Acustica Audio releases Gold 4, adds another vintage console EQ

Acustica has released Gold 4. The updated plug-in suite and channel strip now includes an additional vintage console EQ and runs on Acustica's latest Core 16 engine.

Reason Studios Friktion: Modeled strings for bowing and plucking in Reason

Reason Studios has a new physical modelling synthesizer called Friktion which will bring some wonderfully authentic string sounds to Reason by bow, pluck, vibrato and resonating bodies.

The new Fender Tim Armstrong Anniversary Hellcat: a great little songwriter with attitude!

Tim Armstrong and Fender are celebrating a decade of collaborations with the new Anniversary Hellcat acoustic model, a great looking songwriting guitar with plenty of attitude!

LEAK: Arturia to release MicroFreak Vocoder!

Wow! According to a few leaks, Arturia is just about to announce an exciting expansion to its MicroFreak line: MicroFreak Vocoder! Here's what we know so far.

Audified VocalMint Compressor: One knob, three stages of compression

Audified's new VocalMint Compressor promises to make your vocal tracks shine without getting in the way. It offers three stages of compression, all controlled by just one big knob.

Beatmaker HYPE: UJam’s new all-in-one toolkit for EDM anthems

Beatmaker HYPE is the latest plugin from UJam aimed at EDM and Progressive House. The quickest way to make EDM Bangers? Let's see what the HYPE is all about...

Is the Frederic Effects Blue Monarch the best Blues Breaker pedal of the year?

Is the Blue Monarch from Frederic Effects the best Blues Breaker overdrive pedal yet? If so, could the Analogman King Of Tone finally have met its match?

Future Sound Systems MTX8: Synthi-style Pin Matrix router for audio and CV

The MTX8 is 8 inputs and 8 outputs routed to each other via a classic pin matrix like those found on EMS Synthi. This runs on your desktop, routes audio and CV and is full of FSS flair and distortion.

Arturia MicroFreak gets a Momo software editor and random sound generator

Momo works his magic on the Arturia MicroFreak to offer up a VST plugin and standalone editor that reveals all the editable parameters and gives you full integration with your DAW.

MOK Waverazor 2.5 update with added PluginGuru Unify

The mad MOK Waverazor experimental virtual synthesizer gets a big chunk of an update plus a library of new patches via the PluginGuru Unify plug-in host platform. 

LEAK Fender Troy Van Leeuwen Jazzmaster in Copper Age

A new Fender Troy Van Leeuwen Jazzmaster has been leaked online in a Copper Age finish and a stunning looking maple bound fretboard with black block inlays.

Best Sample Packs This Week: Tropical heat, sunset soul, modern drums, hard techno

This week's A-gtade sample content includes sultry tropical sounds, sunset-soaked soul loops, a drum pack played by Miles McPherson, and everything you need to create hard techno tracks.

Modular Meets Leeds 2020 Online Edition

Modular guru DivKid hosts an online edition of the annual Leeds Modular Meets this Sunday 23rd August where there will be performances, new music, gear and teacakes.

GYRINX VCF: a filter pulled from the heart of the Synton SYRINX

GYRINX is a painstakingly realized design informed by the known original topology of incomplete schematics, datasheets, and designs from other synths of the era of the Synton SYRINX.

Learn Sound and Synthesis online with Sarah Belle Reid

Sarah Belle Reid is a modular synthesizer musician who plays the trumpet and builds electroacoustic instruments and controllers and is offering an online course called "Learn Sound and Synthesis".

PRS Floating Guitar Stand: A giant banana hanger for your guitar?

The new PRS Floating Guitar Stand was designed to provide a stable and safe place to hang your guitar. Is it just us or does it look like a banana hanger on steroids?

Is Allen & Heath poised to buy Traktor from Native Instruments?

Is Allen&Heath about to buy Traktor from troubled Native Instruments? Why should famed audio brand A&H buy a DJ software brand? Global domination of the DJ market? We give you our thoughts...

W.A. Production Vocal Cleaner: An all-in-one vocal processing plug-in

Vocal Cleaner is a collection of essential vocal processing tools which includes de-essing, de-noising, gating, EQ-ing and compression - among other things such as algorithms working behind scenes.

Spherator FM: interplay of harmonic and inharmonic waves in a 4-operator FM VSTi

From Syntheway comes Spherator FM which is packed with 4-operators worth of Frequency Modulation for diverse soundscapes, atmospheric textures and clanging noises.

Legendary programmer Hermann Seib joins the Behringer Wave Synthesizer Development Team

Hermann Seib has worked with PPG synthesizers for decades building computer interfaces, emulating them in software and helping Wolfgang Palm develop his PPG software instruments.

Quadrivium Orbital Synthesizer uses the moons of Jupiter as modulation sources

In fact, it uses the orbital data of 12 moons from 4 different planets to modulate the synthesizer parameters of the forthcoming Quadrivium virtual synth and it can modulate your synths too!

Cosmotronic COSMIX: 8-channel stereo Eurorack mixer with aural enhancing super powers

It's good to have your aurals enhanced and the COSMIX does this over 8 channels of stereo mixing with some analogue overdrive and dual-band maximizing.

Korg announces the KROME EX CU synth workstation with a copper finish

The Korg KROME EX CU is a limited edition of the synth workstation that looks like it's been dipped in copper. If the regular version seems boring to you, here's your chance to turn up the bling!

New generation Korg Volca Sample 2 with more memory, USB and more

Korg updates its popular Volca Sample box of sample sequencing to v2 with a load more memory, new sounds, better connectivity and a few workflow tweaks.