Spotify has begun opening uploading not just to labels and distributors, but individual artists. And the implications of that could be massive, if the service is expanded – or if rivals follow suit.

Music, film/TV, games… yes. But another frontier is opening for sound design you might not expect: cars. That has led automaker Jaguar to sound designer Richard Devine, and that in turn means when this Jag accelerates, it sounds like it’s headed into hyperdrive, bound for the outer rim.

Ferrite Recording Studio 2.0 is perfect for podcasters with a range of new features for Pro users, plus some improvements for everyone

Now there are more options for what to do with your playful creations in Lily, including exporting high quality audio and video too

DJ Player EM 2.0 brings a host of improvements to the interface and more, for this streamlined version of DJ Player Professional

Call it the virtual reality microphone … or just think of it as an evolution of microphones that capture sounds more as you hear them. But mics purporting to give you 3D recording are arriving in waves – and they could change both immersive sound and how we record music.

Gestrument Pro arrives in a week, and it is a quantum leap forward from the original, which is still a great app. Pro takes all that was good in the original and augments and takes that forward

Who doesn’t like a bitcrusher right? Now there’s Degrader from Klevgränd produkter AB, which is both a bitcrusher and a resampler for achieving lofi fx

Woodman’s Immaculate Maple Syrup Studio, the developer who brought us Woodpressor brings us a new app and audio unit v3 called WoodnGate

And now there’s another 2 new audio units from 4Pockets to add to their growing range of audio units. The new AUv3’s are a new stereo reverb, and an auto-wah