Hardware for the masses: The Aira Compact polysynth is inspired by the legendary Roland SH-101, capturing the sound of Voodoo Ray in a compact AIRA compatible tweak synth.

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A storied company continues to gut staff and reportedly shift product manufacturing overseas under new ownership.

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DJs and producers and others pooling storage were violating TOS all along.

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Velvet Machine is simple but not ordinary. It is one of several plugins designed by Yuri Turov which manipulates a sound by stretching and blurring it, somewhat similar to continuous reverb.

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Want to listen to a wav or aiff file on your iPhone? Flacbox is a cheap, simple app that makes it easy.

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The best kept secret of the iOS platform, Zeeon from BeepStreet runs like a charm on Mac and macOS too.

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What can you expect from a $100 MIDI controller? It's small, it's compact, but the MiniLab 3 is made by Arturia and that counts for a lot.

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French company Focal's Bathys wireless headphones with noise cancellation features are priced to challenge Apple for the HiFi mobile market.

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Audulus is a very flexible synthesizer programming environment. It’s a toolbox for creating your own synthesizers, sound effects, filters - anything that has to do with creation or manipulation of sound

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AI-based sampling apps are proliferating but the music industry is sharpening their knives.

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