Bloomer Free, from the developer Freequency, is a MIDI chord progression generator driven by emotion. When I say driven by emotion, I mean you don’t need to know lots of music theory to generate a beautiful progression; you just need to know which emotion you want to evoke. Right now, Bloomer Free is available in…
Lady Tazz channels a cross-continental journey spanning Montreal, Bangladesh and Toronto into her uncompromising sound and Mind Medizin platform. She’s a pilot, label boss, business owner and high-level tennis player. So there’s a lot going on outside of being a techno DJ. We caught up with her to learn more about the experiences shaping her…
Arturia has released Augmented Persia, a software instrument that unites the expressive depth of Persian and Middle Eastern instruments with the power of modern synthesis. From the resonant pluck of the Oud, Tar, and Saz to the breathy Ney and bowed intensity of Alto Kamancheh and Shah Kaman, each sound is captured in exceptional detail…
DLP / Mike Dean has released Smoke Mono 1, a free monophonic synthesizer VST3 and AU plugin for macOS and Windows. Mike Dean is a Grammy-winning producer, engineer, and musician who has shaped the sound of modern music for over four decades. From Kanye West to Travis Scott to The Weeknd, Mike has produced, mixed,…
Tom Wolfe has released Mist, a new soundbank for Spectrasonics Omnisphere 3 featuring darkly ethereal atmospheric presets designed for cinematic and ambient music. Here’s what Tom says: Get lost in a shroud of ethereal ambience with Mist: a collection of 50 darkly atmospheric presets for Omnisphere 3. Featuring gentle pads and floating textures that bloom,…
Cableguys have released ShaperBox v3.6.3, a quality update for their popular drawable multieffects suite. PitchShaper’s Vocals and Drums modes now have more robust pitch tracking under rare edge cases. TimeShaper’s Smooth Step Mode is now even smoother, with a reduction in extremely low-level resampling artefacts. ShaperBox’s master bypass handling has been overhauled, with smoother crossfading…
Slate Digital is running a Spring Sale with the coupon code SPRING26, which knocks $25 off your order in the shop. A handful of paid plugins are currently priced at $24.50 each during the sale, so the discount covers the full price and brings them down to zero. The crazy part is that the code…
Aqeel Aadam Sound has updated Waymaker to v1.1. This is a massive update, and I really think that this update brings Waymaker to a whole new level. A huge number of these changes came from user suggestions too, so I want to say thanks for your thoughts and all the excitement since Waymaker’s release. Highlights…
