VocAlign 7 is the latest version of the popular and long-running vocal alignment software. It’s as good as you expect, but does version seven bring enough new features to the table to make it worth the upgrade? Since 1995, Synchro Arts have been making vocal alignment a little easier with VocAlign. The industry standard software…
Keleigh Batchelor on why balanced lineups start years before the poster, and why “fewer women DJs” doesn’t hold up. 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…
Strymon has introduced La Brea, an all-analog tape saturation drive pedal joining Fairfax and Canoga in its Series A range. La Brea uses multi-stage tape saturation techniques to produce sounds ranging from mild breakup to borderline fuzz, with natural compression. Its development began more than a decade ago, when Strymon analog engineer Josh Forbes started…
Audio Modeling has released Camelot v2.5.4, with fixes and improvements covering stability, MIDI timing, audio performance and live workflow. The update improves MIDI Clock synchronization and optimizes MIDI messages sent to External Devices during Scene recall, reducing simultaneous message bursts for more reliable timing. Camelot also now automatically reloads the current Song when the audio…
Hell Yes Loop Lab has released Little Room, a fictional vintage-flavoured guitar amp plugin focused on clean and edge-of-breakup tones. Rather than modelling a specific historical amplifier, Little Room was designed as an imaginary small vintage amp with its own amp voice, cabinet and spring reverb: GAIN controls the primary drive into the amp. MASTER…
Rockedge Audio has released RA-CS1, a channel strip plugin for macOS. It includes a downward expander, an 8 band EQ, a label-true VCA compressor, and a saturation stage with multiple drive flavours. Features: Auto Gain: play your signal for 3 seconds, it suggests the level. 2× oversampled, 2 samples of latency. Per-band EQ enable/mute/solo, true-ratio…
Salonebeats has released SLB Key, a free key and tempo detection plugin in VST3 format for macOS and Windows, available as a public beta. SLB Key analyzes audio live on a mixer track. After a few seconds of playback it displays the detected key with Camelot number and confidence, the relative key, two clickable alternatives,…
Applied Computer Music Technologies has updated their ACM76SA FET compressor plug-in. The current v3.4.0.1 release (build 290926) includes the following bug fixes and feature improvements: Feature. Improved VU meter physics model, better replicating the ballistics and overshoot of a mechanical meter movement. Bug fix. This update addresses an issue which could affect the gain reduction…