VIP 2.0 update for Akai Advance Keyboards includes Air Creative FX
01 Apr 2016 in Synths
VIP version 2 now has support for audio plug-ins for hands on control from the Akai Advance range of keyboards and bundles in a whole load from Air.
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PSP StompDelay takes you on an infinite tape loop
All the wobble and warping of a tape delay with none of the danger of snapping or fuss of repairing.
Incipit from Inear Display is a toolbox full of delay
30 Mar 2016 in Studio
For designing sound and messing around with pitch shifting echos all day.
Avid Pro Tools 12.5 is now available to get collaborating in the cloud
29 Mar 2016 in Studio
The ghost of Rocket Networks finally returns to bring Pro Tools users online collaboration in the cloud.
Make music with Lego and robots with the Connection Kit for Ableton Live
29 Mar 2016 in Studio
Pull in, monitor and control sensor data from Lego engines, electronic kits and other bits and bobs and start messing with your computer music outside the box.
Browser music making for the Bank Holiday
26 Mar 2016 in Synths
Want something to fiddle with over the Easter bank holiday? Then give these browser based musical machines a try.
Dualo invite support for their du-touch S electric accordion thing
Start playing with yourself with this battery powered lap based looper, instrument and controller.
Novation introduce Blocs Wave – loop production for iOS
Play some loops and have fun while the music makes itself and if you run out of ideas there's plenty more inspiration to be had in the integrated store.
StudioLinked bring us Future Pop – and it’s very loud!
22 Mar 2016 in Synths
Can you recreate your favourite pop hits with this banging collection of modern sounds and samples? Should we even try?
Monoplugs’ Monique monosynth moves in mysterious ways
22 Mar 2016 in Synths
Something in the way she moves, morphs, modulates and oscilates that seems to leave this troubled world behind.
Psychic Modulation brings echoes of 80’s video with Phonec 2
When you need to recreate the sound of an 80's soundtrack from a worn out VHS tape.
2nd Sense Audio give us a Wiggle
21 Mar 2016 in Synths
This dynamic waveshaping synth from newcomers 2nd Sense Audio is demanding some wiggle room.
Spitfire Kontakt Joey Santiago’s soul
Get yourself angular and bent with your very own virtual Joey Santiago guitar mangling machine.
Applied Acoustics mix resonators with Chromaphone 2
18 Mar 2016 in Synths
Fancy splicing a string into a cymbal, a drum into a flute or crafting a perfectly haunted marimba?
2020 The Semi Modular Beat-Machine: Kickstarter campaign completed
16 Mar 2016 in
A complex beat making machine from the minds of Tokyo electronica group DUB-Russell is looking for Kickstarter support
Steinberg release version 9 of Wavelab Pro and Wavelab Elements
15 Mar 2016 in Studio
A new look and new mastering plug-ins for Steinberg's audio editor.
Famous guitarist shocked by Antelope guitar modelling
Orion Studio owners get some new modelled guitar amps.
Fugue Machine multi-playhead sequencer gets MIDI routing
Get lost into Serialism with a four-headed sequencer on your iPad
2nd generation of inValve Effects from Audified
14 Mar 2016 in Studio
Can we have enough tube-modeled compressors and warming plug-ins in our lives?
Stay up late with a free Nightlife virtual synth from Acoustica
Have a night on the tiles for free with this EDM-focused synth
Korg launch the Volca FM
10 Mar 2016 in Synths
Will it fill the FM hole in your life? You'll have to wait until May to find out.
You’ll soon have to pay for SoundCloud
09 Mar 2016 in Studio
Sources say that SoundCloud could be subscription-only by July...
Sample Logic turn the orchestra inside out in the name of cinema with Morphestra 2
Morph into a crowded sample library world where music and sound design collide with yet another Kontakt library of cinematic sounds - is this the mother-morpher of them all?
Sir George Martin dies aged 90
09 Mar 2016 in Studio
Reflections on when I worked with Sir George Martin (or spent a couple of hours trying to get a computer to work)