Sinevibes Whirl phaser now has tempo sync, bidirectional stereo width

Whirl, the delightful barber-pole phaser effect (and its seemingly endlessly swirling peaks) now has added two crucial features: syncable frequency, and bidirectional stereo width. That makes this already terrific and accessible effect tool even more useful.

Dedalus Delay “delay mangler” plug-in packs in modulation, granulation

It seems to be a season of digital delays, but this is something different. Dedalus is a creation of some beloved devs and experimentalists. They’ve combined delay with distortion, modulation (with drawable curves), and tons of granulation – all in a one-window UI. Calling it a “delay” almost seems like missing the point.

Peter Kirn - March 10, 2023

CLAP is a new open-source plug-in format from Bitwig, u-he – do we need it, and who will use it?

Bitwig and plug-in maker u-he today are announcing a new plug-in format into beta, dubbed CLAP, for CLever Audio Plug-in API. It’s open and has features missing from the leading proprietary formats – and boasts some significant support at launch. So what will that mean for you?

Peter Kirn - June 15, 2022

V Collection 8.2 – Apple M1, faster GUIs, tuning support, and it’s 50% off for Black Friday

Peter Kirn - November 25, 2021

OB-Xd 2.0: Open Oberheim-inspired synth for Mac, Windows, Linux adds loads of improvements

Peter Kirn - August 4, 2020

The guts of Tracktion are now open source for devs to make new stuff

Peter Kirn - November 16, 2018

Mammut is free software that does completely insane things to sounds

Peter Kirn - February 27, 2018

This low-latency OS could change how music gear is made

Peter Kirn - January 30, 2018

Ableton have now made it easy for any developer to work with Push 2

Peter Kirn - June 9, 2017

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