Posts with tag plugin

Review | Mar 02, 2015 by Joe Albano

Looking for a tight, fast, VCA compressor, with a vintage character, a proven track record, and a punch sound? Joe Albano finds out if Waves dbx 160 hits the heights of its hardware counterpart.

News | Mar 02, 2015 by Rounik Sethi

The Faraday Limiter GHZ-0007 is a Peak limiter w/ a big magnetic field, which though Mac-only, is free and now comes in Audio Units and Pro Tools AAX flavors.

Review | Feb 16, 2015 by Noah Pred

Plogue tasked themselves with bringing back to life the classic machine speech synths from many a popular electronic toy from childhoods now past. Noah Pred discovers a unique and playable instrument.

News | Feb 16, 2015 by Rounik Sethi

If you're interested in generating new drone and loop based audio sounds utilising delays and granular synthesis Siren Audio's Feedback 2 and Generative 2 are certainly worth checking out.

Tutorial | Feb 12, 2015 by Joe Albano

If you use Pro Tools and are keen on your monophonic synths, then you'll find Vacuum a rather fun virtual-tube style synth. Joe Albano shows how to make an edgy bass sound.

News | Feb 11, 2015 by Rounik Sethi

The Tack is a recreation of the 'Mrs Mills', a tack piano from Abbey Road Studios with which The Beatles, Elliot Smith and many others recorded some of their tracks. Now available for Kontakt.

News | Feb 09, 2015 by Rounik Sethi

UVI Scratch Machine, a highly-expressive scratch instrument previously exclusive to the Urban Suite bundle, is now available stand- alone with an enhanced library for $39 USD.

Review | Feb 03, 2015 by Toby Pitman

A world of sonic mayhem in another plug-in from the twisted minds at Glitchmachines? Toby Pitman puts Cataract to the test and finds that it comes up trumps.

News | Feb 01, 2015 by Rounik Sethi

Since its announcement at NAMM 2015, Omnisphere 2 has been a source of excitement. In case it all got lost in the noise, here's a video of Eric Persing previewing its features.

Review | Jan 28, 2015 by G.W. Childs IV

There's audio filters and there's audio filters. G. W. Childs shares his top 12 audio effect filter tools for the modern musician and producer in this essential read of an article.

Review | Jan 25, 2015 by Toby Pitman

When we think of Native Instruments' Komplete 10, we may lust after the numerous synths and instruments'¦ but what about the effects? Toby Pitman reviews the effects that make this a complete suite.

Review | Jan 21, 2015 by Matt Vanacoro

Here's five effect and utility plug-ins that come bundled with Logic Pro X that Matt Vanacoro feels you should not overlook. Do you agree?

Review | Jan 20, 2015 by G.W. Childs IV

Glitchmachines have made a name for themselves as creators of musically exciting plug-ins. And when reviewing their new multi-effect tool, Convex, we soon realized it's all about modulation. WOW!

News | Jan 18, 2015 by Rounik Sethi

Waves are offering their SSL 4000 collection for over 60% off the list price!! For only $249 you can grab four excellent plug-ins based on the popular SSL 400 series. Act fast though.

Tutorial | Jan 14, 2015 by Matt Vanacoro

Whether you're recording or mixing, Universal Audio's UAD plugin system not only provides excellent sounding plugins, but also dedicated DSP to host them! Here's some tips to make them work better!