dBdone has released Wasser, a free multiband delay plugin for macOS and Windows. Wasser splits the incoming signal into frequency bands and lets you draw a different delay time for each one. That’s a pretty cool idea. It’s definitely a fun little tool for sound design because it lets you create rhythmic movement that would…
Yurt Rock releases Pick Pocket audio-to-MIDI drum plugin for $49
Yurt Rock has released Pick Pocket, an audio-to-MIDI drum conversion plugin for macOS and Windows, priced at $49. This one is useful if you want to extract the groove from a drum recording without losing the swing and quantizing the performance onto a grid. Pick Pocket preserves the original microtiming and dynamics, so you can…
MidiStickers expands Lessons & Exercises content in MidiStickers Pro v1.3 update
MidiStickers has released version 1.3 of its music education software, MidiStickers Pro. The update introduces a new Lessons & Exercises hub with more than 30 textual lessons, a new Sight Reading Trainer based on Georges Dandelot’s method, as well as dozens of new exercises and UI improvements. MidiStickers Pro is a desktop music education application…
Native Instruments updates Kontakt to v8.13
Native Instruments has updated Kontakt to v8.13. Added User interfaces improvements to Navigator. Level meters to new Instrument Headers. Selection focus indicator to new Headers. Favorites button to new Headers. Instrument/Tool reordering via the new Headers. Snapshots button to new Headers. New Save dialogue for Snapshots. Fixed Deprecated the New Instruments For You panel. URLs…
neverfoundaudio Releases VT-Mini – Free Vocal Tuner Plugin (Windows VST3)
neverfoundaudio has released VT-Mini, a free vocal tuner. VT-Mini has two pages: Tune handles voice tuning and pitch correction, with Retune, Amount, Natural and Variation controls and a chromatic or key-based scale. Clean adds a low cut and a dynamic de-esser, on the same graph used in the developer’s EEQ-8 equalizer. It runs in two…
Dream FM Leeds: Inside Yorkshire’s Legendary Pirate Radio Station
The rise and fall of Dream FM Leeds, the pirate station that broadcast house, techno, hardcore and jungle across Yorkshire from 1992 to 1995. Read the full story
M Media Audio releases Lake Ontario, Leadfoot, and Dualtronix Plugins (Plus Reference Player is now free on Windows)
M Media Audio has announced the release of three new plugins and a major pricing change on the desktop player. Here’s what’s new: Lake Ontario Lake Ontario pairs a Vari-Mu compression engine with a full 4-band EQ on every channel. Features: Low and High shelves, Low-Mid and High-Mid bells, fixed Q, freq and gain at…
Muse Group releases Audacity 4
Muse Group has announced the release of Audacity 4, a major new version of their open-source audio editor. The new version redesigns the application’s editing workflow, refreshes its interface and lays the groundwork for more in-depth product development in the future. First released in 2000, Audacity is now used by millions of creators worldwide thanks…