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Get an ultra-realistic modeled cymbal plug-in for free: CHAIR EXC!TE CYMBAL
Chair Audio quietly launched a new plug-in, and it’s both free and wonderful. EXC!TE CYMBAL is, no exaggeration, realistic enough that you’ll do a double-take knowing this is a physical model and not in any way sampled.
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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 […]
Peter Kirn - March 29, 2023
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IRCAM ASAP plug-in suite transforms and remixes sounds; part of it is free
Some of that brain-bending research from Paris’ famed IRCAM is coming your way in plug-in form – even (partly) for free. It’s a spectral remixing, sound morphing, audio shaping powerhouse that landed from some advanced alien civilization, but it’s usable by humans, whether we’re ready for this power or not.
Peter Kirn - December 19, 2022
Music tech Software Tech
Over a decade, female festivals acts have tripled, says female:pressure; now what’s next
Peter Kirn - March 8, 2022
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In Glacier Music, sounds and songs capture urgency, deeply-felt and real
Peter Kirn - November 5, 2021
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