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.

← XLR MAG Archive

Synth and SoftwareDAW & plugins

MOTU Shipping OctaLite Compact USB audio Interface

10.21

From @synthandsoftware - OctaLite is a compact 16 x 12 half-rack USB audio interface for macOS, Windows and iOS with eight mic/line/instrument inputs, DSP mixing, and effects processing.

Synths Mics & outboard Synth studio peripherals MOTU

Read at Synth and Software ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

MOTU Shipping OctaLite Compact USB audio Interface

Related

DAW & pluginsDenormal Audio Launches Guardrail Synth and Software

DAW & pluginsNew PolyArp Dual Polyrhythmic MIDI Arpeggiator Synth and Software

DAW & pluginsNew Canopy Plate Reverb by Squaremoss Plugins Synth and Software

DAW & pluginsRoland Announces JUPITER-08 and n/vision Roland Boutique Instruments Synth and Software

DAW & pluginsArturia Introduces MiniFreak 49 Synth and Software

DAW & pluginsBob Moog Foundation Announces Online Fundraising Auction Featuring Moog Artwork, Collectibles and Memorabilia Synth and Software