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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.

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discoDSP releases Discovery Pro 9.3, OPL 3.1 synths, Bliss Sampler 3.23 and ThrillMe Compressor 3.13

September 14

discoDSP has announced four updates for their range of plugins. Discovery Pro loads Nord Sample Library files and plays stereo waves in stereo, Bliss imports sfArk and ReCycle REX, OPL gains an AN1x-style unison, and Thr

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