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.
CEDAR Audio, a byword for audio restoration, releases Voxis, a voice isolator built on a deep neural network. With latency under 10 ms, it goes after background noise at front of house, on live capture and in event broadcast, for around 269 dollars.
Best known for high-end soft synths, u-he steps into hardware for the first time with MELT, a fully analog 14 HP Eurorack filter. First shown as a prototype at Superbooth 22, it finally lands at around 299 euros, with a Core Temperature knob that runs the tone from velvet to full-blown distortion.
German manufacturer DHD is announcing a third-generation audio mixing console for IBC 2026: modular, IP-controlled and backward-compatible with the processing cores it has deployed since 2020. A bet on longevity rather than rupture.
Spotted on pre-order at around $/€109 before any official announcement, the Behringer Dice 1U2 opens a new USB-C interface line. Two ins, two outs, 24-bit/192 kHz, a Midas preamp and a chassis that openly eyes the Scarlett.
Bitwig ships 6.1, free with an active Upgrade Plan. At its heart, a rebuilt Sampler: a new slicing engine and two new play modes, Spectral (time-stretching) and Fragments (granular, up to 256 grains per voice).
Arturia launches Pure SUB, a software synth entirely devoted to bass. Three independent stages (Sub, Harmonics, Texture) merge at the filter, then a Sub Processor shapes the low end. $/€49 intro.
A phone guest who hears themselves echo back, a remote that spirals into feedback: nine times out of ten, the missing piece is a mix-minus. Here is what this ‘N-1’ feed is, why it becomes essential the moment a remote source enters your mix, and how to wire it cleanly on a console as well as on a small podcast mixer.
sonible packs eight processors — EQ, compressor, gate, de-harsher, input rider, saturation, clipper and auto leveling — into a single channel strip driven by one shared analysis. And crucially, its instances talk to each other across the whole session. 99 USD/EUR at launch.
SOMA Laboratory ships the Enigma, a synthesizer with no keyboard and no conventional controller: you play it by placing and moving metallic objects on a sensing surface. Shown as a prototype, it is now in production at 680 EUR.
Delay is one of the simplest effects to understand and one of the easiest to misuse. Echo types, the settings that matter, tempo sync, placement in the chain and the pitfalls to avoid: here’s how to use delay to add depth to a mix without cluttering it.