Chaos Audio has made their Starlight Night Sky Reverb guitar effect available for free as a native plugin for Windows and Mac. You can get a download link for the plugin by entering an email address on the product page linked below. The Starlight’s interface is set up like a guitar pedal, and the shimmer…
From synths to effects, grooveboxes to pedals, here are our favorite music production releases of 2023. It’s safe to say that 2023 was a banner year for music production gear and software. Whether you were tightening your purse strings and sticking to budget gear or seriously abusing your credit limit on top-shelf releases, there were…
Signal Perspective released the free Trailbender delay-based multi-effects plugin for Windows and Mac. Trailbender is a versatile plugin that can be set to act as a mod FX, pitch shifter, synthesizer, and more. The developer Giorgio Presti explained that the origin of the Trailbender came when he developed a tool to show his students “how…
UVI and Venus Theory released Noctua, a freeware sample-based virtual instrument for the UVI Workstation plugin. We’re getting closer to the holidays, my dear readers. As such, it’s that time of year when you’ll find some serious goodies slung your way. UVI’s new Noctua sample library is a beautiful cinematic instrument for the free UVI…
The annual thankless and impossible task is upon us. Here are 13 tracks we really got into this year. “Best” is a tricky term…at best… How the hell do you decide what’s better than each other? That’s up to the listener’s appreciation. There’s no scale for musical superiority or musical EPL. We only use the…
Algoriddim recently released djay Pro 5 for iOS, iPadOS, and Mac. It further refined an already smooth piece of DJ software, with an absolutely killer new feature in (possibly) the best beatgrids ever added to any software, along with world-class stems and other new features. On paper, it’s the most advanced, easy-to-use, and impressive DJ…
Tidal has spoken publicly for the first time about the removal of stems functionality in DJ software when streaming music from its service. In a statement on X, Tidal says that it believes other streaming service providers have also been asked to do this, and that it is working to get stems re-introduced. The full…
The German duo are also booked to make their BPM debut with a busy schedule for 2024 lined up. Stuttgart duo Tomi & Kesh, best loved for their bouncy and catchy tech house, have made a name for themselves with releases on Elrow Music, Deeperfect, Kaluki, and their rapidly rising imprint NoZzo. The group has…
