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To mark Plugin Week, here’s our pick of the most out-there sound design plugins you should grab now
From wonky reverbs, complex motion designers and dehumanisers, this assortment of tools will take your music into places you never thought possible
Leapwing Audio on their stable of forensic mix plugins
Leapwing's intuitive, incisive plugins let users perform forensic mix surgery with ease and emulate the tones of iconic producers.
Pivot is a ‘no-nonsense’ FM synth plugin from the designer of one of our favourite hardware instruments
With three operators, no algorithms and a morphing filter, Pivot aims to make FM user-friendly – and you can try a Lite version for free
Atlas DSP, Your Last Steps Review
The new kid on the block delivers its first hard-hitting amp sim, which is tailor-made for brutal noise making and modern metal grit – just don’t call it the blues
5 innovative synth plugins daring to do things differently
Unconventional and creatively inspiring, these soft synths are pushing synthesis in bold new directions
Musik Hack on their quest to refine plugin UI design
We sit down with Musik Hack co-founder Sam Fischmann to hear more about the philosophy behind its superb mastering plugin
Our pick of the very best VCA compressor software emulation plugins for any music project
Our resident mixing expert Jon Musgrave, serves up his go-to toolkit for compressing with the best of them
How to humanise your virtual acoustic instruments in your DAW projects
Duff notes, timing errors and quirky performance choices are often the elements that underline the humanity of acoustic performances.
