fedDSP has released fedZEP, a new guitar amp plugin built around two original amp designs, three preamp pedals, a dual-cab section, and a full FX rack. fedDSP is a small team from Sheffield, UK, led by producer and engineer Federico Telesca. Over the past few weeks, we’ve covered their first three plugin releases: the MORSO…
Ash Taylor has released version 0.9 of SFLT for Windows and, for the first time, macOS. Besides being officially available on macOS as a VST3, CLAP and AU plugin, this version also introduces support for the SF3 format, an extension of the SF2 spec with support for Ogg/Vorbis-compressed samples. Beyond that, there’s QoL features like…
All FabFilter plug-ins have been updated with small bug fixes, and, in addition, they have improved the macOS installer experience. This update is free for existing customers and FabFilter recommends everyone to update to these latest versions. How to upgrade to the latest versions? Just download the latest installer from www.fabfilter.com/download and install over the…
SonikStation has updated SonikSearch, the AI-powered sample browser and manager, to v2.4, with several major features: Local AI Semantic Search: Search your sample library by describing sounds in natural language. Type things like “warm pad,” “punchy kick,” or “dark atmosphere” and find matching sounds regardless of filename. All processing is done locally on your machine,…
Intermod is a new audio plugin from Phantom Sounds, the developer behind Orbit (spatial reverb) and 56K (digital decay). We covered Orbit earlier this year, and if you missed it the first time around, it’s worth checking out. Intermod offers something a little different; it’s a self-intermodulation effect that multiplies the strongest components in your…
Filament is a new MIDI orchestration plugin from Forma Labs Audio, and it’s currently in the free public beta stage. If you sign up to be one of the beta testers, you’ll get to play a part in shaping the final product, and you’ll receive the full v1.0 release at launch. There are limited beta-tester…
In our latest free training video, we walk you through the key specifications to look for in a DJ laptop – memory, storage, processor – but also the physical things most guides overlook: USB socket count, screen size and brightness, keyboard backlighting, and build quality. We cover the Mac versus Windows question (spoiler: there’s no…
We first wrote about Tracknack back in 2023, when it launched as a Spotify-only music discovery tool for DJs. It combined your Spotify data with deeper metadata from Discogs to build a personalised playlist that went further than Release Radar. Now its developer Viesturs Marnauza has been back in touch with a list of updates….
