Every so often, something wonderfully original emerges out of a market oversaturated with virtual analog instruments and effects. It doesn’t happen very often, but when it does, I try to be there with bells on my toes when it drops. Aparillo from Sugar Bytes surprised almost everyone late last year with its unusual approach to…

Infected Sounds has released Little-V, a freeware EDM-oriented virtual analog synthesizer in VST plugin format for digital audio workstations on Windows. Little-V seems to be loosely inspired by the Novation K-Station, at least when it comes to the GUI design and its core feature set. The K-Station was one of the more popular portable hardware synthesizers…

Impact Soundworks has announced availability of Meditation — a collection of sampled acoustic mallet, gong, and glass sounds, combined with a Kontakt-based additive synthesizer allowing users [Read More] Read the full story

Synapse Audio has updated DUNE 2 to version 2.6. This update adds support for Native Instruments’ NKS and contains minor bug-fixes. The NKS implementation adds the DUNE 2 Factory presets to the [Read More] Read the full story

Ableton has announced that Live 10 is now available at Ableton.com and at local retailers worldwide. The new Live delivers four bold new devices, workflow refinements and a re-designed sound [Read More] Read the full story

Zynaptiq has announced that version 4 of the Orange Vocoder is coming. A significant update to this classic plugin, Version 4 is expected to ship early Q2, 2018. As far as plugin vocoders go, [Read More] Read the full story

iZotope has released updates for several plug-ins. Ozone v8.01 New Features/Enhancements: Improved Master Assistant EQ results to be less subtle. Improved gain trace drawing in Vintage Limiter [Read More] Read the full story