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Stuck For Wedding Music Ideas? Try This
I’ve had a sneak look at The Wedding Music Canon, a book coming later this month from an experienced US-based wedding DJ covering great tracks to play in wedding DJ sets from the 1950s up until the 2010s. Thankfully this isn’t a set of AI-generated lists. These are all hand-picked and time-honoured tracks that the…
Reloop Ups Its Entry Level Turntable Game With RP-2000 Mk4
Reloop has announced the RP-2000 Mk4 entry-level DJ turntable, which brings improvements over the popular RP-2000 Mk3 model, such as a more rigid chassis and more refined controls. Ultimately, this remains a classic design, very similar to the time-honoured Technics SL1200 Mk2, with a simple +/-8% pitch control, S-shaped tone arm, and all the other…
discoDSP updates Vertigo, Discovery Pro and Bliss
discoDSP has released updates for Vertigo, Discovery Pro, and Bliss. Vertigo 5.4 Vertigo 5.4 adds three per-voice LFOs, MPE support and a Keep Section that holds modulation, controller and effects setups across program changes. This update is free for all Vertigo 5.x customers. YouTube.com/watch?v=ctFkR5x4Z-s Bliss 3.22 Bliss 3.22 imports third-party sampler formats through ConvertWithMoss and…
Fanan team releases Domina – Free Seeded MIDI Arpeggiator Plugin
Fanan has released Domina, a seeded MIDI arpeggiator offering “672,000,000 built-in seeded arpeggios”. The arp responds to single notes but its greatest benefit is responding to any chord and delivering complex arpeggios based on them. Domina builds a complete pattern from a six-digit seed: note lengths, rests, ties, accents and a melodic contour and plays…
Raccoon Audio releases RoboComp stereo character compressor for $49
Raccoon Audio has released RoboComp, a stereo character compressor for macOS and Windows, with a $49 launch price through August 31st. RoboComp combines a familiar compressor layout with two controls that let you decide which parts of the signal drive the compression. Basically, the idea is to shape the movement and stereo character without building…
Schallenberg Engineering releases FREE Collision: Bongos for Kontakt
Schallenberg Engineering has released Collision: Bongos, a free bongo sample library for the full version of Native Instruments Kontakt. I haven’t used Schallenberg Engineering’s libraries before, but this is definitely a very cool freebie. It is fairly compact at 268 MB, but the sampling depth here is much better than you might expect from a…
WET VST releases FREE WetEQ and WetCompressor analog-style plugins
Ronald Klarenbeek has released WetEQ and WetCompressor, two free and open-source analog-style plugins for macOS, Windows, and Linux. These are the follow-ups to WetDelay and WetReverb, which we featured in March. The developer told me that the two earlier plugins have since reached over 3,000 users. He started seeing YouTube Shorts of producers using WetDelay…