Analogue Samples

The SlimVerb2 reverb plugin from the developer 2B Played Music is now free for a limited time. Some of you probably have the original SlimVerb plugin; we’ve covered it a few times through various offers and limited-time promotions. If you liked the original, here’s your chance to upgrade to SlimVerb2 for free. But you’ll need…

Buying gear feels like an investment. Selling it rarely does. Most DJs learn this the hard way, usually about three years in, when they list a controller they paid good money for and watch the offers come in at half of what they expected. The gap between what you paid and what someone will hand…

A CDJ-3000X is big, expensive, and built to survive a decade of club abuse. It’s what pro DJs expect to find waiting for them in the booth. But a Reddit thread I read recently has been rattling around my head ever since, and it asks a simple question: how long before somebody makes a fake…

orph has released Alias, an effect plugin for macOS and Windows that adds the artefacts of old samplers, tape machines, VHS players, vinyl records and CD players to a signal. Here’s what they say: The result is the sound many of us grew up with: a cassette copied a few times too often, a record…

SSA Plugins has updated their first- to tenth-order Ambisonic dynamic range plugins, aXCompressor and aXGate, to version 1.4.0. This new version adds a spatial side-chain that can be used to drive the gain reduction: Point a virtual microphone anywhere in the sound field so sources from that direction drive the gain reduction. Vary the width…

AudioFuse Studio Rev2, Arturia’s new 18-in / 20-out desktop USB-C audio interface, is aimed at project and hybrid studios that need one desktop box for mics, line sources, turntables, and digital expansion. The unit records and plays back at 24-bit resolution up to 192 kHz. It is a revision of the existing AudioFuse Studio form…