Piastrone is a perfect, playable reverb for Ableton Live – even when other reverbs fail

Plenty of reverbs will flood you with sound or bathe you in shimmering tails. Fewer are controllable in multiple situations, or manage to balance lushness and precision. For that, we head to Rome and Isotonik Studio’s new Piastrone. We get not only an Ableton Max for Live gem, but a master class in reverb design […]

Here’s a DIY plate reverb, hacked out of IKEA parts for under $100

Can’t afford a pricey plate reverb? Use some IKEA shelving and piezos and get something that sounds amazingly good in this simple DIY tutorial. Best of all – you can do it for under $100 in parts, and it’s not a complex build.

Peter Kirn - August 30, 2022

Soundtoys gets full native Apple Silicon support, for some evergreen effects

Soundtoys has announced full support for its complete suite of effects on Apple Silicon. So let’s use that as an excuse to go over some favorite tools here, as I’ve been … just rinsing these things again on projects.

Peter Kirn - March 28, 2022

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

Peter Kirn - June 8, 2021

Free reverb: Arturia has a holiday giveaway of their take on the classic EMT-140 plate

Peter Kirn - December 19, 2019

Get a terrific Little Plate reverb from Soundtoys, free

Peter Kirn - November 8, 2017

UAD’s EMT Plate is Basically Magic; Watch Videos Explain

Peter Kirn - June 17, 2015

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