A great selection with significant taste – Faster Horses provides his Top Tracks, which could make their way into your next set. Manchester-based DJ and producer Faster Horses has quickly become one of the most exciting names in the UK club scene. Known for his high-energy sound that blends hard house, garage, trance and techno….
Are Beatport & Beatsource About To Merge?
When Robb McDaniels, Beatport Chairman & CEO, announced in September that the Beatport platform would expand into open-format genres – hip-hop, R&B, pop, Latin, Caribbean, and African – our immediate question wasn’t “why?” but “what happens to Beatsource?” After all, that’s what Beatsource does – and of course, both brands are owned by the same…
DSP-Quattro 6 updated to v6.1.1
Stefano Daino has announced that version 6.1.1 of DSP-Quattro, an application for Audio File Editing, Audio CD-ROM Mastering and DDP Import/Export, Plug-ins Hosting and Batch Processing for macOS, is now available. New features since 6.0: DSP-Quattro is now fully compatible with macOS 26 Tahoe. New on the Batch Processor: added the possibility to set, update…
quietformat releases Transient Control, a free transient shaper plugin
quietformat has announced the release of Transient Control, a transient shaper designed to balance attack and sustain with a musical and minimalist design. Best of all, it’s available as a free VST plugin. At the heart of the plugin is a single main knob. Turning it to the right brings out the sustain of a…
Noisebud releases 360 – a free phase rotation plugin with a twist
Noisebud has released 360, a free full-range phase rotator designed for mixing engineers who want to mess or fix phase problems — or shape the stereo image — using only phase rotation. Unlike traditional all-pass based designs that affect only a narrow frequency range, 360 rotates the entire signal equally across all frequencies. Its unique…
Ina GRM releases GRM Tools Atelier for macOS
Ina GRM has announced the release of Atelier, a modular environment for creative sound manipulation and generative synthesis, designed to encourage an exploratory approach to music making, and inviting you to play it like an instrument. Eight simple but powerful modules, a completely novel polyadic modulation engine, unbounded multichannel processing… and much more. More than…
Drum Depot celebrates with Pay What You Want sale on all drum sample packs
Marco Scherer is celebrating his birthday in style with a massive Pay What You Want sale on all Drum Depot packs until October 31st, 2025. Several of them start at €0, meaning you can grab them completely free. If you’ve followed Marco’s work (as I have for years), you’ll know he’s one of the most…
Reminder: Voting is open in the KVR Readers’ Choice Awards 2025
This is a reminder to all that the final round of voting for the KVR Readers’ Choice Awards is open now. This is your last opportunity to champion the software and hardware that have defined your year in music production. But hurry, the polls close on October 31st, 2025! How Voting Works in the Final…