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Regroover is the AI-powered loop unmixer, now with drag-and-drop clips
You’ve sampled. You’ve sliced. You’ve warped. So what’s left to do with loops? Accusonus have turned to machine learning for a new answer.
Tour the goodies in Universal Audio 9.4 – including an Empirical Distressor
Universal Audio are here with their winter lineup – the latest processing tools for their hardware platform – now including a sought-after compressor.
Two new ways to integrate MeeBlip triode synths with Ableton Live, free
Software control means preset recall and easy automation, on top of all that tactile control. Here’s the latest combination of our MeeBlip and Max for Live.
Real underground: watch a live set in the Copenhagen metro
You’ve seen buskers in your subway, maybe, but odds are a full-on rave is a rarity. That’s what Strøm Festival and Anastasia Kristensen gave Copenhagen’s metro.
Get a terrific Little Plate reverb from Soundtoys, free
Soundtoys are on a short list of the best plug-in developers out there. Now through Nov. 22, you get their model of the classic EMT 140 plate, for free.
Deep knowledge and free sounds for the PO-32 pocket drum machine
Teenage Engineering’s PO-32 is a powerful drum synth, literally in a calculator form factor. Now you can learn more – and update its sounds – from YouTube.
Let’s talk about open tools at Ableton Loop and beyond
From libraries to circuits to hacks to instructions, a lot of you are sharing the stuff you make. We’re using Ableton Loop to bring some of you together.
Two sequenced Max for Live devices go off the usual grid
Will a step sequencer be a tool just for expected repetition? Or can it take you somewhere different? A series called “Out Of Grid” aims for the latter.
Now reassign those Novation Circuit knobs easily from the browser
Eight knobs and a grid turned out to be more powerful than you might imagine. Now you can edit those Novation Circuit patches more quickly.