Soundtrap now supports third-party effects plugins in its collaborative music production app. The update lets you use effects already installed on your computer while working on a project with someone elsewhere. The point of Soundtrap’s new plugin support is that your collaborator can hear the processed track without having the same plugin. That could save…

Ben Turner on why promoters have no excuse left, and why nurturing new talent is a long-term investment. Debates about representation in electronic music tend to get heated fast. Comment threads and panel soundbites distort arguments that deserve more space, whether that’s about lineup balance, studio access, mentorship or safety. At the heart of the…

max1mus audio has released Mult1Comp, a multiband compressor and frequency router for surround and immersive mixing. Mult1Comp does three jobs Surround multiband compressor: On a surround channel from 5.1 up to 9.1.6, every speaker splits into up to eight bands, the heights and the LFE included, and every band has its own compressor. Timing follows…

Marula Music has released Veld, a stereo width plugin for shaping the stereo image across up to four frequency bands. It allows users to keep bass centered while widening upper frequencies, or generate stereo width from mono sources. The Stereo Engine offers Haas delay, Allpass decorrelation, Velvet noise and Chorus modulation. Its Anchor processing keeps…

2B Played Music has announced the release of 2B Shaped 2, a new multi-effect plugin featuring 17 creative effect modules, drawable motion shapes, dynamic modulation and advanced sidechain control. 2B Shaped 2 combines Volume, Filter, Pan, Delay, Reverb, Flanger, Pitch, Crusher, Phaser, Distortion, Noise, Scrub, Resonator, RingShift, Unison/Wide, Formant and Compressor/Expander in a flexible effect…

Dropshot Audio has announced the release of Bagels V2 v1.0, describing it as “a proper release, with a whole lot of work under the hood and a much nicer instrument to use”. Changes: Updated UI throughout — new knobs, sliders, displays, cleaner modulation matrix controls, and generally a more finished visual language. Optional output limiter,…

Minikod has released a range of VST3/AU plugins for Windows and macOS that aim to bridge the gap between hardware synthesizers and DAW-based workflows, covering popular instruments from Moog, Arturia, Behringer, Erica Synths, and Korg. The plugins come in two series: The Recall series addresses a common hardware limitation: synths with no patch memory. Each…

Ortofon Concorde cartridges have been hanging off DJ tonearms for decades, but “Concorde” is not a single cartridge. The name covers generations of models aimed at mixing, scratching, timecode, general club use and more specialist jobs. If you are buying replacements now — especially on the used market — it helps to understand the broad…