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Can the improved, AI‑based Mix Assistant make iZotope’s already powerful collection of mixing plug‑ins more useful?
For as long as I can remember, British musicians have been indignantly complaining about the high prices of gear imported from the USA...
Live 12’s new Tunings system is your invitation to explore alternative tunings and microtones.
We go beyond the headlines to explore Logic 11’s less obvious new features.
There are quite a few plug‑ins that emulate the famous Fairchild 660 and 670 compressors, but KIT Plugins have based theirs on specific units in John McBride’s Blackbird Studios in Nashville.
Having acquired the Rockman brand, Jim Dunlop set about recreating the Rockman X100 under their MXR brand, but this time in pedal form and with a bypass footswitch.
JMG’s DarkFire is a harmonic enhancer plug-in whose added harmonics can be shaped by a three‑band EQ to put them precisely where you want them.
The puntastic name and the faders on the GUI of Poseidon leave you in little doubt as to which famous console EQ it sets out to emulate...
The Vector is a digital sequencer with eight parts assignable as quantised mono or chord tracks, or four‑lane drum tracks.
The Mutant Machine is a little like its own miniature modular system for drums...
They’ve engineered synth noises for years, but this is the California‑based company’s first foray into the guitar‑pedal world.
If you do much work with surround or immersive formats, upmixing and downmixing are a fact of life. With Penteo, good results needn’t cost the Earth.
Play All Day’s debut outing takes a novel approaching to hands‑on hardware control.
Pro Tools has many features aimed at post‑production. Could they help you with music production too?
Are mixers smart enough to know when a signal coming into the XLR is at line level and to adjust accordingly?
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Emergence Audio apply their Infinite Motion Engine and Non‑Static Sampling technology to another member of the woodwind family in their latest release.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. Dreamtonics add a further voice database expansion to their voice generator software.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ 4/5 Stars. Osmosis provides a wide palette of cello articulations and experimental techniques that help inspire creativity.
Sample Logic rev their own engine, cinematic style.
Love it or hate it, pitch‑correction is here to stay — but there can be way more to it than fixing performance issues.