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Arturia FX Collection 4 is here, with the latest plug-ins plus a new Leslie rotary effect

Arturia just refreshed their FX Collection to version 4. That adds all the newest stuff, including a few I've written...

Inside Ableton’s Drift, the hardware-inspired synth in Live 11, with designer Marc Resibois

Drift is a friendly, MPE-ready, hardware-inspired synth that's now included in Live 11.3. Since anyone with Live 11 - even...

Kyoka on the new Ableton Push; approaching Push as an instrument

How does the new Ableton Push perform as an instrument - with those new expressive pads? We invited artist Kyoka...

Here’s what’s in Apple’s Logic Pro for iPad – and it’s more than you probably think (first impressions)

It's been a long time coming, but Logic Pro's leap to the iPad is an impressive one. You get a...

Hands on: Soundtoys SuperPlate is five plate reverbs in one – and delivers on nuance

In the midst of lots of splashy effects, Soundtoys' latest is an exercise in subtlety and precision. These plates are...

Arturia Augmented BRASS makes it uncommonly easy to build up hybrid brass sounds

Arturia has rounded out its Augmented line with Augmented BRASS. It's like a hybrid brass plug-in even for people who...

Arturia LX-24 recreates 1978 Lexicon 224 reverb – but don’t miss the 2023 flipside

The Lexicon 224 digital reverb has one of the best-known, best-loved reverb tails of all time. That also means it's...

Piastrone is a perfect, playable reverb for Ableton Live – even when other reverbs fail

Plenty of reverbs will flood you with sound or bathe you in shimmering tails. Fewer are controllable in multiple situations,...