It’s not easy being a musician. You have to undergo hours and hours of practice to become accomplished at your art. You then have to find ways to promote your music to the world through unpaid gigs, social media, and word of mouth. It’s incredibly tough to work your way up from a complete unknown…

Top ten for August from Phairo featuring Floating Points, Objekt and Todd Edwards. Follow Phairo The enigmatic Phairo newly emerges as a dance music artist with his extended EP ‘9’, after years in high demand producing acclaimed names in other genres such as Bruno Major, ELIZA and Sam Wills. This new project ‘9’ will drop…

Quilcom offers SIM-THROAT, a free throat-singing effect plugin for Windows. I feel pretty confident in saying that, over the last few weeks, most of you have been thinking, OK, I’ve got the Foghorn instrument from LABS; when will we get a free throat-singing effect? I understand your lack of patience; there’s nothing worse than not…

Has Berlin’s Manifest Audio finally delivered a key missing piece of modern music production? What if you could trigger your virtual and hardware instruments with the pitch and amplitude of any audio signal – microphone, guitar, field recording, loop, or otherwise – in real-time? Audio-to-MIDI has existed as a creative function in Ableton Live since…

Cherry Audio has released Elka-X, a software synthesizer based upon the rare Italian ELKA Synthex. Here’s what they say: Elka-X replicates the original’s exceptional character… Read More Read the full story

RJ Studios has updated their True Mid/Side, Mid<>Side Channel Extractor to version 1.3.0 with additional improvements including a new Ring Suppression option. They say: … Read More Read the full story