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….
Carbonated Audio has released On Tap, a sidechain ducking plugin that delivers instant pump and groove effects without any compressor routing. On Tap ships with 16 hand-crafted ducking curves and 3 trigger modes — Sync (locked to your DAW tempo), MIDI (trigger from any MIDI source), and Audio (react to incoming signal). A band-split crossover…
Tritik has released Krush2, a new version of the multi-stage effect combining bit-depth reduction, sample-rate reduction, filtering, drive, modulation, and compression. It can be used for subtle texture and density, or pushed toward more aggressive lo-fi processing. This new version has been rebuilt with updated internals, reworked parameter handling, and smoother parameter automation, along with…
Berlin-built tool by engineer Patrik Skoog aims to streamline file delivery, feedback, and versioning without compression or login barriers. A new platform designed for musicians and producers has launched, offering lossless streaming and integrated feedback tools directly in the browser. Echoe, developed by Berlin-based mixing and mastering engineer Patrik Skoog, targets producers, engineers, and labels seeking…
MAP Audio has announced the availability of PAM, a highly-functional, modular sampler with eight sound slots, flexible pattern building, and modulation throughout the entire system. Each cell houses one sampler, effects, and a dedicated sequencer commanding Note, Pitch, Stretch and Slice controls. Any parameter can have its own sequencer as a modulator, or can be…
