It’s been over three months since APN took delivery of the Arturia KeyLab Essential 61 – is it weathering the storm?
It’s been over three months since APN took delivery of the Arturia KeyLab Essential 61 – is it weathering the storm?
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IK Multimedia has ported Syntronik – one of its premier VI’s, to iPad.
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IK Multimedia updates T-Racks Mastering Suite to version 5 – including 4 brand new processors.
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Is the new ELI Arousor the must-have plugin compressor for studio’s around the world, like it’s hardware cousin, the Distressor? APN finds out
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Arturia’s new Keylab Essential MIDI controllers destroy the notion that the words ‘budget’ and ‘pro’ are mutually exclusive.
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A brand new mixing and mastering bundle was released this morning by hot new dev, Audified.
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The emulation masters at Brainworx and Plugin Alliance have just released both E and G series SSL channel strips
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Soundiron Bontastic! Review
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Soundiron’s Bontastic! Vintage Organ Series is modeled after the Bontempi B4 Electronic Table organ. Bontastic! offers two instruments, a chord organ and ambience.
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The problem with most plugin emulations is that, like a pair of tight, pink, zebra print, lycra leggings they are not subtle like real tape actually is. Softube’s new tape plugin is the opposite.
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Overloud’s new Dopamine plugin is actually a two-fer. It features replicas of the famous (if you’re an engineer!) classic tape encoding processors, the Dolby AN-180 and D361
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UK developers LiquidSonics have long been held in high regard for their excellent convolution plugin Reverberate. For 2017 though, they decided to offer something new and very special – a Bricasti M7 replica.
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Plugin Alliance favorites, Elysia are all set to release a sophisticated looking saturation plugin called Karacter.
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Swedish Plug-Meisters Softube have finally created a reel to reel tape plugin – something that fans of the company are understandably excited about. ‘Tape’ features models of three different machines of diverse character and is apparently very light on CPU.
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the 354e looks like it could be a dream prescription for the ITB Mastering community. A multiband, mid/side capable, sidechain HPF featured, mix knob equipped, 3 compression mode monster of a compressor plugin.
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IK Multimedia’s new virtual instrument, Syntronik is a standalone collection of seventeen classic synths that are available as a collection or as separate modules.
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Console 1 Mk II always looked like a great idea but for many it has never been regarded as a serious option because of it’s one-of-a-kind nature and unproven status. Well that’s all changed now.
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Insane French C++ scientist, Xavier Oudin goes nadgers to the wall with the new Xils-Lab PolyM – a beautifully rendered reconstruction of the little known 70’s Poly Moog.
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Black Rooster Audio’s SC-5 VCA compressor pays homage to the 70’s version of Ashly’s SC-50 Blueface compressor which has long been coveted by engineers for its versatility and unique musicality.
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The Volko Q3D is an emulation of the hardware, NTI Nightpro EQ3D rack mount equalizer. This 6 band eq has an extremely wide Q, for broad strokes.
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Tapedesk is a new plugin from Italian audio-gurus, Overloud. According to their blurb, it is “…a hyper-realistic simulation of a 2-inch 24-track world-class tape machine from a renowned studio in the UK.”
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Black Rooster Audio’s VEQ-5 is faithfully modeled after the legendary Pultec MEQ-5 Program Equalizer. Unlike its full range sibling the Pultec EQP-1A,. It’s an excellent choice for guitars, (acoustic and electric) vocals, upright bass and snare, as well as any other instrument occupying that sonic space.
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A gorgeous, multiband, Mid-Side mastering compressor form Plugin Alliance member, Lindell Audio. Based on the vintage Neve® 2254ETM diode bridge compressor, it is certainly a looker.
Read more Black Rooster Audio’s SC-5 VCA compressor pays homage to the 70’s version of Ashly’s SC-50 Blueface compressor which has long been coveted by engineers for its versatility and unique musicality.
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It’s always nice to have kickass plugin emulations to use in tandem with the real hardware – enter the Black Rooster Audio VLA-2A
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