For February’s feature interview, we spoke to DJ Holly Lester and Boyd Sleator. The duo run ‘Free The Night,’ a Northern Ireland campaigning organisation, leading the way in dance music activism. A combination of lack of infrastructure, the conservative nature of Northern Irish politics and the most restrictive licensing laws in Europe mean that Northern…
ToneBoosters releases 23 legacy VST plugins with 64-bit support for FREE download. ToneBoosters has bundled 23 Legacy plugins for macOS and Windows into a single file, making the download and install a bit more straightforward. The plugins don’t require registration either. The included TrackEssentials and BusTools (v3) plugins have been around for over a decade…
A sampler is something that will let you play back “samples”, usually meaning small snippets of audio that you add to your DJ sets. When DJs talk of samplers, we actually normally mean “sample players”. (A true sampler also records, but for this article we’ll assume you have the audio you want to play.) So…
Acapellas4U, the long-running acapella website beloved of a whole generation of DJs, is offline. A notice on the site’s home page says “We’ll be offline until further notice and not sure when (or if) we’ll return.” The problem appears to be with the financing of hosting, because the message goes on, “If you’re reading this…
PSPaudioware has announced that PSP Xenon has been updated to v1.6.0. The update is free for registered users. For the new users PSP offers PSP Xenon with a 65% discount ($69)…. Read More Read the full story
Emvoice, the vocal synthesis company, has released their third voice for the Emvoice One plugin: a vocoder named Thomas. The company also unveiled some key new features for all voices:… Read More Read the full story
Presteign Sound Labs releases Macro, a FREE rack instrument for Reason. Macro is based on the ever-popular Plaits Eurorack module from Mutable Instruments. Plaits came along as the successor to the best-selling Braids module a few years back. The idea behind Plaits was to condense the sonic palette of Braids into a more manageable interface….
ZamplerSounds offers the Waves CR8 Sample Pack, a free 3.8 GB collection of sounds for the new CR8 sampler plugin. Waves have released the CR8 Creative Sampler (currently available for $9.99) with the built-in AI-powered Cosmos sample finder. CR8 looks to be a powerful tool that lets you put advanced features to work quickly with…