Arturia’s JUN-6 is a free chorus plugin based on the iconic Juno synth

One of the most cherished chorus effects ever isn’t some piece of expensive studio rack gear or a guitar pedal with piles of knobs. Instead its the almost painfully simple chorus unit built into Roland’s ‘80s era Juno synths. Arturia’s new V Collecti...

Arturia’s flagship instrument bundle is getting a major upgrade…

In the world of softsynths Arturia’s V Collection and Analog Lab are two of the best bangs for your musical buck. (The fact that they frequently go on sale for half price doesn’t hurt, either.) And today both are getting major upgrades. Though, there...

Native Instruments crams its powerful music-making software in a standalone groovebox

Basically everyone in the music world right now is trying to break away from the PC. It’s not that DAWs and VSTs don’t have their place. But there’s a growing desire to put actual hardware in front of people and all the better if that hardware works...

Amped Studio offers ‘experimental’ VST plugin support for its online DAW

Online digital audio workstation (DAW) music production apps are always hamstrung because they can’t use powerful VST plugins that offer noise reduction, auto-tune or sampled instruments.Amped Studio has announced that it has solved that problem, alb...

Overbridge 2 tears down the wall between your PC and your synth

For die hard fans of Elektron, Overbridge is both a boon and an endless source of frustration. Overbridge is the company’s software suite that’s supposed to seamlessly integrate their musical instruments with your computer. By all accounts, when it w...