Spectral Plugins are now free as maker goes out of business
Spectral Plugins, a relatively young plugin maker, has announced the end of its business. They're making their three excellent plugins...
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Fortnite gets a modular synth and custom music engine: Patchwork + UE
Every once in a while, the kind of cool thing you'd imagine does happen. So Harmonix, the music game dev,...
The road to Synplant 2: the story behind this mind-bending plug-in sequel
Synplant 2: it's still leafy and organic - just more so. Now it has AI-powered sonic analysis and generation which...
Making Max for Live Devices work on Push and Push 3 standalone
With Ableton Push 3, Max for Live effects, instruments, sequencers, and other tools can work on standalone hardware - even...
Subreddits like r/synthesizers have joined the Reddit protest blackouts
Community boards on one of the largest social media networks have gone dark today, as Reddit boards protest new policies...
Leap Motion is back, so you can add 3D gestures for $139 – with or without a VR headset
An inevitable effect of the renewed mixed reality and Apple hype is sure to be refueling interest in other devices....
CLAP is a new open-source plug-in format from Bitwig, u-he – do we need it, and who will use it?
Bitwig and plug-in maker u-he today are announcing a new plug-in format into beta, dubbed CLAP, for CLever Audio Plug-in...
Universal Control hits macOS, iPadOS, integrating devices and a huge boon to devs and makers
If you produce anything that involves juggling Apple devices, Universal Control is now nearly ready for public consumption. Developers are...
Rymdigare for iOS combines FX in a fanciful UI and makes everything fuzzy and wonderful
There's a gently pastel-colored hand-drawn interface, a backstory involving extraplanetary mining. It's a reverb, a degrader and multi-effect, but also...
Now that Ableton Live is Apple Silicon-native, will your plug-ins and tools still work?
Ableton Live 11.1 beta means a native version of the host that can take full advantage of the hardware inside...
