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Plugins & DAWs · 133 stories, +44 vs last week

Plugins & DAWs: 133 stories in seven days, +44 on the week before.

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DAW & pluginsFabula Audio releases Dungeon Dude, St. Mora and Haeloc’s Crook effect plugins Rekkerd

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TonebendersVoices383 - Live From New York, it's....... Tonebenders? New York City is a big market for audio post production and it has it's own quirks that make it unique.

Ultimate GuitarGuitarsNeil Young Never Changes His Old Black Guitar's Strings Until They Break, And It Shaped His Sound [News] Features : "Nobody cares if you know how to play scales."

Magnetic MagazineLive & DJThe 15 Best Tech House Tracks of October 2026 November’s tech house chart is a lively one, with plenty of chunky basslines, cheeky vocals and records that don’t take themselves too seriously.

RekkerdDAW & pluginsFabula Audio releases Dungeon Dude, St. Mora and Haeloc’s Crook effect plugins Fabula Audio has recently launched a collection of effect plugins for Windows, macOS and Linux (VST3, AU and AAX). Dungeon Dude is a dark reverb with a custom-built fuzz. St.

Rolling Stone IndiaAsiaNYFF 2026: On Cinema that Explores Artistic and Familial Legacy While watching Paul Thomas Anderson’s mesmeric Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall during the New York Film Festival , I thanked the cinema gods that PTA — as he has come to be known by his initials…

GearnewsGearAbleton Live 13 LEAK: A Funky New Step Sequencer and Multiple Devices! Videos of Ableton Live 13, which is still unreleased at this point, have leaked on YouTube, giving us some insight into some of the new features.

KVR Audio NewsDAW & pluginsWavea updates Flite to v2.2 Wavea has updated Flite to v2.2, which enables full pack building. Export your presets, samples and artwork as single file, give it its own look in the new UI Editor, and play it live with the new…

KVR Audio NewsDAW & pluginsRelab Development updates LX480 Dual-Engine Reverb to v4.1.1 and LX480 Essentials to v2.3.0 Relab Development has released updates for LX480 Dual-Engine Reverb and LX480 Essentials . LX480 Dual-Engine Reverb 4.1.0 (4.1.1) Version 4.1.0 brings a new Preset Manager, a freely resizable…

MusicRadarGear“To add energy and bring the power": Anika Nilles launches her new artist collection with thicker drumsticks Anika Nilles has teamed up with Evans and ProMark to launch the Anika Nilles artist collection. This is a limited run of percussion gear, designed in association with Nilles herself – many of the…

UK Jazz NewsEuropePancevo Jazz Festival 2026, Serbia The Pancevo Jazz Festival is held in a small town on the River Tamiš, north of the Serbian capital Belgrade.

TPi MagazineLive & DJYamaha introduces the DM5 Series to the market Why bring a product to market for the small- to mid-sized live sound sector? The live sound market is incredibly diverse across theatre, broadcast, live music and corporate AV.

TPi MagazineLive & DJNedAcoustics lifts the lid on the Venue Sound Baffle LT05 Can you tell us about NedAcoustics? We founded NedAcoustics, having learned over the past 20 years that there is a large demand for temporary acoustical measures.

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Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

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