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BLEASS brings tape stop and slowdown and Granulizer to Mac and PC – plus CDM bonus

Stretch, bend, and mangle those sounds, because BLEASS' tape and granular effects from iOS are now PC and Mac plug-ins,...

Elektron Digitakt 1.30 adds tons of new sound features – guide to everything you can do

Elektron has been busy lately - a massive 1.30 OS update for Digitakt brings external audio mixing/sidechaining, a second LFO,...

Splice Studio is free backup, version control, and collaboration for your DAW

A lot of the solutions you'll see for "collaborating" involve live jamming - even though that's not always what you...

Acid, further out: check Florian with MeeBlip, 303, and Zen Delay

There's some magic and alchemy in coaxing evocative music out of stuff with knobs, and Florian Meindl's Riemann Kollektion keeps...

Roland SYSTEM-8 synth is free to try in April – here’s why it’s a sound designer’s friend

Want that new synth feeling, but for free? That's the hybrid-vintage-modeled-new synth SYSTEM-8 this month from Roland - and we've...

Polyend Medusa 4.0 and FM mode takes hybrid synth out with a bang

As Polyend's epic hit Tracker gains momentum, their gorgeous Medusa synth continues to mature - even as it reaches the...

Quick Ableton Live tips: blackest ever UI, Saturator tutorial, see plug-ins on tracks – let’s go!

Another day, another boot screen for Ableton Live ... let's make something different happen in that DAW of choice. Here...

Inside KORG’s Modwave – sound design tips for this upcoming wavetable synth

KORG's Modwave synth isn't even out yet, but CDM sonic wizard-at-large Francis Preve was one of the people making sounds...