Neither thin nor synthy Of all of the orchestral instruments, the trumpet is one of the most challenging instruments to sample properly. Many sample libraries sound...
The “J” synths – Jupiter-4, Jupiter-8, and Juno 106 have all been refreshed Roland has been busy! Here’s their list of updates to their famous softsynths....
Elk LIVE releases a free native app that connects musicians online for Live, Real ‘Jamming’ over the internet with near-zero audio latency. With Elk LIVE, musicians...
Noise Engineering announces Polydactyl and Librae, two new dynamics-processing plug-ins presenting many flavors of compression, expansion, limiting, and distortion. Polydactyl is designed for anything from subtle mixing tasks to complete...
ILIO and audio plug-in developer Audio Modeling announce the latest updates for SWAM and Camelot, bringing new features and improvements. SWAM, which delivers realistic and expressive...
Capture your ideas quickly, work on them in detail later What have we here? We have absolutely no idea, but this unedited release from the company...
3D means what you think it does – multichannel/spatial audio This actually looks like an interesting synth even without the spatial audio features its hat is...
Multiphonics CV‐2 modular synthesizer and effect processor — a space for exploration, experimentation, creation, learning, and fun. Multiphonics CV‐2 is a sophisticated modular environment for assembling...
Marty Cutler got his hands on the new version of this highly expressive instrument A quick thumbnail refresher course: MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) is a fairly...
It’s a chamber strings library, produced with Latvian composer Vasks and featuring lots of different articulations Why are developers constantly releasing new string libraries? Because they’re...
An open letter from their co-founder (the response to their going exclusively subscription was not met with enthusiasm) Meir Shashoua, CTO and co-founder of Waves Audio,...
StudioVerse’s “Musical AI” feature scans tracks and recommends a chain of plug-ins for them Here’s Waves’ release. We’ve already covered the pros and cons of subscription...
EastWest presents Hollywood Fantasy Orchestra, a brand-new orchestra that includes everything you need to create fantasy music, film, television, and game soundtracks. Produced by Doug Rogers...
Stunning virtual piano instrument: a prized Steinway grand in a new player that uses both sampling and modeling Spoiler: Synthogy Ivory Grand 3 is at least...
Morph from chamber to huge orchestras and add some sampled synth spice Ever wonder what it would sound like to morph seamlessly from a small and...