LANDR, AI-powered mastering, all grown-up: plug-in test
LANDR's machine learning-powered mastering service is now more than a simple web tool. The quality of the results has matured...
REVIEWS
Field system, completed: Teenage Engineering TP-7 recorder test
Teenage Engineering's fecund design imagination has yielded inventions wonderful, ambitious, sometimes prohibitively expensive, odd... but can the company reinvent the...
Rhodes V-Pan, free through January, offers versatile, musical panning
Rhodes - yeah, that Rhodes - is giving away the V-Pan panning plug-in they've just introduced. The hardware-style panning borrowed...
New Arturia Refract super unison multi-effect is free through Jan 4: hands-on
Here's a taste treat for you. Arturia's Efx Refract combines stereo super unison processing with multi-effects (filters, bitcrusher, distortion, harmonizer)...
Swarm Reverb hands-on: dual-stage reverb with creative extras, now $29
Minimal Audio has a new standalone Swarm Reverb, and it's no typical reverb. Pairing early and late reflection algorithms plus...
Moog’s new Mariana is a monster bass soft synth with dual engines and CV
Moog's Mariana is here on desktop (macOS, Windows) and iOS and - it's about as much Moog sound as you...
Nephaton 2 is here: D16’s perfect, booming 808 recreation joins 909
This is what many drum machine fans were waiting for: following their remade 909, D16 has its 808 plug-in reboot,...
1010music bluebox Eurorack: mix, record, FX, surpasses desktop edition
We already found 1010music's bluebox a musically inspiring combination of mixer, multitrack recorder/player, and effects. The leap to Eurorack has...
Xer Mixa review: versatile analog mixer and creative tool for Eurorack
Noise Engineering's Xer Mixa is a tour de force - an expansive all-analog bank of VCAs for stereo mixing and...
D16’s Drumazon 2 review: a must-have 909-inspired drum machine plug-in
Polish software house D16 has been cooking something special for its flagship 909-inspired drum machine, Drumazon 2. It's an emulation...
