It’s a cyber-technological future you can live now: a plug-in using sophisticated samples and rules that can make a plug-in sing like a Japanese pop star.

Plectrum is a new universal iOS app that emulates classic plucked string instruments. It works with USB and Bluetooth MIDI and works as an Audio Unit, too.

Dreadbox fans, something tasty is coming later this year. It’s an analog synth with Polyend-provided arpeggiator, sequencer, and MIDI-to-CV.

It’s some special sauce for your tube amp. Universal Audio’s new OX Amp Top Box sits atop your amp and aids in recording and sound. The concept: go anywhere, allow you to record at any volume (from off to quiet to really loud), and then model various mic and speaker cabinet emulations at what UA […]

BeatMaker 3 is set for release this weekend for the iPad. And it could win over more than just mobile die-hards. Here’s why:

Intermorphic update their generative flagship app Wotja 2017 with new ambient templates, updated synths, and a bunch of behind-the-scenes improvements.

Retronyms bring their popular iOS synth app Phase84 to the Android platform to engage whole new set of mobile music users.

This powerful tool – already in use in podcasting, radio journalism, and pro voiceovers – gets better. 1.6 brings updates for paid and free customers alike.

When you take the New York duo Blondes, and then remix them with Berlin duo Barker & Baumecker, that’s a lot of synth love in the single “KDM.”

Vatanator AU for iOS is coming, yep, an Audio Unit version of the popular iOS app is on it’s way. Here’s what it looks like, in a new video: