212 Results for "production"

The best music production books for 2020

2020 is here - now's the time to sharpen up your music production skills! Whatever genre you're into, these books will help you improve how you produce, mix and master music and audio.

Warm Audio BUS-COMP: all the mix glue you can get for USD 699

Manufacturer Warm Audio roars into 2020 with a no-bull replica of the fabled Oxfordshire stereo bus compressor at a price that will make its competitors take note.

Celestial, a FREE Christmas gift sound design plug-in by Acustica

A free effect plug-in from a top-tier manufacturer - what's not to like?!? Celestial is a creative sound design plug-in with a load of interesting effects and textures. Merry Christmas, Acustica!

Loupedeck CT: A compact alternative to Ableton Push?

Loupedeck CT isn't as full-fledged as Ableton Push, but it's fairly unique and discovering opportunities to put its controls into action should be a rewarding endeavour.

iZotope releases Ozone 9 with all-new mixing and mastering goodies

iZotope dropped Ozone 9, introducing the typical improvements and forward-looking technologies found in a major Ozone release. There's a new bass processor, instrument level editing, and plenty more.

Best free plug-ins this week: SQ8ROM, SevenDelay and KLANG

This week's free plug-ins let you delve into the vintage glory of the Ensoniq SQ80, create smooth delays with SevenDelay and get experimental with the KLANG series from Cinematique Instruments.

Tactical audio mangling with the Tactical Nuke plug-in by 3 Sigma Audio

Tactical Nuke is a wavetable device capable of both analog and digital-sounding distortion. There are 512 wavetables included, along with the ability to import your own.

Craig’s Production Tips #5: How To Spice Up Your Electronic Snare!

Your electronic snare sounding dead and lifeless? Try these simple tricks to liven up your snare sounds - after all, it's one of the most important elements in any song or production.

How to choose the best iPad for music production in 2019

The new USD 329 iPad is the nicest and most capable the entry-level iPad has ever been. Is this, however, the one to get for iOS music making? Let's investigate...

SoundForge 13 Pro Suite gears up MAGIX’s audio editor for professionals

SoundForge 13 Pro Suite is here with a slew of upgrades and enhancements, including cosmetic touch-ups, new effects, ARA 2 support, and many tools aimed at professional audio editing and restoration.

13-inch Apple MacBook Pro gets quad-core CPU, loses function keys

Starting at USD 1299, the 13-inch MBP is now powered by an 8th-generation 1.4GHz Core i5 or 1.7GHz Core i7 processor and comes with a TrueTone Retina display, 8GB of RAM, and 128GB of SSD storage.

Unfiltered Audio TRIAD: modular multi-band FX for advanced users

TRIAD lets you apply custom effects chains, made of over 40 individual effects each, to three separate frequency bands. The effects are inter-connected in a modular fashion.

Best free plug-ins this week: A chorus, soundscapes and four free synths

Chief among the freebies is a pack of four full-fledged software synths from developer TrapDoor Audio. It will load you up with synth sounds for days and weeks to come!

Best free plug-ins this week: brass synth, guitar amps and more

Here's a sampling of all the great freeware music production tools which appeared last week, such as a brass machine, a guitar amp and effects suite, sampled music boxes, and a nifty step sequencer.

UAD 9.9 brings Capitol Records’ reverb chambers to you DAW

In addition to an updated Tube-Tech CL-1B MKII compressor, version 9.9 introduces a major addition to the line-up - Capitol Chambers. Not cheap, but there are some special sounds on offer here.

Studio One 4.5 update brings dozens of user-requested changes

PreSonus has released version 4.5 of its popular Studio One DAW with over 70 changes and additions, said to be mostly user-requested, along with some under-the-hood work to reduce CPU load.

Audiaire Nuxx has 55 lanes worth of effects automation

Nuxx is a multi-FX processor with 30 types of effects and dedicated effects parameter sequencer. Oh, and real-time effects parameter automation over 55 parameter sequencing lanes. Phew.

Avid releases Pro Tools 2019 with macOS Mojave support and more tracks

Avid has announced that Pro Tools 2019 is now available. The new version comes with higher track counts, workflow improvements and macOS Mojave compatibility.

Sound Devices unveils Scorpio portable high-end mixer/recorder

Scorpio, as it's called, stands for a portable 32-channel, 36-track mixer-recorder that's equipped with 16 mic/line preamps and multiple additional inputs and outputs.

iZotope cures its GAS for reverb with Exponential Audio acquisition

Both brands are mainstays in music, film, and game audio, so I'd like to say their merger is sensible and promising! iZotope is also taking 30% off all Exponential Audio products and bundles.

Addictive Drums creator readies XO random beatmaker & pattern generator

XLN Audio, the creators of Addictive Drums, announced XO - a beatmaker and sample explorer which fuses together sounds from sampling services like Splice, Beatport, and Loopmasters

Genelec Aural ID tech promises acoustically accurate headphone monitoring

"Virtual Earality", anyone? Genelec's Aural ID tech promises elaborate hearing compensation that takes into account the unique acoustical properties of your hearing anatomy. The next big thing?

Tracktion releases Waveform 10 with over 60 new plug-ins, workflow enhancements

Leading additions in version10 include the Actions Panel meant for faster work, flexible track grouping, and track editor window. Furthermore, Waveform 10 ships with no less than 62 plug-ins.

PMC Audio IB2S-AII single and dual cabinet monitors shipping from March

Pro audio manufacturer PMC has launched its new IB2S-AII range of active studio monitors. It covers the single cabinet IB2S-AII; and the IB2S XBD-AII twin cabinet reference monitors. With both analog and ...