Harrison Mixbus 12: the console‑soul DAW adds DeNoiser and DeEsser on every channel
Harrison Audio is releasing Mixbus 12, a new version of its workstation built around the…
Author Simon Janvier
Simon Janvier
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.
reFX Rippler: the acclaimed free physical modeling synth goes commercial, gains wavefolders and filters
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.
Like the NI Super*Saw: 8 synths for a real wall of saws (free and paid)
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 H9 Harmonizer Gen 2: the full H90 engine in the cult pedal, at $599
Eventide had left its H9 untouched for a long time. The brand is correcting that…
Like SpectraLayers 13: 8 tools to split a song into stems (free and paid)
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.
Polyphonic tuning patent: Behringer’s parent company loses its case against Boss
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.
Native Instruments Super*Saw: A. G. Cook’s signature supersaw becomes its own synth for $99
Native Instruments has turned A. G. Cook’s signature sound — the man behind Charli xcx, Caroline Polachek and Oklou — into a dedicated soft synth. Super*Saw isn’t another preset pack: it’s a sawtooth-stacking machine built around gesture, and it’s out now for $99.
Plugin Alliance and Brainworx leave inMusic as founder Dirk Ulrich buys his brands back
Four years after selling them, Dirk Ulrich has bought Plugin Alliance and Brainworx back from inMusic. Both brands now sit inside RCKFRC, the founder’s new holding, alongside Apogee and Manley. It’s a homecoming that says a lot about the state of the plugin market.
Analogue Solutions Filtopia: the analogue monosynth built around five parallel filters (£1,799)
Analogue Solutions unveils the Filtopia, a monophonic analogue synthesiser that flips the usual logic on…
EVE Audio Origin: the free software that finally controls all the DSP in EXO monitors
EVE Audio is rolling out Origin, its free application for Windows and macOS that gives…