Acon Digital Mastering Suite: An affordable pack of essential mastering tools

Designed for signal transparency and with rather simplified user interfaces, these plug-ins obviously aren't for fans of thick, warm vintage sounds. Rather, they fully embrace the clinical sound of digital.

Sculpt noise into form with Noize, a sleek and creative noise generator

Noize is a noise-generating plug-in that adapts itself in real time to sound input and can be creatively shaped for a tasteful result. It includes all five noise types known to mankind!

Deal: grab Native Instruments’ Crush Pack + Mod Pack for USD 70 until Nov 4

NI is giving us an exceptional offer - buy the Crush Pack + Mod Pack effects bundle for the price of either one. The offer is valid until Nov 4, giving you enough time to come up with those 70 bucks!

Behringer drops prices on gear, rekindles Thomann partnership

Consumer technology has its Samsung, soft drinks have their Coca-Cola, enterprise computing has its Microsoft... and, in the very near future, if not already, music has its Behringer.

Catalinbread NiCompressor pedal recreates a classic 1970s compressor

The NiCompressor is based on is the 70s Loco Box ‘The Choker’ and.... OK, let's cut to the chase: Here's why anyone looking for a quality compressor pedal should check this one out.

GS Apollo 1 Analog Monosynth ready for liftoff

Launching from Argentina is the Apollo 1 from GS Music - a straightforward desktop analog monosynth with some hidden MIDI capabilities and a desire to be in a metal band.

Dimebag’s Cowboys From Hell rig modelled by IK Multimedia

Pantera's late guitarist used solid-state Randall amplifiers to craft the hard-hitting guitar tones on Cowboys From Hell. IK Multimedia's new Dimebag Darrell CFH bundle models amps and effects from DD's rig.

UVI Plate goes above and beyond that classic plate reverb sound

UVI enters the plate reverb market with, er, Plate, a "custom-shop" virtual electro-mechanical reverb with a configurable design and control over aspects such as metal type, plate size and more.

MXR Carbon Copy 10th Anniversary Edition: The ‘silver fox’ of delay pedals?

The MXR Carbon Copy is getting a snazzy new silver paint job and an aluminium housing for 2018, ten years after it was introduced. Just don't expect any sonic tweaks or upgrades.

Women account for 50% of new guitarists, says Fender

Fender says that women now account for half of new guitarists picking up the instrument for the first time. Could the likes of pop icons Taylor Swift and rock legends like Nita Strauss be the cause?

The 7-year wait is over: NI Kontakt 6 has landed with new instruments and effects

Kontakt 6 brings the world's favorite sampler up to scratch and has enough new content to warrant an upgrade from the almost 7-year old Kontakt 5 engine.

Dark Arcade: earthy and cybernetic low cost hybrid hardware synthesizer

Wave blending digital oscillators running 4 voices through an analog filter, VCA and envelope and a Karplus-Strong synthesis mode the Dark Arcade has a lot of cool things to play with for only $120.

Sequential Prophet XL revealed in magazine review of Prophet X

The as yet unannounced Prophet XL will have a 76 keyed piano-style keyboard and 32 voice polyphony along with other new features. The voice expansion and features will also be an update for the Prophet X.

Grayscale’s Supercell Eurorack module breathes new life into Clouds

We've been without Mutable Instruments Clouds for a year now so can the Grayscale Supercell expanded reboot fill the granular and texture shaped hole in your Eurorack?

AES 2018: TC Electronic TC8210-DT & TC1210-DT bite-sized hardware/software combos

The TC8210-DT reverb and TC1210 spatial expander are both small-format units which honor the original hardware's layout, modernizing it for the studios and producers of today.

JX-3P now available as a software synthesizer in Roland’s Cloud

The 1980's classic preset polyphonic synthesizer, the JX-3P has arrived in the RolandCloud via its Plug-Out experience with the System-8. Comes with the iconic soundset and the PG-200 programmer for deeper ...

DiMarzio Richie Kotzen signature Strat replacement pickguard available at last!

Want some bona fide Richie Kotzen tones but can't be bothered tracking down one of those rare Kotzen signature Strats? DiMarzio have a proposition for you that's surprisingly affordable.

Behringer approve the PRO-1 for production and price it at $299

The Behringer Pro-1 based upon the Sequential Circuits Pro-One monosynth is good to go! It's been signed off and is heading for mass production. No news on availability but the price has been pegged at $299.

AES 2018: Waves Abbey Road TG Mastering Chain brings the utmost in vintage mastering

Created with Abbey Road Studios, this is a modular mastering chain which recreates the EMI TG12410's mastering processors, in use at the legendary facility's mastering suites since the early '70s right to this ...

AES 2018: Acustica Audio team up with Grammy producer Greg Wells for vintage comp

At AES 2018, plug-in developer Acustica Audio and producer Greg Wells revealed their latest creation: the 'El Rey', a virtual analogue Greg Wells signature compressor plug-in that certainly looks the part.

Carr Amps Telstar combo amplifier: 17 Watts of organic boutique vintage tone

The Telstar combo uses a 6L6 and EL84 in a push-pull Class A circuit. With two different voicings and plenty of rich, vintage tones, could this be all the boutique amp you'll ever need?

AES 2018: iZotope Nectar 3 automates vocal production with machine learning

Improvements and changes are aplenty, starting with an user interface facelift and moving through five new modules and an AI-powered assistant. Coming next month, N3 will be a free upgrade if you purchase N2 ...

AES 2018: SSL FlexVerb is a brand new reverb plug-in coming in SSL Native v6.1

SSL describes FlexVerb as a versatile reverb that's intuitive. Of note is the split early-late reflection interface, which lets you dial in the natural body and tone of different early room reflections.

Roland VT-4 Voice Processor messes with your voice

Sound like a robot, sing through a megaphone, vocode and harmonise your voice with MIDI controlled chords. The Roland VT-4 is a one-stop vocal messing machine.