From the Dance Tent in 1995 to Silver Hayes, The Glade and the South East Corner, this is how electronic music grew into a major part of Glastonbury Festival. Read the full story

CarbonDSP has launched Vellum Pro 1.0.0, an algorithmic reverb designed to solve one of mixing’s biggest headaches: getting a large, spacious reverb sound without burying your lead vocal or instrument. Here’s what they say: Going beyond traditional ducking, which pumps the whole reverb up and down, Vellum Pro can analyze your source frequency by frequency…

Audient has announced the launch of Horizon, a new flagship Thunderbolt 3 audio interface range for the professional studio market. Comprising three interfaces – the Horizon 8P, Horizon 16 and Horizon 32 – the range delivers 32-bit mastering-grade conversion, sub-millisecond round-trip latency and a scalable architecture that grows from a single unit to a 200…

DAWJunkie has announced the release of Kelly Clarksynth, a free virtual instrument plugin for Windows and macOS. Kelly Clarksynth is built around vocal samples transformed into playable synth sounds, combining the character and texture of the human voice with a synthesizer-style workflow. The instrument includes a collection of presets designed to turn its vocal source…

Spongefork has announced ShadowTag 2.1, an update to its free audio metadata editor for macOS. Version 2.1 adds Find and Replace across a whole project, read-only MXF support through Apple’s Pro Video Formats package, immediate loading for large playlists, and faster tag saves to large MP4 and M4A files. Find And Replace Find > Find…

Sampleson has announced the release of Backgrounds, a sound design tool that allows you to create immersive soundscapes by simply dragging words/ideas onto a canvas. Mix “Strings” with “Analog Bass”, or “Bassoon” with “Thunder” and get evolving soundscapes in just seconds. It runs 100% on the user’s machine. No cloud or subscription needed. How it…

Polarity has released Polarity-Glue, a free SSL-inspired bus compressor for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Polarity-Glue is designed for compressing drum buses, instrument groups, and complete mixes. It applies one shared gain envelope to help multiple elements move together. It’s clearly inspired by Ableton Live’s Glue Compressor (which is basically The Glue by Cytomic). Much like…

t4 Digital Studio has released AlterVerb 53, a free algorithmic reverb plugin for Windows. The developer designed AlterVerb 53 for busy and bright material that needs more space without losing definition. Drums, percussion, keyboards, and vocals are suggested starting points, though it should work on anything that benefits from highly customizable reverb. The plugin gives…