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Arturia V Collection 11 hands-on: Pure LoFi, Jup-8000 join latest update
Arturia’s latest refresh of their sprawling V Collection is here today. In addition to updates across the Augmented line and the inclusion of the latest instruments, there are two surprises: a layered “lo-fi” synth and an instrument of the Roland JP-8000. Yes, really, the JP-8000: sometimes you want the 90s and 2000s and not only, like, the 70s and 80s.
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HyperSplash is glitchy hyperactive fun – $3 Max for Live from MIRA新伝統
If you don’t know the hyperfuturist post-anthropocene duo* MIRA新伝統 aka Honami Higuchi and Raphael Leray, you need to. But now for three bucks – $3!! – you can drop their absolutely addictive Max for Live mayhem into your Ableton Live set. Should you? You should.
Peter Kirn - April 23, 2025
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Nasko’s completely free N-IRIS is a spectrum disperser – why that’s cool
Nasko, the prolific and imaginative software developer, is back with a new one – and it’s completely free, running in Plug Data (Pd) on Mac, Windows, and Linux. It’s a convolution-based spectrum disperser. Say what? Well, you get a powerful, precise, fairly rare method for generating impulse responses for convolution tools, like Kilohearts Convolution (now on sale), the one just added to Serum 2, and more. Or just play it live, because that also sounds kind of awesome.
Peter Kirn - April 21, 2025
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Vela reverb, now in open beta, opens up rich reverbs you can reshape
Peter Kirn - April 14, 2025
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Ardour, the free and open DAW, is better than ever – and Ardour 9 is coming
Peter Kirn - April 8, 2025
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Reason’s classic ReCycle is updated, free, and more useful than you might think
Peter Kirn - April 2, 2025
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The best of Universal Audio’s native plug-ins, in Spark or standalone
Peter Kirn - March 30, 2025
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