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Thursday July 3, 2025. 05:00 PM
plugins “If you want to turn sweet sounds into ear-splitting discordance, this is the plugin”: To mark Plugin Week, here’s our pick of the most out-there sound design plugins you should add to your collection
From wonky reverbs, complex motion designers and dehumanisers, this assortment of tools will take your music into places you never thought possible
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quot My five most-used plugins are all part of Sweetwater’s up to 80% off sale - here’s what makes them essential for my workflow
I use these plugins on almost every project, and you can get them with up to $250 off
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how “It’s marketing. It’s trolling”: AI band The Velvet Sundown are an ‘art hoax’, confirms 'spokesman'
But does it matter?
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our "For real-time plugins, it’s very hard to do something effective with AI. It’s very good at big brush things”: Leapwing Audio on their stable of forensic mix plugins
Leapwing's intuitive, incisive plugins let users perform forensic mix surgery with ease and emulate the tones of iconic producers.
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plugin “Years of research, development and deep love of FM synthesis has gone into picking just the right balance of flexibility and simplicity”: Pivot is a ‘no-nonsense’ FM synth plugin from the designer behind one of our favourite hardware instruments
With three operators, no algorithms and a morphing filter, Pivot aims to make FM user-friendly – and you can try a Lite version for free
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are “Almost everyone thinks it’s strings”: Lorde unmasks the unusual guitar part on her new album that was created using a classic ‘90s Roland V-Guitar processor that’s now “insanely expensive” on the second-hand market
Plus, the Teenage Engineering OP-1 patch that “shows up everywhere” on the record
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them “I know there’s going to be at least one more gig - I'm not looking forward to putting the setlist together”: Joe Perry is convinced his band will play again, despite retirement from touring
He suggests that Steven Tyler would be able to take part
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what “We wrote it in a farmyard in France. We’d never heard of ‘disco music’ at the time. We were singing about the state of the times, and the human condition”: How the Bee Gees channelled angst and despair to create the greatest dancefloor-filler of all tim
Ah, ah, ah, ah...
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pro audio “If your flanger is too harsh, try a chorus - if it's too subtle, try a phaser”: How modulation effects work and how to use them
Phasing and flanging are often confused. We ask why - and demystify!
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audio “How is a clear CD even possible? The data is written on the silver part?”: It’s clear to see that Lorde’s see-through Virgin CD doesn’t play in most CD players
Fans take to social media to share a string of disappointing ‘No Disc’ errors after giving Lorde's latest a spin
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music "It’s simple enough to create the perfect hard-tuned and harmonised effects within our DAW, providing you have the right software": How to harness hard-tuned vocals
That hard-tuned, robot-like sound, first popularised by Cher, has now become something of a staple in modern pop
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Wednesday July 2, 2025. 11:53 PM
news “Bound to capture djent and thall-loving audiences because of the fine balance of brutality, customisation, and ease-of-use”: Atlas DSP – Your Last Steps review
The new kid on the block delivers its first hard-hitting amp sim, which is tailor-made for brutal noise making and modern metal grit – just don’t call it the blues
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proaudio 5 innovative synth plugins daring to do things differently
Unconventional and creatively inspiring, these soft synths are pushing synthesis in bold new directions
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musician "I want to make something that allows people to express themselves purely and not feel like they’re having to make compromises": Musik Hack on their quest to refine plugin UI design
We sit down with Musik Hack co-founder Sam Fischmann to hear more about the philosophy behind its superb mastering plugin
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studio "We have mended broken bones and broken hearts. But we have followed this road together, with each other, for each other, no matter what": Foo Fighters mark their 30th anniversary with a new song
Today's Song was released... today
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pro audio news “Doing this makes me feel like he's always going to be here with me”: Meet the guitarist who’s worked his dad’s ashes into his Telecaster
'This way he will still be with me at all the shows and this has given me a sense of closure,' he says
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pro audio news headlines “Everyone comes back changed”: Bicep on their new collaborative project with Inuit musicians
Takkuuk premieres tomorrow in London
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plugins “We are honoured to show our love for Ozzy and Black Sabbath”: Judas Priest might not be playing at Back To The Beginning but they have just saluted the OG metal gods with a cover of War Pigs
Also, is that Pelham Blue Les Paul Custom a new signature model for Richie Faulkner?
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quot “It’s great for squeezing energy out of lacklustre ambient sounds”: Our pick of the very best VCA compressor software emulation plugins for any music project
Our resident mixing expert Jon Musgrave, serves up his go-to toolkit for compressing with the best of them
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how “Sometimes I’m surprised by what I can do now, because I could not sing”: As she prepares to release her new album, Vie, Doja Cat says that she now has a lot more knowledge of how to use her voice “as an instrument”
She also calls out people who enjoy pop music but “don’t respect it or what it is”
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