Aircraft Designs is putting a full analog mastering suite into Eurorack

Don’t let front of house tell you you can’t crank your live set because it “isn’t mastered.” And don’t let the diminutive size of these modules fool you in the studio, either. Aircraft Designs, a group of young engineers from Ukraine, has built a promising take on signal processing with a series of Eurorack modules coming soon. Meet Processing System:

Universal Audio is giving away their 1176 compressor for Valentine’s Day

It’s a Valentine’s Day giveaway: UA is giving away their newest model plug-in, the UA 1176 Classic FET Compressor, today through February 28. This is the native plug-in that runs in any DAW.

Peter Kirn - February 14, 2025

Squeeze is a free upward compressor for Ableton Live – subtle to intense

We are awash with various dynamics tools these days, but don’t sleep on this. GMaudio is a deceptively simple upward compressor that you’ll want in your Ableton Live arsenal, as it can scale effortlessly from nuance to extreme. And it’s remarkable that it’s free; it almost feels like it fell out of an Ableton Live upgrade from a parallel universe.

Peter Kirn - September 15, 2023

Capitol Studios hand-built just four of these tube compressors – now UA has a plug-in

Peter Kirn - May 16, 2023

Linux gets native analog modeled plug-ins, Pultec emulations, with VST, VST3, and now – CLAP

Peter Kirn - August 24, 2022

Arturia FX Collection 2 is a fantastically deep set of audio effects with some new additions

Peter Kirn - June 8, 2021

Arturia’s 3 Compressors get creative, producer-friendly

Peter Kirn - April 10, 2019

SSL SiX is a compact version of that legendary console goodness

Peter Kirn - March 20, 2019

Audio Damage are bringing their plug-ins to iOS – and more

Peter Kirn - July 10, 2017

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