Kuassa Rectifor: Grab a cheap Mesa Boogie-style amp for your DAW

Kuassa Rectifor offers high-gain guitar amp tones for your DAW and it launches at a great introductory price. Perfect for Rectifier-style gain tones.

Best free plug-ins this week: Explorer, Ambience Enhancer Lite and Quantize

This week’s roundup of free plug-ins includes a polyphonic synth, an ambience tool, and a lo-fi effect: Explorer, Ambience Enhancer Lite, and Quantize.

The new Dell XPS 13: a powerful and affordable mobile system

We check out the new 2022 Dell XPS 13. A compact and extremely lightweight laptop system with plenty of potential for non-Apple users.

Future Retro closes its doors after 25 years of synths

We were saddened to hear that Future Retro, the maker of the recent Vectra synthesizer, has decided to stop trading after 25 years in the business.

Harley Benton Double Pedal Series: Two effects in one compact pedal

The new Harley Benton Double Pedal Series brings you 6 new twin pedals each offering two effects each in a housing with a freely selectable order

Arturia Sound Explorers Collection Belledonne available now

Arturia Sound Explorers Collection Belledonne Edition contains all of the developer's virtual instruments and effects (DL or SSD).

UVI Dual Delay X: The ultimate delay for creative sound design?

UVI Dual Delay X sends your echoes on a journey through time and space with a host of creative features. Is this the ultimate sound designer's delay?

Samples of the week: Essential Bass, Electric Mint, Plankton, more

Samples of the week time! We report on 6 virtual basses from the collection of multi-instrumentalist Dan Dean and other good stuff.

Introducing the Beyerdynamic Free BYRD True wireless earbuds with ANC

We check out the new Beyerdynamic Free BYRD wireless active noise canceling earbuds, the company's first big move into consumer audio.

Review: GForce Oberheim SEM, the perfect emulation?

Endorsed by Tom Oberheim, the SEM from GForce Software brings the authentic and classic Oberheim monosynth sound to your DAW and desktop.

Wusik BITSQ8: Wave Morphable Sequencer Synth

BITSQ8 is a retro-infused 4-voice software synthesizer with morphable and sequenceable waveforms. The interface looks fabulous in an old CRT screen.

Schlappi Engineering: Three Body oscillating behemoth

The long-awaited Three Body complex oscillator is finally open for preorders. Let's take a peek at this monster of a triple-trouble VCO.

Catalinbread Callisto MKII revamped analogue chorus

Catalinbread's updated Callisto MKII analogue chorus. Classic modulation tones you would expect, plus more extreme settings that border on flanging

Sheaf Remoter: Stream audio to your phone directly from your DAW

The Remoter plug-in streams audio to your phone directly from your DAW – uncompressed and in real-time. Quickly check your mixes on your phone!

Midweek Modular: Hackable filters, complex wavefolding and mp3 playing

This week Neutral Labs wants us to stick things into a filter, Ebashi Audio has 2 channels of wave folding and we check out a CV-controlled mp3 player

t.akustik PET Mobile Wall: Room divider and absorber in one

The t.akustik PET Mobile Wall is a versatile, free-standing absorber for optimizing your studio, podcasting room, rehearsal space, and more.

Oversynth overcomplicates Dreadbox Nymphes with overlays

Oversynth has produced some overlays for the Dreadbox Nymphes that visualize all the features and parameters in a mind-bogglingly colourful way.

Toontrack TAKE IT EZ Summer Sale: up to 40% off!

Toontrack has its "TAKE IT EZ" summer sale with up to 40% taken off the prices of sounds and MIDI expansion packs.

Guitar Gear Gems: Way Huge 30th, Red Llama Overdrive, Steve Vai Hydra

Guitar Gear Gems celebrates 30 years of Way Huge and check out Steve Vai's European Inviolate tour rig

Audio Brewers ab Reverb: Versatile reverb for spatial audio

Audio Brewers ab Reverb is a versatile reverb plug-in that works in the stereo or Ambisonics domains to deliver immersive, spatial reverb effects.

Neutral Labs Scrat: Steiner-Parker filter with hackable resonance

Scrat features some patch wire points on the front for swapping out diodes, resistors and capacitors letting you hack into the resonance circuit.

Native Instruments Komplete 13 on sale at near 40% off

Native Instruments Komplete 13 bundles are on sale at nearly 40% off! The offers are available from our affiliate partner Thomann.

Best free plug-ins this week: Aether, ACM-3SA, and Organ

This week’s collection of free plug-ins includes two effects and a virtual organ (not just) for Linux users: Aether, ACM-3SA, and Organ.

Gear picks of Glastonbury 2022: What’s on our hit list?

With Glastonbury 2022 underway this past week, we take a look at some of the gear choices from the top acts appearing at the festival.