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.
Black Rooster Audio has launched the PS-VC1, a dedicated vocal chain that puts six modules — Low End, High End, Compress, Reverb, Echo and Width — on a single panel, in a fixed order that mirrors how a vocal actually gets mixed. It’s the first release of the company’s new Professional Series, priced at $79.
Cherry Audio has released Memorymode 2, the second generation of its Memorymoog emulation. A dual-layer engine, rebuilt analog modeling, a polyphonic sequencer and a fuller effects section bring one of the biggest analog polysynths of the 1980s squarely into 2026 workflows, for $69.
From the PPG Wave to Serum, wavetable synthesis powers a huge share of today’s productions. Here’s how it actually works, how it differs from FM and subtractive, and how to tame it.
United Plugins and JMG Sound launch Continuum, a delay built from two independent engines that cross-feed and diffuse until the echoes turn into reverb-like washes. Three vintage characters, twelve spatial modes, and an aggressive launch price.
Groove Synthesis ships OS 2.0a, a free update that meaningfully expands its high-end 3rd Wave wavetable synth: a fully modulatable shimmer reverb, a Make Waves tool with a new Spectral mode, and MIDI additions aimed squarely at the studio.
Pittsburgh Modular is shrinking the Lifeforms SV-1, the semi-modular that built its East Coast reputation, into a compact desktop box. At $599, the SV-1 Mini keeps the original’s full architecture intact and undercuts it by $200 – with a limited first run due in January 2027.