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Bitwig at Producer Week 2025: Why Bitwig Connect 4/12 is the final piece of their ultra-modern vision for music production
By MusicRadar Team published
Sponsored by Bitwig
Bitwig’s new interface grants home producers ultimate control over both hardware and software universes

u-he at Producer Week 2025: Meet Hive, the sound designer's dream
By MusicRadar Team published
Sponsored by u-He
Discover the latest offerings from u-he, including their first forays into the world of hardware…

The obscure Andean instrument heard on The Last of Us' soundtrack is the star of Spitfire Audio's latest plugin
By Matt Mullen published
Ronroco by Gustavo Santaolalla captures the haunting sound of HBO's post-apocalyptic video game adaptation

Arturia’s V Collection gets a Roland JP-8000 emulation and lo-fi synth/sampler, along with five more instruments and a host of updates
By Matt Mullen published
V Collection 11 also features MiniBrute V, Synthx V and a redesigned SEM V, along with two new instruments in the Augmented series

Waves makes 7 plugins available for free, including convolution reverb, FM synth and tube saturator
By Matt Mullen published
Snag Lil Tube, IR Live, V-EQ3, V-Comp, GTR Solo, Flow Motion and AudioTrack for no charge with free future updates

Baby Audio's Smooth Operator spectral balancing plugin goes pro
By Matt Mullen published
With a redesigned interface and an upgraded core algorithm, Smooth Operator Pro promises to address common mix issues and improve balance and clarity

“The included sample content is sonically amazing”: Spitfire Audio BBC Radiophonic Workshop review
By Roland Schmidt published
This long overdue curation of one of the most distinctive archives in Electronic Music history, finally brings Radiophonics to your DAW

“We were able to fire up a bass sound that was indistinguishable from the flavour of New Order’s Blue Monday in seconds”: EastWest Sounds Iconic review
By Andy Price published
A haul of vintage synths have been mined for all their gold in EastWest’s most pop-angled pack to date

Forever 89 releases Topos, a topographical effects plugin that (quite literally) puts saturation on the map - and there's a free version
By Matt Mullen published
The offbeat software studio launched by former Ableton and Teenage Engineering developers releases an amp and speaker-simulating saturation tool
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