Baby Audio has released HyperWarp, a granular multi-effect for drawing stutters, speed changes, reverses, and tape-stop-style motion into incoming audio. The plugin launches at $49, which is 50% off its regular $99 price. Existing customers can sign in to check their additional loyalty discount. HyperWarp breaks the incoming signal into microscopic grains, stores them inside…
Mastering The Mix releases CARBON Q connected EQ for $56
Mastering The Mix has released CARBON Q, an 11-band connected EQ that controls the tonal and volume balance of several mix buses from a single window. The usual price is $80 / £59 / €70.95, but the introductory 30% discount reduces the US price to $56 until November 6th, 2026. Existing Mastering The Mix customers…
Beatport Launches Indie Tech Genre Category
Beatport has launched indie tech, a standalone genre category with its own Top 100 chart, separating it from indie dance. Beatport has added indie tech to its store as a standalone genre, giving the heavier, club-focused strand of contemporary indie dance its own page and chart. The change separates two sounds that had shared a…
Unofficial DJ Software & Firmware: Should You Use It?
An hour and a half. That’s how long one DJ told me it took him to get 5,613 tracks onto a USB stick using Rekordbox. Then he did the same job, on the same computer with the same stick, in a minute and a half – using software he wrote himself. He’s far from the…
Arturia Releases AstroLab 2.0 – Front-Panel Sound Editing and 60+ New Sounds
Arturia has released AstroLab 2.0, a firmware update for its stage keyboard range that adds instrument-specific sound editing from the front panel and more than 60 new sounds. The new Sound Edit view organizes each instrument’s key parameters into dedicated pages. These include envelopes, filter and glide, with each page mapped to AstroLab’s four macro…
DSPTone releases Diodrive Plugin (VST3, AU, AAX)
DSPTone has released Diodrive. They say: From the classic overdrive to distortion pedals, Diodrive isn’t trying to replace them. Its purpose is different. Rather than recreating one specific circuit, DioDrive brings these diode-clipping territories into a single flexible plugin, with modern control. What if that character had the control and flexibility expected from a modern…
sonicLAB releases SPATAI v3
sonicLAB has released SPATAI v3. SPATAI is a utility software that offers Large Language Model AI assistance to move sound objects in a virtual 3D acoustic space. It translates in real time the movement of multiple objects in cartesian or polar coordinates and sends this movement data to other 3D audio spatialization software. SPATAI v3…
granvia releases FantaDrop – Drop-Building Loop Sequencer Plugin with Built-in Bass Synth
granvia has released FantaDrop, a drop-focused loop sequencer plugin with a built-in bass synth, designed to transform unused audio samples into high-energy, expressive drops. FantaDrop was created to solve common creative blocks: bought-and-forgotten sample packs that don’t quite click when dragged into a DAW, or the hassle of manually building pitch and filter variations. Without…