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Software instruments, effects and mixing plugins – here’s everything fresh in the plugin marketplace this week. The post The best new music plugins this week, f…
→ ContinueDreamtonics has launched Instrument X, a neural acoustics platform for creating orchestral instrument performances from notation and MIDI-style input. The new s…
→ ContinueDreamtonics has announced Instrument X, a new instrument platform that replaces sample-based orchestral libraries with real-time neural acoustic modelling. Aime…
→ ContinueMFKNE has released PUNCHDUST, a free character dynamics plugin that combines transient shaping, a reactive lo-fi texture effect, and upward compression. Honestl…
→ Continuesonible has released smart:chain, an intelligent channel strip that connects seven processors through one shared analysis and extends that same thinking across …
→ ContinueFrom Samplesonics comes OpenWav Media Browser, a free sample management system for macOS, Windows, and Linux. I’ve always planned to use sample library or…
→ ContinueConjureDSP has released ConjureAlign, a free and open-source plugin that automatically time-aligns two microphones recording the same source. When you record so…
→ ContinueFeelYourSound has launched Modern Strings, an expansion pack for its SongEngine MIDI generator plug-in. The expansion adds 101 presets designed to create string…
→ ContinueNoise Trip has released Drive Collection, a new plugin that brings 16 classic, modern, and rare guitar overdrive circuits to macOS and Windows. This is the debu…
→ ContinueWhether it’s a modest music production, or mega mix for picture, renaming clips is an everyday essential that can help mix engineers stay on top of their media.…
→ ContinueDeveloper Jeesonic has released a free loudness meter for macOS and Windows, called Metering Cockpit. Loudness meters or analysers are rarely the first thing on…
→ ContinueLearn how dithering can help enhance the sound of your digital audio, despite the fact that it adds noise to the waveform.…
→ ContinueApple today announced refreshed Mac Studio and Mac mini lineups, adding two new chips: the M6 base model and the M5 Ultra. Both machines target anyone running d…
→ ContinueKrotos has published a public roadmap for Krotos Studio, laying out in a colour-coded timeline what it's shipped, what's in active development, and what's commi…
→ ContinueThis is why we use EQ, and what the differences are between different EQ types. The post What is EQ in music production and mixing? appeared first on MusicTech …
→ ContinueCore Sampler was developed by film composer Nico Borromeo, who says he was “tired of turning musical ideas into timeline and audio-clip work.” The post Core Sam…
→ ContinueLimited-edition Major V headphones, a purple-on-black Emberton III Bluetooth speaker and the pièce de résistance of the range, a JMH Studio guitar amp, are up f…
→ Continueprod. Shane, a K-pop producer based in Korea, has released four free one-knob effect plugins in the Shane Is series: Shane Is Dead, Shane Is In Love, Shane Is S…
→ ContinueSong Cage has launched Song Cage Plugin, a songwriting tool for AU and VST3 hosts developed by Song Cage, a product of Digital Candy LLC. The plugin places lyri…
→ ContinueMonarch Labs Collective has launched Dynik, a broadcast automatic gain control plugin designed for speech-based audio. The plugin is intended for voiceover, pod…
→ Continuereitzwerk has launched CreakBox V2, a 64-bit VST3 instrument for Windows. Developed by Frank Reitz under the reitzwerk name, the instrument combines acid-orient…
→ ContinueSampleRoll has launched shft., a rhythmic multi-effect plugin for macOS designed to transform loops, drums, melodies and other incoming audio. The plugin combin…
→ Continueorph has launched MONOCHORD, a chord instrument and harmony workstation for macOS and Windows. The software combines an internal sound library with chord voicin…
→ ContinueFeelYourSound has launched Modern Strings, a new MIDI generator expansion for its SongEngine plug-in. The expansion adds 101 presets designed to create string-b…
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