Mid/Side splits the center of a stereo signal from its sides so you can treat them independently. Here’s how the encoding works, what it’s good for in the mix and at mastering, and the traps to avoid.
In 2026 the choice between an analogue and a digital console no longer turns on sound but on how the stage is cabled and whether settings can be recalled. Latency, stageboxes, real costs and a decision table.
On stage you equalise first to win gain before feedback, and intelligibility comes second. Understanding the loop, finding the resonances, cutting narrow, and setting level last.
Console feed, frequency plan, gain structure, limiter: the full method for an in-ear rig that survives the night, and the mistakes that cost a show.
Announced in spring, the Behringer D Mini is now available. This three-voice paraphonic analogue synth, inspired by the Minimoog Model D, packs a sequencer, a 27-key capacitive keyboard and a Moog-style ladder filter, all for €99 (around $120).
For its fiftieth anniversary, Harrison enters the interface market with the Flex-10, a 10-in/12-out, 32-bit/192 kHz unit that borrows the ergonomics of a console channel strip, transformer-saturation preamps and filters inherited from the legendary 32 Series.
Twisted Electrons brings its cult MEGAfm, the FM synth with a Sega-chip snarl, into a plugin that models the first-generation hardware down to its analog output stage. Twelve voices, four operators, eight algorithms, and an intro price of just €39.99.
Frequency modulation synthesis has a reputation for being obscure. Yet it rests on a handful of simple ideas: operators, frequency ratios and modulation depth. Here’s how it builds its bell tones, metallic basses and electric pianos.
sonicLAB has given Creation, its spatial granular instrument driven by a gravitational physics engine, a major version 2. It now handles up to 9,999 sound objects, reworks stereo depth and its resonant filter, and records both audio and video offline, sample-accurate.
REISEI puts spectrum analysis, EQ, dynamics, saturation, stereo imaging and limiting on a single screen, and adds a PARTIAL EQ mode built on additive resynthesis that locks onto each harmonic and follows it as the note moves. macOS Apple Silicon only, $299 at launch.