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5 innovative synth plugins daring to do things differently
By Stuart Adams published
Unconventional and creatively inspiring, these soft synths are pushing synthesis in bold new directions

“Whether you’re looking to liven up a dull snare or beef up a lacklustre bass sound, these plugins are extremely handy”: Our resident platinum award-winning mixer and producer shares 10 of his go-to plugins
By Jon Musgrave published
Our picks of the modern virtual tools that will trans
form any self-sustaining producer’s workflow

With up to 92% off plugins and software, Plugin Boutique just gave you the best excuse to upgrade your productions
By Matt McCracken published
Cure your post-NAMM blues with a huge selection of
discounted plugins from just $/£5

"It's probably closer to the real hardware than anything out there": 5 of the coolest free plugins we discovered this month
By Matt Mullen published
Our monthly round-up of free plugins continues with spherical synths, feline delays and a killer take on
the Yamaha CS-80

“Try this on drums, and you'll end up with something similar to a classic gated drum kit. Eat your heart out, Phil Collins!”: Our go-to plugins for adding flavour to sounds
By Roland Schmidt published
With so much processing available in modern DAWs, we take a look at some of the more left-field plugins and approaches for maximising the colour of your audio signal

With up to 94% off at Plugin Boutique, these are the best plugin deals you’ll see for a while - here’s 5 picks from a mixing fanatic with 20 years in the home recording game
By Matt McCracken published
Now’s the perfect time to upgrade your plugin collection with this ginormous sale at Plugin Bout
ique

"I never want the sample to be the whole thing - I want to mask it": Loukeman reveals his favourite plugins and unusual production techniques
By Matt Mullen published
Toronto-based producer Loukeman talks his new project Sd-2, sampling techniques and unconventional effects processing

"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
By Andy Price published
Leapwing's intuitive, incisive plugins let users perform forensic mix surgery with ease and emulate the tones of iconic producers.

How to emulate a classic analogue recording system entirely with plugins
By Jon Musgrave published
It’s entirely likely that you could recreate many legacy analogue set-ups with just a few chained plugins. Here, we’ll show you how to get started

Fantastic (free) plugins and how to use them: Full Bucket FB-3300
By Jon Musgrave published
Classic synthesizer plugins offer a great entry point for unusual and rare synth designs, and this Korg design is one of the rarest

Fantastic (free) plugins and how to use them: Vital
By Jon Musgrave published
Wavetable takes on spectral warping features and more in a wonderfully contemporary synthesizer

Modalics' Plugin Buddy is a free plugin host and utility that lets you run VST3s in Pro Tools - and much more
By Matt Mullen published
Use Plugin Buddy to create complex chains of MIDI effects, audio effects and instruments that

5 of the coolest free plugins we discovered this month
By Matt Mullen, Ben Rogerson published
This month, we've got experimental delays, high-end exciters and spectral synth plugins

“You’ll find it in everything from the Prodigy to Skrillex”: How to get famous sounds and effects using only Logic’s stock plugins
By Jon Musgrave published
If you’ve got Logic, you’re already more than capable of recreating Skrillex’s manipulated reverb, Billie Eilish’s formant shifting and much more…

14 of the best plugins and DAWs you can use on Linux
By Stuart Adams published
We continue our adventure into the world of Linux-based music-making with a round-up of the best Linux-friendly software tools

Fantastic (free) plugins and how to use them: Newfangled Audio Pendulate Chaotic Synth
By Jon Musgrave published
This free mono synth plugin is creative, chaotic
and fun to use. It’s time to go West (Coast)

Spectral Plugins makes three of its plugins free to download as it closes its doors: "It has been an honour serving you"
By Andy Jones published
The company's three plugins worth $210 are now free in exchange for your email address

"The perfect tool for textures, beds and drone effects": Fantastic (free) plugins and how to use them – Supermassive
By Jon Musgrave published
Go large, as we explore the varied capabilities of ValhallaDSP's must-have delay-and-reverb plugin

17 outstanding plugins that you can still get for under $50 this Cyber Monday - but be quick, the sales end soon!
By Si Truss last updated
Forget high-end hardware or mammoth bundles – these are our favourite Cyber Monday music software bargains to be had for little more than pocket change

"It will drag out your inner Brian Eno with frightening ease": Soundtoys makes some of the best effects plugins we've ever tested, and they're discounted by up to 75% for Black Friday
By Matt Mullen published
Soundtoys 5.5 is available for $360 off RRP and you can save 61% on the new SpaceBlender reverb

“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
By Jon Musgrave published
Our resident mixing expert Jon Musgrave, serves up his go-to toolkit for compressing with the best of them

6 of the best free plugins for sound design
By Andy Jones published
Need some extra sound design firepower but lack the funds? Here are six to download (actually more!)

"A lot of instruments feel like interacting with a spreadsheet - we're trying to do something different": Void & Vista's plugins are 'pieces of art for people to make art with'
By Andy Price published
We sit down with the brains behind Strands and Folds, two Kontakt instruments that caught our attention with a wildly imaginative approach to sound design

u-he at Synth Week 2024: "Our plugins are not only fun to use, but they have more than enough depth to satisfy the most discerning musicians, composers and producers"
By MusicRadar Team published
And why the latest version of Hive is a "sound designer's dream"

The incredibly powerful plugin we called "one of the greatest effects plugins ever made" is half price for Cyber Monday
By Matt Mullen published
Output Portal is 50% off at Plugin Boutique along with two more of the company's most popular effects, Thermal and Movement

“The world’s most authentic amp models, no UA hardware required”: Universal Audio releases its industry standard UAFX amp modelling pedals as plugins
By Jonathan Horsley published
The Dream ’65, Lion ’68 and Ruby ’63 brought golden age Fender, Marshall and Vox tube amp tones to our pedalboards – and are now available to run natively on Mac and Windows



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