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.
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.