AudioThing has released Materia, an additive re-synthesizer plugin. Materia transforms any sample into a playable instrument. Load a sound and Materia analyses it into harmonic partials, each with its own frequency, amplitude, phase, and complex envelope. From there, you can reshape the spectrum, redraw how individual partials evolve, add resonant material models, filtering, and modulation,…
touski releases GrooveBloom – plugin that plays melodies and chords from your drums (VST3 Windows)
touski has released GrooveBloom, a VST3 effect plugin for Windows that listens to a drum loop or sample and plays melodies and chords on its rhythm. Put GrooveBloom on a beat and it detects the key and chords live (or you can set them yourself), then plays a note or chord on every hit it…
Fracture Sounds Releases Alternative Woodwind Soloists for Kontakt Player
Fracture Sounds has released Alternative Woodwind Soloists, a Kontakt Player library focused on the rarely used members of the orchestral woodwind family. It is positioned as an alternative to the company’s earlier Emotive Woodwind Soloists. The library centres on breathy, airy instruments and introduces the alto flute, bass flute, bass clarinet and tenor recorder to…
tokyomeltdown releases EQ Mirror v2.0 with EQ Mirror Dock
tokyomeltdown has released version 2.0 of EQ Mirror, an update to its analysis plugin for macOS that shows the frequency response an EQ is actually applying. The update adds a second plugin, EQ Mirror Dock, covered by the same licence. EQ Mirror Dock hosts the EQ itself. It lists the AU and VST3 EQs installed…
Jeesonic updates EQ Pro to v1.3 and introduces EQ Pro Studio (VST3 & AU)
Jeesonic has released version 1.3 of EQ Pro, a free update to its 24-band dynamic equalizer for macOS and Windows. A long click on a band handle now makes the band dynamic, the release adapts to the material, and Undo and Redo keep the last 50 edits. Alongside the update, Jeesonic has introduced EQ Pro…
Music By Mattie releases magic.METER, a FREE vocal analyzer plugin
Music By Mattie has released magic.METER, a free plugin that compares your vocal mix with measurements from 3,054 hit songs. Learning to trust your ears is the most important part of mixing and producing music. But I’ve always found vocals harder to mix than guitars, drums, or bass. We bedroom producers rarely have access to…
DDJ-FLX4 vs Numark Mixtrack Platinum FX: Which Beginner DJ Controller?
The Pioneer DJ DDJ-FLX4 and Numark Mixtrack Platinum FX are both aimed at DJs who have moved beyond the “does this DJ thing actually interest me?” stage and want a controller they can genuinely learn on. They get there in different ways. The FLX4 is compact, deliberately approachable and closely tied to the wider Pioneer…
DDJ-FLX4 vs FLX2: Which AlphaTheta Beginner Controller Should You Buy?
The DDJ-FLX2 and DDJ-FLX4 sit next to each other in AlphaTheta’s beginner range, but they are not really the same controller with a few buttons removed. The FLX2 is designed to make starting as cheap, small and painless as possible. The FLX4 is the point where a beginner controller becomes something you can learn on…