Posts by Lyubomir Dobrev

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.

Go hard or go soft on your mix with Tokyo Dawn’s new DeEdger plug-in

The DeEdger is a rather intriguing transient shaper with the purpose of controlling a signal – or an entire mix's – "hardness", of sorts. But what features does this new tool bring to the transient-shaping ...

Dead Duck’s free Synth and Effect bundles will rock your socks off!

You might have your needs covered by other VSTs and effects bundles, but can you ever have enough quality plug-ins? Head over to Dead Duck's and check out these two free FX bundles...

Get epic build-ups with Endless Smile by the makers of Sausage Fattener!

Dada's new ridiculous-until-you-actually-use-it plug-in is called the Endless Smile. It employs a secret combination of filtering, phasing, distortion, LFOs, reverbs, and audio displacement effects...

Why music producers shouldn’t fret over 2017 MacBook Pros

Those who bought 2016 MacBooks this or last year have no compelling reason to upgrade to the new machines. They will be just fine bashing out bangers on their laptops for another year or two before upgrading...

Waves cross-bred an EQ and compressor plug-in and called it the F6

This isn't another vintage EQ sim like the many flooding the market on a weekly basis. Rather, Waves' new F6 EQ is unabashedly digital and designed as a "surgical" tool for critical frequency correction.

Antelope Audio launches Orion Studio HD interface for Pro Tools rigs

This is Antelope's third product to offer complete Pro Tools | HD and Native compatibility, accomplished via HDX and USB 3.0 for zero-latency streaming and 24-bit/192 kHz audio processing.

BeatSkillz’s free “intelligent” MAX-1 compressor could easily have cost 30 bucks

Surprisingly, BeatSkillz has decided to release its new MAX-1 "intelligent" compressor for free, even though the functionality on offer would be appropriate for a $30 price tag.

Sennheiser has a new pair of headphones – for rich Pink Floyd fans

Sennheiser is commemorating "Their Mortal Remains" – Pink Floyd's V&A retrospective – with a special pair of its Momentum HD 1 wireless headphones. Wait till you find out what they cost.

UAD software version 9.2 introduces exclusive plug-ins by Antares and Softube

Universal Audio's plug-in and hardware DSP package is in the "big boys" league when it comes to computer audio. Both its original software, authentic vintage hardware emulations, and hardware products are...

Sound Forge pro audio editor gets a second life thanks to MAGIX

Notable additions to SF Pro Mac 3 include loudness metering and the iZotope Plug-ins RX Elements and Ozone 7 Elements. MAGIX also added support for 64-Bit float/192kHz/32 channels...

EchoMelt is a warbly multi-fx plug-in for face-melting tunes

EchoMelt is a new multi-FX plug-in focussing on Chorus, Echo, saturation, a parametric EQ, and a proprietary "Melt" effect. Serious business!

zenAud.io ALK promises no-frills fun with loops and sequences

zenAud.io is gearing up to release ALK, a colourful sequencing and looping platform for Mac computers with a focus on performance capabilities that could appeal to the Ableton Live crowd...