stand-alone plug-in, designed for manipulating the stereo image Any mix or master can benefit from widening the stereo field, a sure-fire way of getting your song sounding ...

Eventide EQuivocate is out – a science’d up equalizer free ’till October 31

EQuivocate is an Eventide equalizer plug-in with match EQ functionality and specialty frequency bands modeled on the human ear itself. It's also free until October 31! A free Eventide product is never to pass ...

Upcoming: Wavesfactory Spectre is 7 saturators in 1 beautiful monster plug-in

Pretty colors and 7 types of saturation! Does that sound good? It's the foundation of Spectre, a multi-band enhancer plug-in from the fine minds at Wavesfactory. Currently in development, Spectre has 5 EQ ...

Recorded some badly tuned drums? Waves’ new Torque plug-in can help

So you've recorded some drums and noticed after the band left the studio that the tuning was off. Delete the project? Waves says its new Torque plug-in can help.

The Neumann U87 re-imagined in Rhodium for 50 year anniversary

The Neumann U87 in Rhodium certainly is a sight to behold, even if it boils down to it being a shiny version of the same bit of gear from 50 years ago. It's certainly a cool way of honouring the famous mic...

Unfiltered Audio SpecOps: 36 shades of spectral audio glitching mayhem

SpecOps is a swiss-knife of an audio destructor which features a blend of no less than 36 different spectral effects for total glitch mayhem. It slices audio into grains and lets you freely apply spectral ...

Focusrite Red 16Line and RedNet X2P audio interfaces are out on the Ethernet

Focusrite has two brand-new additions to its Red line of audio interfaces. With their feature sets and extensive connectivity, the Red 16Line and RedNet X2P are unmistakeably geared towards pro audio heads...

Royer R-10: a quality ribbon microphone that’s also affordable?

Aimed at both studio and live conditions, the R-10 can handle sound pressure of up to 160 dB, yet its compact size allows for "flexible positioning", apparently. And at $500, it doesn't break the bank ...

HumBeatz browser app takes your hums, turns them into melodies and beats

Ever thought about how wickedly easy it would be if you could just hum some melody lines into the mic and have the computer play them with the sound of a particular instrument? Yeah, they made it happen!

The Roland TR-606 gets miniaturized on the iPhone and iPad

Roland's hardware has been faithfully translated onto the iPhone and iPad's screen and features a 16-step sequencer with song mode. Swing and tap tempo controls let you shuffle up the rhythms...

NI Komplete Kontrol S49 and S61 MK2: how tickling the ivories looks in 2017

The Komplete Kontrol S49 & S61 MK2 update what is still one of the world's fanciest MIDI controllers with technology and enhancements familiar from the Maschine range of production stations...

iZotope raises Spire, but how ‘no-hassle’ can wireless music recording be?

iZotope has announced the Spire Studio - a portable wireless system meant to let musicians "capture, edit, and collaborate" music on the spot - it also has a free iOS recording app...

Native Instruments Maschine MK3 announced: A whole new bag of tricks!

Today, Berlin-based Native Instruments took the wraps off of Maschine MK3, the third iteration of its software/hardware hybrid production system. This is the first major product upgrade since 2012's Maschine ...

NI Maschine MK3 and Komplete Kontrol S61 MK2 keyboard: could it be?

Casually strolling through the Native Instruments forum, we stumbled upon a thread showing what could be major upgrades to NI's Maschine system and Komplete Kontrol MIDI controller range...