Plugin Week 2025
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By Stuart Adams Published
We continue our adventure into the world of Linux-based music-making with a round-up of the best Linux-friendly software tools

By Andy Price Published
Forging a close bond as two-thirds of international superstars, Foster the People, Sean Cimino and Isom Innis have embarked on a parallel life as Peel.

By Andy Price Published
We sit down with the brains behind Strands and Folds, two Kontakt instruments that caught our attention with a wildly imaginative approach to sound design

By Jon Musgrave Published
It’s entirely likely that you could recreate many legacy analogue set-ups with just a few chained plugins. Here, we’ll show you how to get started

By Matt Mullen Published
Zimmer digs deep into his creative process in this interview with Rick Beato

By Andy Jones Published
Everything from plants that grow sonic tentacles to synths that create sounds in both time and space

By Stuart Adams Published
Create your own reverb effects with our step-by-step tutorial

By Andy Price Published
We caught up with Cherry Audio's CTO Dan Goldstein to find out more about how it crafted a plugin emulation of a super-rare proto-synth from 1939

By Adam Douglas Published
It's out with hardware replication and in with simplification, with a considerable heap of AI on the side - we ask the experts to foresee the plugin experience of tomorrow

By Jon Musgrave Published
From wonky reverbs, complex motion designers and dehumanisers, this assortment of tools will take your music into places you never thought possible

By Andy Price Published
Leapwing's intuitive, incisive plugins let users perform forensic mix surgery with ease and emulate the tones of iconic producers.

By Si Truss Published
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

By Roland Schmidt Published
Phasing and flanging are often confused. We ask why - and demystify!

By Roland Schmidt Published
That hard-tuned, robot-like sound, first popularised by Cher, has now become something of a staple in modern pop

By Andy Price Published
We sit down with Musik Hack co-founder Sam Fischmann to hear more about the philosophy behind its superb mastering plugin

By Jon Musgrave Published
Our resident mixing expert Jon Musgrave, serves up his go-to toolkit for compressing with the best of them

By Andy Price Published
Joseph Chung and Joseph Abella’s fusion of dubstep, trance and techno has found favour with millions of listeners globally

By Roland Schmidt Published
Duff notes, timing errors and quirky performance choices are often the elements that underline the humanity of acoustic performances.
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