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Mastering The Mix CARBON Q balances your vocals, music, drums and bass – all from a single window

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cherry
"It's one of the rarest synthesizers ever made": Cherry Audio brings a forgotten ‘80s synth back to life

By Matt Mullen Published

Clad in transparent plastic with illuminated internals, Pentaphonic is the latest vintage synth to get the Cherry Audio treatment

Plugins
Baby Audio HyperWarp
Baby Audio HyperWarp wants to be your new quick-fix for glitches, stutters and out-there inspiration

By Si Truss Published

The ‘time-bending granular effect’ combines easy effects processing with precise time manipulation

Plugins
phoenix
"This is a dream inspiration engine": BT and Spitfire Audio team up for Phoenix hybrid synth

By Matt Mullen Published

The MPE-compatible instrument combines samples from BT's private library with six synthesis engines, deep modulation, 37 effects and a true stereo architecture

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A screenshot of the Line 6 Helix Stadium Native amp simulator software
“This could well be the amp simulator to rule them all”: Line 6 Helix Stadium Native review

By Matt McCracken Published

Line 6 Helix Stadium Native brings Agoura amp models, Proxy clones, and 48-blocks to your DAW, but is it worth the $399.99 asking price for new users?

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Bit Layer
This free multiband bitcrusher is a surgical tool for lo-fi sound design

By Matt Mullen Published

Equipped with mid/side routing and tonal/transient processing, RiverFlux Audio's Bit Layer gives you eight highly tweakable layers of digital degradation

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autotune
Antares AutoTune Advanced makes the trade-off between pitch-perfect vocals and natural vibrato a thing of the past

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A rebuilt algorithm, a new vibrato detection and preservation engine and ultra-fast real-time monitoring make this the biggest leap forward for AutoTune in years

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autotune
"Since 1997, the complaint about pitch correction has been the same: it takes the singer out of the singing. That's the problem DVA was built to solve": Antares launches AutoTune Advanced with new DVA vibrato engine

By Matt Mullen Published

The new flagship product in the AutoTune range, Advanced is built on a ground-up rewrite of the plugin's vocal tuning algorithm

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An Arturia MiniFreak synthesizer on a table
One of our favourite synths of recent years now lets you upload your own sounds

By Si Truss Published

Upload wavetables and samples to customise Arturia's hybrid poly and its plugin counterpart

Hybrid Synths
zplane
Zplane's Timbre is a formant-shifting plugin with a few tricks up its sleeve

By Matt Mullen Published

Capable of everything from subtle timbral tweaking to creative vocoder-style effects, Timbre is a versatile formant-shifter with multi-band processing and sidechain functionality

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