Kiviak Instruments has announced WoFi LE, a compact and lower-cost version of its sampling instrument featuring live sampling tools, Wi-Fi integration and expanded storage support. The original WoFi also receives a permanent price reduction. Kiviak Instruments has announced WoFi LE, a new compact version of its WoFi sampling instrument aimed at musicians and producers looking…
1010 Music Announces Blackbox 2: Sampler with 2X Power, Shredder Instrument and 3-Hour Battery
1010music has announced blackbox 2, the successor to its compact desktop sampler, featuring double the processing power, a new 4″ high-resolution color touchscreen, and a set of instrument and performance additions developed alongside the company’s flagship bento production lab. The new Shredder instrument combines granular and slicing techniques to generate fragmented motion from samples. The…
XeniAudio updates McPlugins Compressor Suite to v1.3.2 – Hardware-Calibrated
XeniAudio has released version 1.3.2 of the McPlugins suite (Mc, McMsc, MbMc, MbMcMsc) for Windows, Linux and macOS in VST3 and CLAP formats. This release cycle (v1.3.0 → v1.3.2) brings a full hardware-calibrated DSP rework of every compressor type: each emulation has been profiled against real analog reference units and rebuilt around the captured signatures…
Native Instruments Releases Komplete 26 – Absynth 6 Returns with 190+ Instruments and iZotope Mixing Tools
Native Instruments has released Komplete 26, its flagship instrument and effects collection, adding Absynth 6, two grand piano libraries, orchestral strings, vocal samples, and vintage keyboard sounds alongside iZotope and Brainworx mixing tools. The collection spans four paid tiers from $99 to $1,949. New additions The headline addition is Absynth 6, a semi-modular synthesizer known…
Kiviak Instruments Introduces WoFi LE – Compact Sampler with Rubber Keypad and microSD
Kiviak Instruments has announced WoFi LE, a compact addition to the WoFi hardware sampler family. Priced at $349 / €299, it sits below the original WoFi and ships alongside a permanent price cut on that model. WoFi LE carries over the core sampling workflow: samples can be recorded, chopped, and swapped into a running sequence…
Pulsar Audio Smasher is FREE for a limited time again
Pulsar Audio is giving away Smasher, its €49 FET compressor plugin, as a free perpetual license. If the name sounds familiar, it should. We’ve covered Smasher being free four times before, going back to 2020. If you’ve somehow missed it every single time, here’s another chance. And I’m having a hard time coming up with…
NovoNotes releases SnapClip, a free clipper plugin with graph-based control
NovoNotes has released SnapClip, a free clipper plugin for macOS and Windows. I use clippers a lot in my sound design work, and my go-to approach is to put one before the limiter every time. Taming the extreme peaks with a clipper first means the limiter has an easier job, and, to me, the result…
Mastering The Mix releases STEREOVAULT, a new stereo width plugin (LAUNCH OFFER)
Mastering The Mix has released STEREOVAULT, a stereo width plugin for macOS and Windows. The plugin addresses a common problem where stereo widening can make audio sound bigger immediately, but it often weakens the low end, blurs the center of the mix, and introduces phase issues that hurt translation outside the studio. STEREOVAULT fixes this…