Blamsoft Intros F-16 Filter For iPad, With 16 Filter Modes

Blamsoft has introduced F-16 Filter – a flexible multi-mode filter for iPad. F-16 Filter offers sixteen modes, frequency and resonance controls, saturation for analog-style soft clipping, and wet/dry mix. The 4 pole lowpass mode is designed to provide the frequency response of the Moog ladder filter. The other modes provide the choices available in the Oberheim Matrix 12… Read More Blamsoft Intros F-16 Filter For iPad, With 16 Filter Modes

January 31, 2016Leave a comment

Rogue Amoeba Intros Loopback Audio Routing App For Mac OS X

Rogue Amoeba has announced Loopback – a new Mac OS X app that is designed to make it easy to route audio between applications. Loopback gives you incredible control over how audio is routed between applications and devices on your Mac. It lets you create virtual audio devices to take the sound from applications and… Read More Rogue Amoeba Intros Loopback Audio Routing App For Mac OS X

January 30, 201613 Comments

Positive Grid Releases BIAS FX Standalone Plus MIDI / Automation Support

This week, Positive Grid announced their release of BIAS FX Standalone, the world’s “first and only” cross platform guitar amp-and-effects processor. Previously released as a desktop plug-in, BIAS FX now allows musicians to use it as a fully-functional standalone application for both Mac and PC, without the need of a DAW or any other software.… Read More Positive Grid Releases BIAS FX Standalone Plus MIDI / Automation Support

January 24, 2016January 20, 20165 Comments

SoniVox Announces Pitch2MIDI

At the 2016 NAMM Show: Virtual instrument and sythesis tech developers SONiVOX announced their “revolutionary” new Pitch2MIDI real-time audio-to-MIDI synthesizer and converter software. Designed with singers and (acoustic) instrumentalists in mind, Pitch2MIDI gives these artists the ability to play and record music with software virtual instruments. SONiVOX’s Pitch2MIDI software plugin doesn’t require the user to… Read More SoniVox Announces Pitch2MIDI

January 21, 2016January 19, 20167 Comments

Positive Grid Launches ‘Pro Series’ Plugins: Tube, Optical and Fet Compressors

Positive Grid today announced the launch of the Pro Series Studio Plug-ins – a series of revolutionary FET, Tube, and Optical compressors. Company officials say the Pro Series introduces profiling and component-based compression “for the first time ever” in a plug-in, allowing the user to accurately reproduce the many subtle nuances of classic and modern… Read More Positive Grid Launches ‘Pro Series’ Plugins: Tube, Optical and Fet Compressors

January 14, 2016January 14, 20163 Comments

Celemony Melodyne 4 Released Today

Today, Celemony releases the latest version of its Melodyne audio software. The company says that Celemony Melodyne 4 “constitutes the most extensive update to the entire product family in the company’s history,” with the emphasis on Melodyne 4 studio. Highlights of the updated Melodyne include the Polyphonic Spectrum Shaper, a sound editor with new sound… Read More Celemony Melodyne 4 Released Today

January 13, 2016January 13, 20165 Comments

PSP 2445 Emulates Early Digital Reverbs

PSP Audioware has introduced PSP 2445 – a reverb processor plug-in (VST, AAX and RTAS for Windows; AudioUnit, VST, AAX and RTAS for Mac OSX) that is inspired by two legendary early digital age reverberators: the EMT 244 and the EMT 245. Here’s what they have to say about it:

January 4, 20163 Comments

The Best New Mobile Music Apps Of 2015

Best of 2015: We asked and you voted on the Best New Mobile Music Apps of 2015. Synthtopia readers picked Olympia Noise Co’s Patterning Drum Machine as the best new mobile music app of 2015. Patterning could be the poster child using mobile devices for music, pairing polyrhythmic + polymetric power with a great UI and an surprisingly… Read More The Best New Mobile Music Apps Of 2015

January 1, 2016January 1, 201618 Comments

Free Warbling, Dysfunctional Delay Effect For iOS, Nebulizer

Developer Matthew Caldwell has released Nebulizer – a creative echo effect for iOS – as a free download. Here’s what he has to say about it:

December 31, 20151 Comment

u-he Intros Free ‘Experimental Reverb’, Protoverb

u-he has released Protoverb – an ‘experimental reverb’, based on the idea of a “room simulator”. Most algorithmic reverbs try to avoid resonances or model the reflections of sound from a rooms walls. Protoverb does the opposite. It builds up as many room resonances as possible, modeling the body of air in the room. It therefore… Read More u-he Intros Free ‘Experimental Reverb’, Protoverb

December 28, 2015December 28, 201510 Comments