
Akai Pro team up with Spitfire Audio
The first formal collaboration between the two brands will see a selection of the UK-based sampling experts’ virtual instruments made available within Akai’s MPC ecosystem.
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The first formal collaboration between the two brands will see a selection of the UK-based sampling experts’ virtual instruments made available within Akai’s MPC ecosystem.

Revealed at The NAMM Show 2026, Shure’s new KSM mic series promises to deliver “lifelike fidelity” in a thoughtfully engineered design that’s been crafted with musicians and studio professionals in mind.

Metamorph V1.1 introduces the ability to import third-party RVC (Retrieval-based Voice Conversion) models, opening up a whole host of new creative possibilities while maintaining the security and privacy offered by the softwares offline local processing.

In celebration of their fifth anniversary, The Very Loud Indeed Co. have announced a sale across their range of cinematic scoring and sound-design tools.

Described as “a musician by your side”, the latest addition to the Celemony line-up brings together a huge collection of musical phrases played by some of the world’s top session players, all of which can be adapted to play in any song, regardless of its chord sequence, tempo or groove.

Nostalgia Reborn brings together more than 4500 samples drawn from over four decades of electronic instruments, delivering an all-in-one genre-spanning collection that promises to fit into just about any modern production.

The software now boasts 128 audio streaming channels and supports any combination of beds and objects, along with full metadata integration, allowing directors and stakeholders to attend Dolby Atmos playback and mixing sessions from their preferred location or setup.

Reason Studios have announced a major update to how creators can access the Reason platform.

PMC's NAMM 2026 launch represents the first complete reinvention of PMC’s main monitoring systems in more than three decades, and promises to deliver the most substantial advancement since the range was last updated ten years ago.

1010music’s portable groovebox is the company’s most ambitious product yet.

Our countdown of the most influential music tech breakthroughs reaches the Top 20.

AEA aim for the middle ground with an intriguing new stereo ribbon mic.

AFK Audio’s Drumbeam is a percussion pad with a difference.

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The Live III is the most powerful and flexible MPC yet...

When Phil Manzanera and Andy Mackay recorded an instrumental improv album in 2023, they had no intention of performing it live — let alone in a cinema, through an immersive Dolby Atmos sound system...

Find out just what’s possible — and what’s not — with Cubase’s new virtual vocalist.

This major update to Fiedler’s immersive audio mastering suite could revolutionise your Atmos workflow.