Baby Audio has been one of our favorite audio software teams of the last couple of years (we featured their Super VHS in our ‘How To Make A Late ’70s/Early ’80s Sounding Album‘). Spaced Out is their new plugin (yay!), and according to the company, it’s a lush wet-FX generator…
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Textural Libraries: Stone and Glass by Murst Instruments
Murst Instruments is a new audio software company, created by Stu Sibley, composer and sound designer. The company’s mission is “to make tools that are inspiring and immediate, that blend acoustic and electronic sound sources with a flexible and intuitive approach.” I don’t know about you, but these words certainly…
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Riffer 3 Review – A Major Update For The MIDI Idea Generator
Audiomodern’s Riffer is an idea generator or, in technical terms, a smart MIDI tool (for both iOS and desktop platforms) that creates sequences and unique melodies (see our original Riffer feature to learn more about it). Riffer was initially released in 2015. Over the past five years, the Audiomodern team…
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Chromaphone 3 Review – A Great Leap Forward
Applied Acoustics Systems (AAS) have recently released Chromaphone 3, the new version of their acoustic object synthesizer plug-in. In our Chromaphone 2 review, back in 2016, our collaborator praised the software for being a “formidable offering in the field of acoustically modelled synthesis”. Chromaphone 3 is an evolution of the…
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iZotope Ozone 9 Review – The Evolution Of Mastering
Izotope’s flagship mastering software has gone through a couple of iterations since our Ozone 7 review. I took the current version, Ozone 9, through its paces to see how it’s evolved. Izotope has, over the last several years, put a ton of R&D into the use of AI in their software….
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Wide Blue Sound Elysium Review – Motion and Emotions
Elysium is an organic motion synthesizer from Wide Blue Sound, creators of Orbit and Eclipse. Wide Blue Sound specialise in making synths with great controllable movement and texture. Aimed mainly at media composers the libraries are also useful well beyond that sphere. Elysium is a Kontakt instrument. It’s a layered…