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News producer.news Monday, 19 October 2026

Archive

Every article on the site, 121 of them, newest first. The homepage carries what is recent and each section carries its own slice; this is the whole thing in one place.

October 2026

  1. 13 Oct Inharmonic partials: why a bar or a drum has a less certain pitch than a string Guide
  2. 13 Oct Release time: why the same fast release distorts the bass and leaves the mids clean Guide
  3. 13 Oct Linear-phase EQ: what the latency buys, and why the ringing moves in front of the note Guide
  4. 13 Oct Rupert Neve Designs' pulled plug-ins are back at v1.0.7, with the warning still up Effect
  5. 13 Oct AudioThing's Materia rebuilds samples from 96 partials and stores the model in the project Instrument
  6. 12 Oct Cableguys' TimeStop draws tape stops as automation, and can keep the beat Effect
  7. 11 Oct Rob Papen's Quad-2 gives its new ribbon a modulation matrix of its own Instrument
  8. 10 Oct Falcon 2027 turns the movement in an audio file into a modulation source Instrument
  9. 9 Oct Cherry Audio's Pentaphonic revives a synth that solved tuning with microprocessors Instrument
  10. 9 Oct Baby Audio's HyperWarp chops the signal and lets you redraw the order Effect
  11. 8 Oct Softube's Limit Pro can release the kick slower than the snare Effect
  12. 7 Oct Imaginando's COLAPSO builds its partials from measured atomic emission lines Instrument
  13. 3 Oct CARBON Q splits a reference track into four stems and EQs your mix against each Effect
  14. 1 Oct UA's new Volt range sells onboard compression and extra I/O at the same $299 Hardware

September 2026

  1. 29 Sept Spitfire and BT's Phoenix lets any sample act as an FM operator Instrument
  2. 26 Sept Stereo linking: the control that decides which channel pays Guide
  3. 25 Sept BLEASS and KERN both shipped reverbs that listen to the dry signal Effect
  4. 24 Sept Maschine 3.7 adds two kinds of note probability and a Euclidean sequencer DAW
  5. 23 Sept Scaler EQ Pro turns the notes you play into EQ bands Effect
  6. 22 Sept Leapwing CenterOne 3 adds multiband control and a sidechain to the phantom centre Effect
  7. 21 Sept Lunacy's NOVA is a free host for instruments that live in the cloud Instrument
  8. 21 Sept Acoustica 8 drops the noise-profile step from DeNoise and DeHum DAW
  9. 21 Sept Buffer size: the one setting you are supposed to change twice a session Guide
  10. 18 Sept MiniFreak V 5.0 takes your samples and converts them to 12-bit Instrument
  11. 18 Sept LUNA 3.0 puts stem separation in the free tier and caps it at four tracks DAW
  12. 18 Sept Ring modulation and frequency shifting: same number, different spectrum Guide
  13. 16 Sept Digital Performer 12 separates stems in-house and renders Atmos inside the DAW DAW
  14. 12 Sept ADSR: three of the four controls are times and one is not Guide
  15. 12 Sept Envelope followers: the modulation source that has no shape of its own Guide
  16. 12 Sept Hard sync: why it changes the harmonics without changing the note Guide
  17. 9 Sept Bass distortion: what changes when the sub goes through it too Guide
  18. 9 Sept FM ratios: why one number decides whether the harmonics follow the note Guide
  19. 9 Sept Dynamic EQ: why it reacts differently from a multiband compressor Guide
  20. 9 Sept EQ Q: why the same number does not give the same curve Guide
  21. 9 Sept Chorus: why it starts with a delay that will not sit still Guide
  22. 9 Sept Euclidean sequencing: steps, hits and rotation do three different jobs Guide
  23. 9 Sept AudioThing's Orbita runs eight rhythmic cycles that refuse to line up Instrument
  24. 5 Sept Xils Lab MemoryTone joins a crowded field of Memorymoog emulations Instrument
  25. 3 Sept TONEX Board merges TONEX and AmpliTube into one floorboard Hardware

