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SIGNALS: Don Slepian and Saapato

SoundtoysMakersSIGNALS: Don Slepian and Saapato We had the pleasure of hosting Don Slepian at Soundtoys HQ for an intimate performance & conversation with the legend himself. {"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/www.soundtoys.com\/signals-don-slepian-s

Soundtoys Users Donate $61,000 to Médecins Sans Frontières

SoundtoysMakersSoundtoys Users Donate $61,000 to Médecins Sans Frontières Soundtoys users have come together to raise $61,000 for Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) – all through purchasing Radiator. MSF provides emergency medical care in more than 70 countries, deliverin

Don’t Stop Giving

SoundtoysMakersDon’t Stop Giving 100% of each Radiator purchase will be donated to not-for-profit organizations so that Soundtoys, along with our users, can help people in need. This is an ongoing pledge since March 9, 2022. From time to time we will se

Make Noise Against Hate: $28,500 Raised to Protect LGBTQIA+ Rights

SoundtoysMakersMake Noise Against Hate: $28,500 Raised to Protect LGBTQIA+ Rights In June 2025, we launched a Pride campaign to support Lambda Legal , the nation’s oldest and largest legal organization working for full recognition of the civil rights of LGBTQ+ people and everyone living with HIV. We’r

SpaceBlender 5.5.2 Update

SoundtoysMakersSpaceBlender 5.5.2 Update SpaceBlender updates are here! We’re excited to make our latest plug-in run even better in your DAW. Log into your Soundtoys account to download the latest installers. 5.5.2 Updates Fixed excessive cpu usage with tempo a

New! Soundtoys V5.5 Bundle

SoundtoysMakersNew! Soundtoys V5.5 Bundle What’s New in V5.5? Soundtoys 5.5 introduces SpaceBlender , our new experimental reverb, now fully integrated into Effect Rack. Create immersive environments, rich ambiences, and otherworldly spatial effects by layering

Resizable UIs Are Here!

SoundtoysMakersResizable UIs Are Here! We’ve updated all individual Soundtoys plug-ins with resizable user interfaces in version 5.5. Now you can scale each window to fit your workflow—whether you’re fine-tuning on a laptop or spreading out across a high-reso

New! SpaceBlender

SoundtoysMakersNew! SpaceBlender We’re proud to announce the release of SpaceBlender! SpaceBlender is an experimental reverb that lets you create unreal and imaginary spaces – shapes, textures, and tones otherwise impossible in the real world. Learn mor

Transforming Drums with PhaseMistress

SoundtoysMakersTransforming Drums with PhaseMistress Dive into the hidden depths of PhaseMistress and learn how you can add excitement to simple drum loops – or completely transform them – using the plug-in’s versatile saturation, modulation, and resonance controls. Soundt

Soundtoys 5.4.3 Update

SoundtoysMakersSoundtoys 5.4.3 Update We’re excited to announce Soundtoys version 5.4.3, with some crucial updates that should help everything run even more smoothly in your DAW. This update will apply fixes and improvements to all Soundtoys version 5 or lat

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XLR is a magazine, a radar and a diary about music gear and the making of music — for the people who make records and put on shows, wherever they do it.

The name is the three-pin connector that every signal in the business passes through: the microphone on stage and in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX cable that runs the lights. Studio, stage and lighting rig share it, and so does this magazine. Every few hours XLR collects what the makers shipped, what the reviewers heard, what the studios and the touring crews are doing, which producers and collectives are surfacing and what they are saying — synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lights, the rooms and the people — from a few hundred sources in English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese and more, then plots what is moving. The editor writes a letter every few days. Nothing is sold here; when a link leads to a shop, that is the maker's shop, not ours.