Unknown Devices Raiju: Percussive synth sent to bring punishment

Raiju combines a complex digital oscillator, an ADSR envelope and an analogue lowpass gate to produce thunderbolts and lightning in percussive form.

Sonible Summer Sale: up to 50% off smart plug-ins

Sonible summer sale lasts until July 5 and covers all Sonible plug-ins, such as smart:EQ 3, smart:comp, smart:reverb, and more.

Frequency Central Looking Glass: smaller better featured matrix mixer

Following on from Frequency Central's Wonderland we now have Looking Glass which runs with the same idea in a more compact and enlightening form.

Novum Granular Synthesizer plug-in by Dawesome released by Tracktion

Novum is a granular synth which sounds interesting and is worth a try. It's also simple and easy to operate, which makes it more enjoyable.

Best free plug-ins this week: Deelay, TaraLead and BassMatrix

In this week's collection of free plug-ins: a versatile delay with plenty of features, an extreme distortion plug-in, and a 303-style bassline synth.

MicroDexed: an 80s home studio in a Teensy box

Floyd Steinberg is at it again with MicroDexed which offers 2 DX7s, a VA synth, drum computer, piano, audio tracker and effects in one tiny box.

Charvel Pro-Mod Style 1 – Four new models coming

Charvel's Pro-Mod Style 1 is getting four new models and they are all due a little later this year. Will this year's models make your want list?

ADDAC System ADDAC809: CV operated Chain Router and effects send

ADDAC809 is a dynamic CV-operated I/O router for audio or CV to find paths through 2 different chains before finding its way to a destination.

Roland JUPITER-4: Legendary synth now as a plug-in/plug-out emulation

Roland has announced the classically chunky and Compuphonic JUPITER-4 as an ACB modelled VST plugin or plug it out on your SYSTEM-8.

Heavyocity Summer Sale: up to 75% off instruments, sounds, and effects

Heavyocity products are offered at discounts of up to 75% off until July 15, 2022. These are some of the hardest-hitting sounds I ever heard!

Gibson Everly Brothers SJ-200 ultra limited run announced

The Gibson Everly Brothers SJ-200 is based on Don and Phil Everly's trademark instrument with a dual pickguard, and is a highly limited run.

TC Electronic SCF Gold SE Chorus/Flanger: Shiny Gold limited run

The TC Electronic SCF Gold SE Chorus/Flanger is a limited run of the classic analogue bucket brigade modulation pedal that kick-started the company.

Slate Digital FG-DS 902: dbx 902 De-Esser Emulation for your DAW

The Slate FG-DS plug-in brings the classic dbx 902 de-esser to the Virtual Mix Rack and your DAW – with a couple of additions for more versatility.

Arturia FX Collection 3 with four added effects, feature updates

Arturia FX Collection 3 is out with 4 additional effects and plenty of feature updates such as oversampling, A/B presets, and fresh GUIs.

Samples of the week: MEGA Sampler, Resonate, ZX Spectrum, Freebies

Samples of the week is here with products by Plugin Alliance, Spitfire Audio, Soundpaint, BeatSkillz, Heavyocity and others!

CLAP: new plug-in format officially presented by U-He and Bitwig

CLAP is an open-source plug-in format promising several solutions to some weak spots of current VST, AU, and AAX formats.

Learn Metallica, the band shows how to play their songs with Yousician

Learn Metallica songs with the band using AI technology. See the songs played exactly how James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett play them

Chase Bliss Generation Loss MKII: 2-in-1 stereo magnetiser

The Generation Loss MKII is the first Chase Bliss pedal made with Tom Cooper formerly of CooperFX. The first effect since they went direct to customer

Charvel Jim Root San Dimas

The Charvel Jim Root San Dimas we saw prototypes of in 2021 now has an official release and they look pretty stunning in black and white finishes.

EVH Striped Series ’78 Eruption, Wolfgangs and Limited Edition 5150

EVH has teased the new Striped Series '78 Eruption, two new Wolfgangs and a Limited Edition 5150 model, all due later this year

Beetronics Zzombee Filtremulator a boutique analogue multi effect

Beetronics Zzombee Filtremulator combines Filter, Wah, LFO, Tremolo, Volume Swells, Drive, Fuzz, Low Octave and more.

Fender American Acoustasonic All-Mahogany

The American Acoustasonic All-Mahogany Telecaster and Jazzmaster: Completely made of mahogany, made in USA and each in Natural and Bourbon Burst.

Electro-Harmonix String9: Synth string orchestra emulation

The EHX String9 turns your guitar into a synthesized orchestra and comes with 9 classic preset synth string sounds to play with

Fender Mustang LT40S & Pro Junior IV SE amps released

Fender Mustang LT40S Modeling Amp and the limited Pro Junior IV SE tube combo. Two new smaller amps announced by the Californian brand.