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Spectral Plugins are now free as maker goes out of business

Spectral Plugins, a relatively young plugin maker, has announced the end of its business. They're making their three excellent plugins...

The road to Synplant 2: the story behind this mind-bending plug-in sequel

Synplant 2: it's still leafy and organic - just more so. Now it has AI-powered sonic analysis and generation which...

Making Max for Live Devices work on Push and Push 3 standalone

With Ableton Push 3, Max for Live effects, instruments, sequencers, and other tools can work on standalone hardware - even...

Leap Motion is back, so you can add 3D gestures for $139 – with or without a VR headset

An inevitable effect of the renewed mixed reality and Apple hype is sure to be refueling interest in other devices....

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...

Universal Control hits macOS, iPadOS, integrating devices and a huge boon to devs and makers

If you produce anything that involves juggling Apple devices, Universal Control is now nearly ready for public consumption. Developers are...

Rymdigare for iOS combines FX in a fanciful UI and makes everything fuzzy and wonderful

There's a gently pastel-colored hand-drawn interface, a backstory involving extraplanetary mining. It's a reverb, a degrader and multi-effect, but also...

Now that Ableton Live is Apple Silicon-native, will your plug-ins and tools still work?

Ableton Live 11.1 beta means a native version of the host that can take full advantage of the hardware inside...