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.
Velvet Machine is a little plugin that makes a big sonic blur
Velvet Machine is simple but not ordinary. It is one of several plugins designed by Yuri Turov which manipulates a sound by stretching and blurring it, somewhat similar to continuous reverb.
iOS synth Zeeon sparkles on the Mac too
The best kept secret of the iOS platform, Zeeon from BeepStreet runs like a charm on Mac and macOS too.
Plunging into the nerdy world of the Audulus synthesizer environment
Audulus is a very flexible synthesizer programming environment. It’s a toolbox for creating your own synthesizers, sound effects, filters - anything that has to do with creation or manipulation of sound
Other Desert Cities is the wildest reverb machine on Earth
Even with the most basic, out-of-the-box settings, I’ve never heard anything as odd and freaky from a reverb plugin as what I made from passing simple chords through the reverbic chaos of Other Desert Cities.
Making interstellar ambient loops with SpaceFields
5 Mag reviews SpaceFields, a fascinating and useful app for making pulsating, rhythmic sound structures in deep reverb space.
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Elbert Phillips releases a 3 hour Frankie Knuckles classics tribute mix
Chicago DJ and producer Elbert Phillips pays tribute to the late, legendary Frankie Knuckles with this extended and thoroughly dope classic tribute mix.