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.
Mystic 2 packs three tube preamps, a four-band EQ and an opto limiter into a single plug-in. The new part is NOVA, a hybrid modelling approach that marries Volterra kernels with neural networks.
The TempoKEY K32 Play tucks a sound module, a battery and a speaker into a compact MIDI controller. The pitch: make music anywhere, laptop-free, for under $150.
RCF makes the EVOX V15 official, a new pinnacle in its range of portable active…
Jamstik has launched Loon, a software instrument that stacks three fully independent sound layers — virtual analog, four-operator FM, multisamples and filters — inside a single patch. Aimed as much at MIDI guitarists as at MPE keyboard players, it leans on playing expression as hard as it does on sound design. Launch price: $49.99 (rising to $99.99), and free for anyone who owns a Jamstik MIDI guitar.
Harrison Audio is releasing Mixbus 12, a new version of its workstation built around the…
reFX, the company behind Nexus, is stepping into synthesis for the first time with Rippler, a physical modeling synthesizer. It’s the commercial version of a much-loved open-source plug-in, now beefed up with two wavefolding oscillators and multimode filters.
Native Instruments just dropped a synth dedicated to the supersaw. Time to sort the field: eight plugins — two free, six paid — that deliver that wall of detuned saws, ranked in honest families by what they actually do best.
Eventide had left its H9 untouched for a long time. The brand is correcting that…
Isolating the vocals, bass or drums from an already-mixed song has never been this accessible. Here are eight stem-separation tools, free and paid, sorted honestly by what they can truly do — from the real SpectraLayers 13 equivalent to the one-click separator.
Empower Tribe, owner of Behringer and TC Electronic, tried to enforce a patent on polyphonic tuning. A US judge dismissed its case against Boss with prejudice, ruling the patent too abstract. Here’s why the fight matters well beyond a tuner pedal.