News Pro Audio Purafied Audio Plugins: Add Some Incredible Emulation and Parallel Compression to Your Music by Josh Needs Purafied Audio’s two mixing plugins: SLP 538 – A Stunning Analogue EQ Emulator & Micro Limiter AKA your new BFF for Parallel Processing. Founded by producer and engineer Sam Pura…
News Pro Audio Soundtoys SuperPlate Reverb: Is This the Most Creative and Lush Verb Ever? by Tim McArtney Soundtoys has finally released another plugin: the SuperPlate reverb. It’s an emulation of five classic plate reverbs with huge flexibility. We tested it out in the studio. When Soundtoys releases…
News Pro Audio Arturia MiniFreak V: A Perfect Emulation of the Hardware by Tim McArtney Legendary music company Arturia has dropped the MiniFreak V: A perfect emulation of their MiniFreak hybrid polysynth. Worlds of software and hardware collide with Arturia’s MiniFreak now that they’ve released…
News Pro Audio UnitedPlugins Firesonic FireMaximizer: A New Generation of Loudness by Happy Coming forth from Firesonic at UnitedPlugins comes a hot new generation of loudness maximizer, the FireMaximizer! We reviewed it in the studio. Remember back a decade or more ago when…
News Pro Audio Spitfire Audio’s Abbey Road Orchestra: Low Percussion is a Treasure Chest of Deep Sounds by Tim McArtney When might we mere mortals have access to one of the world’s largest drums? Now! Purveyors of incredible sounding sample libraries, Spitfire Audio, have all the lowest drums you’d want…
News Pro Audio Korneff Audio Echoleffe Tape Delay: a Tube Tape Delay and Much More by Tim McArtney We fired up the brand new Korneff Audio Echoleffe Tape Delay only to find it’s selling itself short. It’s a Tube Tape Delay with a bunch more features than meets…
News Pro Audio Slate Digital FG-X 2: A Plugin Mastering Suite for Ready to Release Masters by Tim McArtney Peering behind the curtain of the dark art of mastering, Slate Digital has just released FG-X 2: a mastering suite with the tools you need to get your music ready…
News Pro Audio Arturia Pigments 4: Infinite Sound Possibilities Without The Complexity by Tim McArtney Be ready to start a musical journey as Arturia has done it again with Pigments 4: a highly creative and intuitive polychrome software synthesizer. Arturia’s latest update to Pigments —…
News Pro Audio Black Rooster Audio TD-201: Why You Might Need This Vintage Tape Echo by Tim McArtney Black Rooster Audio released their version of the infamous Roland Space Echo the TD-201. But why do you need another Tape Echo? We tested it out in the studio. Knowing…
News Pro Audio Purafied VU Compressor: 4 of the Most Sought-After Units in 1 Plugin by Owen Penglis Direct from Purafied comes the brand new VU Compressor – 4 highly sought-after compressors modelled into one smart, easy unit. Whilst Purafied is a relative newborn as of September 2022,…
News Pro Audio Dear Reality EXOVERB: Bringing Spatial Audio to Stereo by Tim McArtney Dear Reality wants us to understand and use reverb in a thoughtful manner with their EXOVERB plugin. It brings the idea of spatial audio to stereo. We tested it out…
News Pro Audio Arturia MiniLab 3: a MIDI Controller Packed With Software, Samples and Lessons by Tim McArtney We got our hands on the brand-new Arturia MiniLab 3 MIDI controller. Perfectly sized, it’s packed with free software from Arturia, Ableton, Native Instruments, UVI and subscriptions to Loopcloud and…
News Pro Audio Native Instruments Piano Colors: Not Just a Piano by Tim McArtney Native Instruments are up to Komplete 14 of their overwhelmingly huge software series of instruments and effects. We took a deep dive into one of the new updated releases, Piano…
