Music Production
Cherry Audio updates Trident Mk III and Mercury-8 synthesizers
Cherry Audio has announced an update to its software synthesizer that recreates the iconic multitimbral experience of the 1981 Trident...
SHIMA on using Kontakt to reimagine Japanese tradition in modern electronic music
Kotos are massive, expensive instruments with very few players worldwide. It is not as common as the guitar, so it...
New Music Gear Monday: Klevgrand Parrot Audio Repeater Plugin
Sometimes you finish a mix and everything about it is great – but there’s still something missing. It needs some...
Black Octopus Sound releases Christmas Starter Deck Sampler with 3 GB of FREE sounds
Black Octopus Sound has released Christmas Gift – Starter Deck Sampler, a huge free sample pack available for a limited...
Shadow library claims it “backed up Spotify” – all 300TB of it
Anna’s Archive, the open source search engine for shadow libraries, has announced it has effectively “backed up Spotify” – archiving...
Free textural ambient reverb plugin by Dawesome & S1gns Of L1fe
Tracktion has announced a free textural effects engine created in collaboration with Chris Bryant aka S1gns Of L1fe.Built around the...
Why Your Mix Sounds Smaller After Export (And How to Fix It)
You finish a mix. Inside the DAW it slaps — punchy, wide, energetic.You export it… and suddenly it sounds flatter,...
Absynth 6 Preset Explorer: where AI meets musical intuition
2. A navigable sound space The Preset Explorer introduces a spatial approach to browsing. Instead of presenting presets as a...
2025 Year-End Recap Of The Biggest Music Stories On My Latest Podcast
2025 was wild. Is the music business finally changing for good? In this solo edition of Bobby Owsinski’s Inner Circle,...
Acustica Audio releases STONE, a FREE tone-shaping channel strip
Acustica Audio has released STONE, a free tone-shaping channel strip plugin for macOS and Windows. STONE is an Acqua plugin...
