ESI planet 22c: Compact Dante audio interface with high-quality converters

ESI has announced the planet 22c Dante audio interface. With 2 inputs and outputs, it's designed as a portable solution for expanding your audio network.

Steinberg releases Cubase 12 with Apple Silicon support and more

Steinberg has released Cubase 12. The new version of the DAW comes with Apple Silicon support, dongle-free licensing and a long list of improvements.

End of an era: Musikmesse Frankfurt is cancelled for good

After years of decline, the decision seemed inevitable: The annual Musikmesse trade show in Frankfurt won't return in 2022 and ever again.

Dean Guitars Thoroughbred Select Floyd Quilt Maple Natural Black Burst

This Dean Guitars Thoroughbred Select Floyd Quilt Maple Natural Black Burst offers a mix of traditional and modern specifications that are perfect for rocking out with

Squarp Instruments Hapax: Sequencer, studio hub, dawless controller

Squarp Instruments has revealed Hapax a standalone hardware sequencer with a 16x8 button array that will run your whole show.

Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 5 is here, with 12th-gen Intel CPUs

We check out the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 5, launched at MWC 2022. This beast of a laptop could become a worthy mobile workstation!

GS-DSP Magic Delay: multi-curve spectral delay with built-in modulation

Magic Delay lets you separate delay times per frequency, which means controlling and modulating potentially tens of thousands of delay times.

March Mastering Month: Softube Weiss plug-ins up to 55% off!

Plugin Boutique is taking up to 55% off Weiss plug-ins and up to 35% off the Weiss EQ1 plug-in, the Weiss Complete Collection, and upgrades.

Trace Elliot TE-1200: A 1200 Watt feature packed Bass Monster

This new 1200 Watt, TE-1200 bass head looks like a return to greatness for the once great brand. Is Trace Elliot back in the business of making pro gear?

ThorpyFX Boneyard Fuzz – The ultimate Tonebender?

The new ThorpyFX Boneyard Fuzz offers all the classic Tonebender circuits in one compact pedal, using germanium transistors and high end components throughout

Triple Octave Manipulator – an octave fuzz for The Fall Of Troy’s Thomas Erak

The Fall Of Troy’s Thomas Erak and CMC Guitars And Effects announce the new all-analogue Triple Octave Manipulator, with four selectable wave shapes.

Review: Arturia Efx FRAGMENTS frees granular effects from obscurity

With Efx FRAGMENTS, Arturia applies the same forces of innovation behind its PIGMENTS synthesizer to a granular effects plug-in.

API introduces the 3122V 2-channel microphone preamp

API has announced the 3122V microphone preamp. The 3122V is a 2-channel preamp based on the same circuit design as the 4-channel 3124V and the 512V/512c.

What happened at the Genelec Smart IP Global Launch Event

Aimed at A/V installation, Genelec brings the new 4410A speaker to the Smart IP range and the Smart IP mobile app for wireless control.

Sinevibes Skew: forward-thinking backwards audio plug-in

Skew plays audio backwards while letting you tweak parameters such as buffer size, curve type, effect intensity, crossfade and output volume.

Modal Electronics COBALT5S: Ultra-portable 5-voice virtual analogue synthesizer

Made from the same stuff as the COBALT8 but compact and portable. With 40 complex algorithms and 8 oscillators per voice, COBALT5S could be the synth to take everywhere.

McDSP EC-300 Echo Collection is FREE for a limited time

The EC-300 from McDSP offers three delay types (Magnetic, Digital, and Analog) capable of many different echo, delay, and chorus effects.

Eventide Anthology XII: 10 new effects plug-ins and a huge sale (60% off)

Anthology XII comes in at 33 Eventide plug-ins and USD 799 sale price (down from USD 1999 regular). There are upgrade prices as well!

Erica Synths to donate income to help humanitarian aid agencies in Ukraine

Erica Synths wishes to support the people of Ukraine by donating all of its income from a range of products so you can buy cool stuff and help Ukraine at the same time.

Meet Tamago, a decentralized streaming platform focussed on creators

Tamago's beta version launches later this month, an NFT-focused streaming solution for artists by artists. Let's take a closer look!

Polyphonic Pressure Generator: Polyphonic aftertouch from a regular keyboard

Polyphonic Pressure Generator (PPG) is a software utility from Tim Shoebridge that enables regular MIDI keyboards to generate polyphonic aftertouch - this could be huge!

Saturn: Behringer mini-synth takes on the Jupiter

Saturn is the third mini-synth in as many days and is a fascinating take on the Roland Jupiter-8. This one is looking a bit tastier.

PSP Impressor: heir to MixPressor brings GUI refresh and modern features

Impressor offers a new user interface and other significant updates like feed-backward compression, 16x oversampling, and improved envelopes.

New 1U/3U modules from Xodes for switching, randomising and logic

A bumper selection of new utility modules from Xodes in both 3U and 1U versions that can bring all sorts of usefulness to your rack.