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.
In broadcast, a peak meter tells you nothing about perceived volume. Loudness, measured in LUFS and framed by standards like EBU R128, has become the way to level radio, TV and streaming programmes. This guide explains what these standards measure, why they exist, and how to actually use them.
1010music went back to the drawing board for its cult sampler. The blackbox 2 keeps the pocket form factor but doubles the processing power, moves to a 4-inch touchscreen, adds internal battery power and a brand-new granular engine. Available now at $649 / £579.
On Bastille Day, Europe’s largest open-air classical concert was captured at the Champ-de-Mars on a fully redundant audio-over-IP infrastructure. Radio France built front-of-house, monitoring and international distribution around Lawo mc²56 consoles and a doubled A__UHD Core, over RAVENNA.
Pittsburgh Modular is teasing the return of its most beloved synth voice. The Lifeforms SV-2 swaps its Eurorack ancestor’s rack format for a full keyboard, promises paraphonic and duophonic modes, and gets its official reveal on August 11.
The microphone maker beefs up its virtual monitoring plug-in. Space Replicator 2.0 rebuilds real studios and listening spaces inside your headphones, and now gives every space its own EQ and ambience control so your mixes finally translate.
The format that moved music production into the computer is turning thirty. Steinberg is re-releasing five of its earliest plugins — Neon, VB-1, CS-40, LM7 and Karlette — rebuilt as 64-bit VST3 and free, alongside a run of updates and sales.
Two men, two coasts of the United States, two opposing visions of sound. East Coast and West Coast aren’t music genres but two philosophies of synthesis that every synth still inherits from today. Here’s how to tell them apart and put them to work.
Universal Audio brings two of its most iconic reverbs — the EMT 250, the first-ever digital reverb, and the EMT 140 plate — to its UAD Native platform. No Apollo interface or in-house DSP required: they run as VST3, AU and AAX on your Mac or PC’s own CPU.
UK boutique builder Hampshire Electronics is back with the Vulcan MK2, a Eurorack module that squeezes an 8-voice, all-analogue polysynth plus two digital engines into just 37 HP. Pre-orders are open at £679, with shipping slated for the end of August.
Nicky Howard’s new standalone app, Peak Tamer conditions isolated peaks with gain envelopes — no compression, no color — to give your limiters a more consistent source. An old studio move, finally automated and recallable.