FL Studio 20.9 drops with new effects, undo everything, expanded Apple M1 plug-in support

FL Studio users got a nice solstice gift – lots of new features, covered in their lifetime updates plan.

Review: MOD Dwarf is a lush, bottomless portal to effects that keeps getting better

If you love software, if you love the imaginative and compositional choices it affords, at last hardware is embodying that same freedom. Few devices do that more elegantly than the MOD Dwarf. MOD’s place in the sound galaxy You know the story as far as need. You like having all those choices of different effects […]

Peter Kirn - October 8, 2021

Attacco turns any mic – and any surface – into expressive percussive music input

Attacco’s Virtual Controller, now in beta, makes anything into a percussive MIDI controller – not just for triggers, but expression, too. And you don’t need special hardware, either.

Peter Kirn - September 27, 2021

Top music gear news from Superbooth 2021 – the CDM monster guide

Peter Kirn - September 22, 2021

VCV Rack adds Drums right now – analog-modeled modular drum machine for $30

Peter Kirn - September 14, 2021

If you’re willing to void your warranty, you can make Erica’s Pico DSP run some epic effects

Peter Kirn - September 9, 2021

You can now patch in Pd inside VCV Rack – modular modular free free

Peter Kirn - July 23, 2020

A bass and drum machine, inside your KORG hardware, with Sinevibes’ Groove plugin

Peter Kirn - June 11, 2020

Op-ed: KORG has transformed synthesizers by letting them run plug-ins, says Sinevibes

Artemiy Pavlov - November 20, 2019

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