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.
The first fully in-house instrument from Dutch builder Vannes Devices, the Obsidian is a desktop semi-modular analog synth that blends East and West Coast synthesis in one box — an ambitious bet backed by an architecture with real character, still in its final tuning phase.
reFX, the studio behind Nexus, unveils Rippler: a software synth pairing modal physical modeling with subtractive synthesis across two independent layers. Twelve resonator models, an energy-coupling architecture and a $99 intro price. Here is what it actually brings to the table.