Igor Vasiliev has updated ExoSphere – Endless Ambient Drift App for iOS and macOS to version 1.3. They say: The new update expands ExoSphere’s creative flexibility with enhanced sample handling and additional expressive tools inside the Shard generator. Workflow becomes smoother, sound design more nuanced, and navigating personal sample libraries noticeably easier. It’s a focused,…
Product Spotlight: Neon Vibes, Vintage Echoes and Hollywood Stages
Standard digital audio can occasionally feel a bit sterile. Clean and functional, but lacking character. To help reintroduce some flavour and depth into your signal path, we’ve rounded up a collection of effects designed to pull your tracks out of the “perfect” digital domain and into more complex territory. From the neon-soaked artifacts of the…
Dreeemwave updates Bassliner to v1.3 – Adds Lock Zones
Dreeemwave has updated Bassliner to v1.3 for Windows and macOS introducing a major new way to generate basslines: Lock Zones. Lock Zones lets you freeze the parts you love while regenerating everything else. Right-click to lock notes in the piano roll, hit generate, and watch new variations form around your protected elements. We think it…
Carve Audio announces Slapshot and Busboy
Carve Audio has announced the release of two new audio plugins, Busboy and Slapshot. Both plugins are designed to help engineers and musicians achieve polished, professional results faster by reducing complex signal chains and unnecessary decision-making. Here’s what they say: Busboy – Broad, Musical Mix Bus Tone Busboy is a mix bus and subgroup plugin…
Windows-G releases E-Limiter600 – JSFX Limiter Plugin
Windows-G has announced the release of E-Limiter600, a JSFX limiter plugin for REAPER suitable for track-level, mix-bus, and master-bus limiting without distortion artifacts or ceiling overshoot. E-Limiter600 features a fixed 1 ms lookahead, stereo link control (0% to 100%) for independent or linked channel limiting, input gain (-40 dB to +40 dB) for driving the…
The open-source Shortcircuit XT sampler by Surge Synth Team is now in beta
Shortcircuit XT by Surge Synth Team is an open-source sampler plugin for macOS, Windows, and Linux, and it’s now in beta. Fans of the original Shortcircuit sampler and the Surge Synth Team have been eagerly awaiting the next step in the plugin’s progress since we covered the pre-alpha release years ago. We have a lot…
The Crow Hill Company releases Glass Beaker, a FREE experimental instrument in the Vaults series
Continuing their series, the Crow Hill Company has released Glass Beaker, a free experimental instrument in the Vaults series. I think we’re all familiar with the Vaults series from The Crow Hill Company. But, for anyone who isn’t, the Vaults series is a collection of free instruments, each available for a limited time. Once the…
How DJs Use “Fader Cuts” To Elevate Their Sets (Free Lesson)
Ever watched a DJ cutting channel faders in time with the music and thought it looked too difficult? That technique is called a “fader cut”, and while it looks cool, mastering the skill itself is pretty straightforward. We break it all down in this tutorial. If you want to add some “flash” to your next…