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Freesound BlogDAW & pluginsMIRLCa-web: Live-coding with Freesound in the web browser [Guest blog post by Nikhil Bullock] As part of my thesis for the Sound and Music Computing Masters programme at Queen Mary University of London this summer, I implemented MIRLCa-web, a port of the…

10.08

Freesound BlogDAW & pluginsIntroducing Freesound “Collections” Hi everyone, We are very happy to announce the introduction of a new feature called “Collections”. This is a new way to group sounds that complements “Packs”, and that fully replaces the “Bookmarks”…

09.08

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Freesound BlogDAW & pluginsNew “Generative AI preferences” panel Hi everyone, Back in June 2024 we published the Freesound in the era of generative Artificial Intelligence blog post in which we were discussing some thoughts about how Freesound and the community…

07.10

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Freesound BlogDAW & plugins“20 years of sound sharing at Freesound, the prominent international project founded at the UPF” news article by UPF The Universitat Pompeu Fabra (of which the Phonos Foundation and Freesound are part of) has published a comprehensive article titled 20 years of sound sharing at Freesound, the prominent…

06.04

Freesound BlogDAW & plugins20th Anniversary Composition Contest submissions available online Hi everyone! The Freesound 20th Anniversary Composition Contest was launched on February 2025, by Fundació Phonos and the Freesound team. For the record, terms for participation are available here.

04.27

Freesound BlogDAW & plugins2025 in numbers Dear Freesounders, It looks like 2025 is already over, and many things have happened this year. We celebrated the 20th anniversary of Freesound with a composition contest, a sound installation, and…

01.30

Freesound BlogDAW & pluginsFreesound Day video recordings available online Hi everyone, As most of you know, on the 28th of October 2025 we celebrated the Freesound Day. The Freesound Day brought together members of the Freesound community for a full day of talks…

01.30

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Freesound BlogDAW & pluginsPreserving the sound of San Fermín in Pamplona/Iruña This year, Freesound celebrates its 20th anniversary, and Intangible Heritage has been chosen as the main theme of the celebration.

2025.12.22

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.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.