If you’ve ever found yourself struggling with ideas for chords and melodies, maybe Scaler can help. Scaler is a creative music theory plugin that can level-up your compositions and provide inspiration for new musical ideas. Released earlier this month, Scaler 2 includes some powerful new
Arturia have announced not one, but four new software products this week: 3 all new reverb plugins, plus a new flagship FX Collection which packs all 15 of Arturia’s imminently practical effect plugins. Arturia are perhaps as equally well known for their hardware synthesisers as they are for
Sender Spike is an independent developer dedicated to releasing free, high quality music tools — and their latest is no exception. The SN03-G Tape Recorder plugin emulates the character and saturation of vintage tape machines in a highly CPU-friendly package. Why tackle something that’s been
Denise continues to release great simple and easy to use new plugins and they have followed up with the Perfect Room “Supernatural Reverb” that contains a unique algorithm to enhance natural character & colouration. Denise goes on to explain that “ Classic algorithmic reverb plugins
Audiaire turned heads with their incredibly powerful synthesiser plugin Zone last year, it’s fantastic parameter sequencing interface being the star of the show. Now, Audiaire have just released that interface repackaged as a standalone MIDI sequencer plugin called Zenith, meaning you can utilize the modulation
Native Instruments’ behemoth flagship software synth Massive X was released in June 2019, now the first major update is available, addressing some concerns and suggestions from users. Update v1.1 is also, to quote Native Instruments, “the first of our upcoming major updates.” Firstly, Massive X
Denise has just added ‘Bad Tape’ to their expanding range of easy-to-use little plug-ins. They describe Bad Tape as an effect plugin that emulates the slowing down of a reel to reel tape recorder in real-time. According to denise the inspiration for the Bad Tape
Parallel compression is a great way to add a lot of compression without sounding like you’ve added a lot of compression. Duplicate a track, compress one, don’t compress the other. The idea is to crush the hell out of the track, and subtly blend that
‘3 Delays You’ll Actually Use’ is the latest addition to Arturia’s existing line of devices with purportedly imminent practicality such as ‘3 Filters You’ll Actually Use, ‘3 Preamps You’ll Actually Use’ and ’3 Compressors You’ll Actually Use’. If you’ve never been one to get particularly excited
It’s a special type of person that gets excited about EQs, and to be honest, it isn’t usually me. The minor character differences between different EQs that mix engineers get excited about are fairly often lost on me — I’m just not that good at