Baby Audio has released Grainferno, a granular synthesizer plugin that breaks audio samples into microscopic fragments and rebuilds them into new sounds. It’s available at an introductory price of $79 (regular $129). Grainferno works by generating grains from any loaded audio file and letting you manipulate how those grains are created, shaped, and played back….
Creativity isn’t something that you can turn on like a tap. Here are ways to stay creative even when the flow of inspiration runs dry. Our time is limited. While it must be lovely to be able to leisurely make music when inspiration strikes, few if any of us have that kind of trust fund…
New plugin turns samples into playable synth voices using high-speed granular processing. Baby Audio has announced the release of Grainferno, a new granular synthesis plugin. It allows producers to transform samples (including their own) into playable sounds by breaking recordings into microscopic fragments and reorganising them in real time. According to the Baby Audio team,…
Most DJs assume energy and tempo are the same thing. Start low, build slow, and the BPM climbing through the night tells you exactly where you are on that journey. House DJs in the early days would start a night around 120 BPM and gradually push it up to 135 by closing time. Energy built…
Gooey has released Mortamer, a Lo-Fi effects plugin for crushing and droning your sound. Mortamer uses sample rate reduction alongside a peculiar form of filtering, which works by averaging tap delay lines. Although Mortamer is not that unusual, because like other well-defined LoFi Fx, Mortamer comes with a resolution reduction, d.c. offset, classic filtering, dithering,…
Bitwig has announced the release of Bitwig Studio 6, a version update for its digital audio workstation focusing on core sequencing functions, automation management, and project-wide musical scale integration. The update introduces several new clip behaviors and editing tools designed to streamline the arrangement and sound design workflow across macOS, Windows, and Linux. Automation Clips…
Standalone Audio has released Standalone, a lightweight AU and AUv3 plugin host for Mac designed specifically for guitarists and bassists who want to run amp sim and effects plugins without opening a DAW. Standalone is built around the guitar practice and recording workflow. It hosts AU and AUv3 plugins with low CPU overhead, and includes…
discoDSP has released Retromulator, a free plugin designed to bring classic hardware cores back to life through authentic low-level emulation. Featuring eight classic synthesizer and sampler cores in one plugin, Access Virus ABC/TI, Waldorf MicroQ, Waldorf XT, Nord Lead 2X, Roland JP-8000, Yamaha DX7, and Akai S1000, it is built on Gearmulator, an open-source synthesizer…