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?
IK Multimedia has ported Syntronik - one of its premier VI's, to iPad.
IK Multimedia updates T-Racks Mastering Suite to version 5 - including 4 brand new processors.
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
Arturia's new Keylab Essential MIDI controllers destroy the notion that the words 'budget' and 'pro' are mutually exclusive.
A brand new mixing and mastering bundle was released this morning by hot new dev, Audified.
The emulation masters at Brainworx and Plugin Alliance have just released both E and G series SSL channel strips
Soundiron Bontastic! Review
KONTAKT LIBRARYREVIEW July 2, 2017 0
Soundiron’s Bontastic! Vintage Organ Series is modeled after the Bontempi B4 Electronic Table organ. Bontastic! offers two instruments, a chord organ and ambience.
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.
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
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.
Plugin Alliance favorites, Elysia are all set to release a sophisticated looking saturation plugin called Karacter.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
It’s always nice to have kickass plugin emulations to use in tandem with the real hardware - enter the Black Rooster Audio VLA-2A
