Host, sequence and record your AUv3 plugins with a new music-making app, SAND
The iOS app supports MIDI mapping, so you can control your plugins with an external controller
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Alesis owner inMusic ordered to pay Roland $4.6m for infringing electronic drum kit patents
Roland says that it “will continue to vigorously enforce its intellectual property rights”
Quick Tips: How to create massive bass sounds using Live's Wavetable synth
Use Wavetable's envelopes, LFOs and the modulation matrix to craft a hard-hitting bass patch
Apple Music reboots its Replay experience and steals a march on Spotify Wrapped
Most played song and album also revealed
Waves’ new BB Tubes saturation plugin comes with Beauty and Beast knobs for giving your mixes a fairy tale finish
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Ableton co-founder Robert Henke on the origins of Ableton Live: “We just thought that our concept of a more performance-focused sequencing system would be interesting for a small group of people”
"Things just very quickly started to become much bigger than we anticipated”
6 affordable DIY modules to get started building a modular synth for less
As part of our eternal quest to save you dough, we've lined up 6 wallet-friendly modules for build-it-yourself modular fun times
Dorian Concept: “I’ve got a complicated, love-hate relationship with the Microkorg - it's often the case with the first big one”
The Austrian producer, musician and synth savant lets it all go on his new album, What We Do For Others
Whisper it, but one of the cheapest Black Friday iPad deals is still available on Cyber Monday
Get the 2021 10.2-inch iPad for a bargain price
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New Exoverb reverb plugin promises to create ‘spatial’ depth in your stereo mixes
Has developer Dear Reality moved into the realms of fantasy, though?
reFX releases Vanguard 2: much-loved soft synth returns from the plugin grave
New presets, a new UI and more features, but all your favourite sounds from version 1 are here, too
The all-new MF-109S Saturator is a “free gift” for Moogerfooger plugin owners
A fresh Moogerfooger effect that was never available in hardware
Cableguys ShaperBox 3 review
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The modulation-focused multieffect hits v3. We examine what’s new in this box of tricks…
Andrew Huang pitches his $10 Flip app against the $2,000 OP-1 Field, and his findings might surprise you
As Flip comes to Android, the YouTube star compares it to Teenage Engineering’s much-talked-about synth/sampler
Korg heads back to the ‘90s and ‘00s as it adds microKorg, Electribe and Kaoss Pad plugins to version 4 of its software collection
Three more much-loved Korg products can now be used in your DAW
Sonicware’s Liven Lofi-12 groovebox takes you back to the gritty days of old-school ‘80s samplers
Dirty sounds and sequencing at an affordable price
SampleRadar: 485 free tape treated samples
Tape your music to new places with this menagerie of tape-worn sounds
Newfangled Audio says that its Invigorate plugin is a bus compressor like no other
Could it have a revitalising effect on your mixes?
