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Music software reviews for DJing, production and creating electronic music.

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Sononym makes sample sorting simple

For $99 this product will sort out your life and your ugly sample collection.
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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

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 storage limit

Dropbox puts a hard limit on “unlimited” storage

DJs and producers and others pooling storage were violating TOS all along.
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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.
Zeeon Synth

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.
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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 audio damage plugin vst

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.
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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.

MUST READ!