After 20+ years in professional audio: live sound engineering, studio technical direction (Deep Forest, Pierre Jacquot), head of digital marketing at Playback.fr. A first-hand witness to the analog-to-digital shift, I track the whole audio landscape and break it down here — no fluff.
Long the quiet favourite of engineers who care about sonic neutrality, Samplitude now officially sits inside the Boris FX catalogue. The 2026 release keeps its hybrid audio engine and adds a GPU-accelerated video engine, network control and an immersive Suite edition.
The patch is the invisible skeleton of a live show. Analogue snake, digital stagebox, splits, channel naming, redundancy: here’s how to connect stage to console cleanly, and why a good patch saves your night.
Record a sound, map it across a keyboard, chop it into slices, stretch it without changing its pitch: here’s how a sampler works, from playing a one-shot to chopping a break, and the choices that make the groove.
The equaliser is the most-used and most-misunderstood tool in mixing. Filters, bells, shelves, Q, phase: here’s how an EQ actually works, and how to use it to correct and shape without wrecking the sound.
Telos Alliance adds an autonomous mixing engine, CastCompanion, to its Jünger Audio flexAI platform. An AI reads live voices while Jünger’s deterministic algorithms do the processing, bundling automixing, denoising, voice enhancement and EBU R128 S4 loudness control.
Sample rate, bit depth, A/D-D/A conversion: this guide untangles what sample rate and bit depth actually govern, why 24-bit serves headroom rather than your ears, and which setting to choose without chasing the biggest number.
The step sequencer is the founding block of the electronic groove. Velocity, gate, swing, probability, polyrhythm, CV/Gate: here is how it really works, and how to get more out of it than a mechanical loop.
At IBC 2026, Calrec expands ImPulseV, its virtualised audio mixing engine, with 96- and 140-path configurations and short-term licences (one year, twelve weeks, four weeks). Broadcast horsepower is now sized to the job, not to the purchase.
SSL squeezes its entire System T into a sixteen-fader desktop package that ships in two or three flight cases under 23 kilos. Same Tempest engine, Dante, AES67 and ST 2110: top-tier IP console power finally goes on tour.
sonible packs eight processors — EQ, compression, de-harshing, saturation, leveling — into a single strip whose instances talk across the entire session. A genuine bet on mix assistance, to be judged on the result.