World Suite: UVI captures the planet in a virtual instument

Go travelling in UVI's massive World Suite instrument and delve into the planet's musical culture and heritage.

Flare offer more “revolutionary” ear protection with ISOLATE MiNi

Following their hugely successful ISOLATE campaign, Flare Audio are back with a new line of their ear protectors, the ISOLATE MiNi.

Black Cat OD-Fuzz Deluxe: Two for the price of one!

Based on an OP275 overdrive and Silicon / Germanium transistors for fuzz, this twin dirt box is vintage and fuzzy!

Audified deliver (yet another) new saturation tool, the U78 Saturator

That's right, it's not a spelling mistake: the U78 is one more saturation plug for your toolkits, and isn't Neumann-related in any way.

FLOWs: Algorithmic Loop Sequencer from Tim Exile

Immerse yourself in 5 years of loops from Tim Exile in FLOWs, the algorithmic loop sequencer - and it's completely free

Crazy new keyboard concept from Dodeka

Dodeka thinks music is hard, really very hard So hard they've had to invent their own system of notation and keyboard form factor. Is this nuts? (Spoiler - oh yes I think so).

FM Wave XR7: Draw your own waveforms FM synthesizer

Mystified by the FM Wave XR7 virtual synthesizer. G-Sonique should consider writing a manual or perhaps creating a demo video? Good presets though.

Extract samples and remix loops with Regroover Pro

Regroover Pro extracts drum parts and individual hits from impossible places and lets you remix your drum loops.

Amelia – Jet City’s long-awaited guitar amp – is here at last!

Jet City are at it again, bringing quality tube tones to the huddled masses - and the new Amelia looks promising...

Top 5 Hardware synthesizers of 2016 under £500

Which synthesizers have floated your boat this year? For under £500 I've found my Top 5 source of beeps, sweeps, bubbles and noises - how do they compare to your list?

Look inside a Roland TR-808 – in 3D!

Now you can impress your friends with your in-depth knowledge of the Roland TR-808 drum machine

Empress Effects party on with “10th Anniversary” Tremolo edition

Á rewnowned builder of Tremelo guitar effects, Empress boutique is celebrating its 10th Anniversary by releasing a very limited run of its first pedal design.

Is Spaceship Delay the best free delay plug-in ever?

Spaceship Delay crams a lot of functions and options into one free effect plug-in - and actually sounds good!

Pittsburgh Dynamic Impulse Filter: the new lowpass gate

The Dynamic Impulse Filter is a filter acting as an amplifier replicating the feel and sonic characteristics of classic Buchla percussive lowpass gate

Tegeler Audio get feature-heavy with Schwerkraftmaschine 3-in-1 compressor

Schwerkraftmaschine or 'Gravity Machine', has now landed and is available to order - is this the most advanced compressor we've seen this year?

Shotgun Blues: When slide guitar and target practice collide!

12-gauge Blues! Yes, it's a guitar and a shotgun, hailing from Indiana USA.

Ants! Analog modular desktop synthesizer on Kickstarter

Fancy investing in a cool desktop analog modular synth and helping it get into production? Meet ANTS! on Kickstarter.

Sonible release FREI:RAUM, a hat-trick of new EQs

This 'clever' new suite of EQ plug-ins, Frei:raum, contains Smart EQ, Proximity EQ and Entropy EQ, to control "spectral balance, spaciousness and tonality".

TouchKeys brings MPE to any piano keyboard

Forget ROLI, Linnstrument or the K-Board Pro 4 - TouchKeys will retrofit your existing MIDI keyboard into an MPE controller

Random Groove Generator Pro: Accidental beats

Decent step sequencers are sorely missing from most DAWs and Random Groove Generator Pro thinks it might have the answer for Ableton Live

Free Filterjam plug-in for creative multi-band filtering

AudioThing has released Filterjam, which splits and recombines your input and filters the heck out of it. And it's free.

Cubase 9 launched: Steinberg releases major updates for Pro, Artist and Elements

Version 9 of Cubase is here and has fulfilled many a feature request with cool stuff, but have they really innovated?

Will MOTU’s new 624 and 8A raise the bar for compact interfaces?

MOTU have announced the availability of the 624 and 8A audio interfaces. Equipped with Thunderbolt, USB3 and AVB, there's a lot packed into these half-rack units.

DAW Essentials Collection: new plug-ins from Tracktion

The workhorse plug-ins in Tracktions DAW Essentials Collection will keep you working with the same sound whatever DAW you use