Posts by Lyubomir Dobrev

Audio Assault delivers The Punch, a saturator free until July 10

Audio Assault knows the punches tend to come free. So it made The Punch, a $10 saturation and compression tool with a single knob, free until July 10. Get on this and use the plug-in to fatten up your tracks!

oeksound soothe: a self-adjusting dynamic EQ for crushing problem frequencies

soothe lets you take advantage of a proprietary algorithm that automatically cleans up audio, suppresses unpleasant resonances, and engages only when appropriate. Sounds almost too good to be true!

Past echoes: Line 6 Echo Farm 3.0 is out for Windows ProTools users

Line 6's Echo Farm 3.0 is finally available on Windows, in 64-bit AAX format. These simulations of delay and echo effects won over many producers back in the day, and are now making a long-awaited return.

Free Plug-ins This Week: Yamaha synth emulation and a two-band overdrive

The Krakli Arminator is a beast of a synth that will let you coax authentic 80s soundtrack tones with ease, while saschArt has cooked up a brutal, two-headed distortion unit. Check them out!

KlangFormer: a Slate VMS alternative at half the cost?

The new KlangFormer mic modelling system combines German-made hardware with the Sonimus software studio - will this lower priced solution cut it against established products by Slate and Townsend Labs?

HoRNet announces new modulation-rich DeeLay Plus dual delay plug-in

HoRNet Plugins has released a new effect, the DeeLay Plus, a reasonably advanced delay with two separate lines with feedback and up to 5 seconds of delay time.

TC Electronic’s M100 effects box offers its reverbs on the cheap

TC has found the means to stuff an aluminum box with a fair bit of patented musical mojo and call it the M100. It's aimed at budding DJs and producers, or folks looking for a simplified, yet capable effects ...

Behringer’s affordable Monitor1 studio controller: Just a volume knob?

Quite possibly the simplest device of its kind, all the Monitor1 offers to those wishing to control a pair of studio monitors from their desk is a mono switch, a big ol' volume knob, and a mute switch.

Waves sets off Brauer Motion creative panner with awesome sci-fi interface

Waves released a brand-new creative panning plug-in called Brauer Motion. It was designed and developed together with mixing engineer Michael Brauer, whose repertoire includes artists like Coldplay and John ...

Lynx aims for the stars with its new Aurora(n) pro audio interface

Lynx Studio launched a high-end audio interface today, the Aurora(n). It's a brand new device that's set to continue the legacy of the Aurora brand, known for all the usual characteristics of pro audio ...

M-Audio’s new all-in bundle for 238 EUR: M-Track 2×2 Vocal Studio Pro

M-Audio has put together a recording bundle of "pro" gear - audio interface, condenser mic, and headphones - the M-Track 2x2 Vocal Studio Pro. At a pretty tasty price. Too good to be true?

KRK paints its V-series 4 studio monitors White (Noise)

KRK has added a new model to its V-series of nearfield studio monitors. The V-Series 4 White Noise is sold in White and it's basically the same thing as the KRK V4 4-inch monitor, but the opposite colour...

Free Plug-ins This Week: Regroover Essential, an overdrive and a cool modelling synth

We have rounded up four great free plug-ins that came out this week. You are invited to download them, use them, abuse them, and give them a proper try within your productions. You have nothing to lose!

BeatMaker 3 to hit iOS July 15 with a bag of updates and features

BeatMaker 3, the latest release of iOS' oldest and still one of the best best grooveboxes and portable studios, is going to be out June 15. There's an extensive list of new features and additions - check them ...

Coming soon from Output, a new product that doesn’t make any sound!

Output, makers of crowd favorites like its Movement and Substance engines, is teasing a brand new product that's supposedly coming soon. All we know it's that it's not another engine, or anything that makes ...

Simple tools to optimize your bass drum? Enter Singomakers’ Kick Tweak

Kick Tweak is an elaborate effects processor masked behind an exceedingly simple, 3-knob interface. Although this is sufficient, we can't help but feel the plug-in could have offered more in-depth control.

AccuSonus and ADSR give away Regroover Essential free until June 20

Regroover can break down recorded loops into layers and lets you manipulate individual elements - the Essentials version is free until June 20...

The elysia karacter bundle has three ways of distorting your tracks

While the karacter mix plug-in is used for basic treatment of regular tracks, master is optimal for working on complete mixes. Both have Tube, Saturation, and Hard Clipping distortion.

TC Electronic TwentyFour, a 24-channel reverb for surround and live

TC Electronic's new hardware reverb is made for studio big-shots working on extreme multi-channel audio, such as movie projects in the Dolby Atmos, Barco Auro, and NHK formats...

Overloud’s Dopamine gives your audio a shot of tape sizzle

Dopamine simulates the process of magnetic tape noise reduction, which involves dynamically "brightening" the signal - can this new plug-in live up to the marketing hype?

Grab a multi-effect, a saturator, and a drum machine for free!

We have lined up three fantastic free plug-ins that showed up this week. They include an awesome multi-effect by HY Plug-ins, an authentic tube saturator by WaveArts, and a drum machine rompler by ...

mood is a Model D clone for the iPad like you haven’t seen before

iOS synth pioneers apeSoft released mood, best described as a Model D from 2021. Its interface looks like a spaceship command terminal, while the sound remains grounded in the last century...

Magix Sequoia 14 brings time stretching, Melodyne, audio restoration

Magix's venerable Sequoia DAW gets an update to v14 (!), with some useful new additions that should bolster its professional image and alternative to Pro Tools.

NI releases Thrill, a scarily priced spooky sound generator

A new VSTi producing suspenseful soundscapes and FX, Thrill uses the Kontakt 5 sampler and sports a huge 30GB library as well as a neat GUI - but unfortunately also a frighteningly high price tag.