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Reason Studios has now made its flagship product, Reason 11, available for purchase. This major upgrade not only introduces six new devices, but also allows you to use the Reason Rack as a plug-in for use in any DAW supporting VST3 (with AU support coming later this year). The new upgrade features: Quartet Chorus Ensemble: […]
At its 2019 keynote yesterday, Apple unveiled the new iPhone 11 Pro and entry-level iPad alongside a slew of releases and updates. While the world was swept up in the new gear announcements, Apple’s upcoming operating system, macOS Catalina, has been making headlines of its own. The current warning from most music software makers is […]
Price XX Contact Korg Korg’s Gadget was the DAW that dragged me kicking and screaming into music-making on an iPad. I’d resisted the temptation for a while, perhaps rather snobbishly looking down my nose at iOS music-making. Gadget changed that. It’s essentially a suite of synths and drum machines and a very […]
Propellerhead has announced Reason 11, a major update that sees its flagship DAW available as a plug-in version known as Reason Rack Plugin. The Swedish music software company has also officially changed its name to Reason Studios to better align its flagship product with brand identity. Here are the details. Reason 11 This standout feature […]
Price £841 (upgrade and crossgrade pricing available) Contact Steinberg In the years leading up to the Millennium, DSP-accelerated Pro Tools systems dominated the DAW market for high-end music studios and TV/film post-production studios. There were good reasons for this: rock-solid stability, high I/O channel counts, very low-latency monitoring with effects on monitored […]
Akai Professional has debuted the Force Beta Testing Program, a phase that lets the brand trial the integration of its Force controller with Ableton Live. The program invites Beta testers to communicate with each other and the Akai Professional development team in a private forum. With this much-anticipated integration, Force users will be able to […]
PreSonus aims to bring the power of a large production console to small-format digital mixing with their new flagship StudioLive 64S. Sporting 76 mixing channels, 32 preamps and 43 buses, the console is made for mixing high channel count live sound, installation, mobile recording and the studio. What’s interesting about the StudioLive 64S is that […]
Back at Superbooth 2019, Ableton unveiled the beta version of CV Tools, a pack of 10 modules that afford you control of modular gear from Live 10. The German brand has now announced a fully fledged version of CV Tools, which is available as a free download for users of Ableton’s Live 10 Suite. CV […]
Just over a year ago, Image-Line celebrated the 20th anniversary of its flagship DAW with FL Studio 20. There have been a few updates since but the latest, v20.5, seems to be the biggest yet. Along with interface tweaks and plug-in updates, v20.5 brings with it the FLEX synth plug-in that was previously available only […]
Soundtrap, the maker of the cloud-based DAW of the same name, has announced that the free version of its service, Soundtrap Basic, now lets users save an unlimited number of multi-track projects. The company had previously limited that number to five unless you were a paid subscriber. The Basic version now offers access to over […]