Synth Strings: AudioThing RES-09 emulates the warm strings of the Roland RS-09
An innovative new plugin recreates the sound of Roland's classic analog string and organ synth from the early 1980s.
Hands-on looping with Audio Damage’s Circa
The six-track Circa is a gnarly pedal looper plugin with an open environment that inspires creativity.
Download ReCycle and sample like it’s 1994 again
The app that refuses to die, Propellerhead's sample-flipping tool ReCycle is back and available for free.
Lo-Fi & downtempo by design: adventures with Orange Dreams
ZAK Sound's revised plugin packs a bundle of creative power inside a small package.
Adding space, texture and ambiance to your music with Airspace
Mode Audio's first VST is a reverb & delay plug-in that creates huge sounds out of very ordinary source material.
Funding Yourself To Death: The Strange Story of Aodyo
After several successful crowdsourcing campaigns, French synth maker Aodyo crashed into bankruptcy. What went wrong?
Waldorf compacts the classic Blofeld synth into a plugin
Hot on the heals of the Microwave, Waldorf offers a bit-by-bit emulation of another classic synth: the Waldorf Blofeld.
Introducing Flite, a powerful and (mostly) free new creation tool from Wavea
Flite is a multi-sampler and synth workstation aimed at music producers from Sharooz Raoofi aka Principleasure's new company.
Waldorf takes the Microwave into the DAW
Waldorf steps up with their own deluxe "bit-by-bit" plugin emulation of the famed Microwave synth, the first unit created by German manufacturer.
Generating dreamy delta waves with ZAK Sound’s Skyridge plugin
Ed Martinez generates gorgeous, sculptured atmospheres with vocal samples with ZAK Sound's latest plugin.
Syncussion Mania: For the Love of Synth Drums
A brief history of the once-unloved Syncussion, a drum synth designed for actual drummers that became a mainstay of modern electronic music production.
AI Comes for Music Mastering
Cheap AI mastering by music distributors is pricing out a modest but important side hustle in the music industry.
Carving icy soundscapes with Tundra
Ed Martinez on another niche plug-in from SoundGhost that manipulates richly textured and frozen sounds within your DAW.
Breaking out of the box with Catalyst
Toneworks' combo sequencer, arpeggiator & harmonizer inspires creativity for music production.
DRUMLESS drags AI extraction into the DAW
The DRUMLESS plugin from AudioSourceRe takes audio separation for music producers out of the cloud and onto your desktop.
Make Music 2024: LUNA DAW is now free
Universal Audio has made a fully featured version of LUNA, their proprietary daw, free for all Mac users with very few strings attached.
Sononym makes sample sorting simple
For $99 this product will sort out your life and your ugly sample collection.
Hot to tape: Lo-Fi tape effects with Drift
How many lo-fi effects does a producer need? Drift might be the last one you ever need.
Spotify DJ is going global because the term “DJ” has lost all meaning & nobody cares...
In Spotify's bleak vision of the future, AI will replace DJs and whisper lovingly in your ear. It will also take requests.
Dropbox puts a hard limit on “unlimited” storage
DJs and producers and others pooling storage were violating TOS all along.
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5 Magazine presents The Legend of Paul Johnson
A 5 Mag special issue on the life & music of a beloved Chicago House Music pioneer.