August 2026

  1. 30 Aug Clipping and limiting: same peak, different waveform Guide
  2. 29 Aug Cherry Audio's Memorymode 2 doubles voices, adds MPE support Instrument
  3. 29 Aug Arturia's Pure SUB keeps the fundamental out of the distortion path Instrument
  4. 29 Aug Sidechain filtering: changing what the compressor hears, not what you hear Guide
  5. 28 Aug Polyend Keys turns a mechanical keyboard into a three-octave MIDI controller Hardware
  6. 28 Aug DAWs, honestly reviewed: six of them, by someone who has used them all DAW
  7. 28 Aug Reason Free puts 15 Rack devices in any DAW with no expiry Instrument
  8. 27 Aug Stereo correlation: what the meter is actually measuring Guide
  9. 26 Aug Bitwig Studio 6.1 turns Sampler into a slicer with five ways to cut DAW
  10. 25 Aug Move 2.1 bounces a MIDI clip to audio without stopping the transport Hardware
  11. 21 Aug Pittsburgh Modular shrinks the SV-1 semi-modular synth for 2027 Hardware
  12. 21 Aug MIDI clock: why 24 timing messages can still drift Guide
  13. 20 Aug MIDI velocity: why 64 is not half as loud as 127 Guide
  14. 19 Aug Behringer D Mini brings paraphonic Minimoog voicing Hardware
  15. 19 Aug Transient shapers: how attack and sustain controls find events Guide
  16. 19 Aug DC offset: why a shifted waveform costs usable headroom Guide
  17. 18 Aug Minimal Audio's Lucid is a granular multi-effect with two playback engines Effect
  18. 18 Aug Note priority: why held keys change a monosynth phrase Guide
  19. 17 Aug Gate hysteresis: how separate thresholds stop trigger chatter Guide
  20. 17 Aug Comb filtering: why a 1 ms delay cuts every other kilohertz Guide
  21. 16 Aug Crest factor: why equal peaks can behave completely differently Guide
  22. 15 Aug Audio Damage AD-202 turns the MC-202 into an 8-voice polyphonic synth Instrument
  23. 15 Aug Delay feedback: why 90 percent lasts much longer than 50 Guide
  24. 15 Aug True peak: why samples below zero can still clip Guide
  25. 14 Aug SinTH2 is a €5,800+ built-to-order synth with 60-voice polyphony Hardware
  26. 14 Aug Pan law: why a centred channel changes level while moving Guide
  27. 14 Aug Compressor ratio: what 2:1, 4:1 and 10:1 actually mean Guide
  28. 14 Aug Karno's SEPIA keeps the analogue and adds the recall, which is the other way round Hardware
  29. 13 Aug Why analogue sounds wider, and how much of it is components being slightly wrong Guide
  30. 13 Aug Manley's Dual EQ series is passive, which is exactly why it is full of tubes Hardware
  31. 13 Aug AudioScape's Rev Blue 76A rebuilds the noisy 1176, on purpose Hardware
  32. 12 Aug Diamond Color EQ 4 arrives with an AUTO control users are reading as a bug Effect
  33. 12 Aug Softube's Reference 1998 and 1956 are a Massive Passive and a Pultec, and cannot say so Effect
  34. 12 Aug HoRNet SpectraDuck does spectral ducking at 5 ms, which is the interesting number Effect
  35. 12 Aug AIR's Fabric Vintage Andromeda samples the Alesis A6, which is a different thing from modelling it Instrument
  36. 12 Aug The Dangerous Music BAX EQ plugin puts a 1952 hi-fi tone control on a mastering bus Effect
  37. 12 Aug MadeOnEarth's LedRover is a stereo diode distortion built around the TB-303 Hardware
  38. 11 Aug Two ways to put MIDI in a TR-808: a commercial mod and open-source firmware Hardware
  39. 8 Aug Reading a spectrum analyser without chasing it Guide
  40. 7 Aug Parallel compression: what the blend actually does to the ratio Guide
  41. 6 Aug Rave Generation's Master Bus Processor puts six master stages in one window Effect
  42. 6 Aug MONOCHORD plays a chord per key and sends the whole performance out as MIDI Instrument
  43. 6 Aug Audiocube Space moves 3D sources between separate plugin instances Effect
  44. 6 Aug Lookahead: why a limiter delays your audio to see a peak coming Guide
  45. 6 Aug Dither: what it fixes, and why it has to be the last thing you do Guide
  46. 5 Aug UAD's EMT 140 and 250 plate reverbs now run without Apollo hardware Effect
  47. 4 Aug Glitch² 2.1.5 goes free on all three platforms Effect
  48. 4 Aug ZL Spectrum Equalizer ducks every FFT bin against its matching sidechain bin Effect
  49. 3 Aug Vermona's drumDING samples its own analog voice into six tracks Hardware
  50. 3 Aug SSL's Odyssey puts instant recall behind an all-analogue signal path Hardware
  51. 3 Aug Pre-fader and post-fader sends: what the switch actually changes Guide

July 2026

  1. 28 Jul Nudging tracks off the grid: what moving a part 10 ms actually changes Guide
  2. 28 Jul Pitch and formants: why transposing a vocal changes more than the note Guide
  3. 28 Jul Hermetic Modular's Alchemy Lab is an open SDK Eurorack platform Hardware
  4. 27 Jul Mid/side processing: what the centre and sides really contain Guide
  5. 27 Jul NUSofting Dig Vox models a vocal tract instead of sampling a singer Instrument
  6. 27 Jul UDO DMNO lets two four-voice synths pass notes and audio between them Hardware
  7. 26 Jul Sidechain ducking: compressor or volume shaper, and when each one fails Guide
  8. 26 Jul Pre-delay: how to add reverb without pushing a vocal backwards Guide
  9. 25 Jul How to A/B a plugin honestly, and why louder always wins Guide
  10. 25 Jul ASM gives the Leviasynth sequencer a more musical way to evolve patterns Hardware
  11. 24 Jul Cytomic details The Glue 2's DBX 202 modelling and new harmonics control Effect
  12. 24 Jul OceanSwift's DevOcean Modular fits 140 modules into a standalone app Instrument
  13. 24 Jul Aliasing: why a distortion plugin can sound cheap for no obvious reason Guide
  14. 23 Jul Even and odd harmonics, and which saturation you actually want Guide
  15. 23 Jul Strymon's TimeLine MX adds a granular delay and runs two engines at once Hardware
  16. 23 Jul PEEL STEMS 2 cuts real-time stem-separation latency nearly in half Effect
  17. 23 Jul Baby Audio's SubCulture makes bass enhancement follow every note Effect
  18. 23 Jul SinTH2 puts 120 knobs on a 60-voice synth you can only order direct Hardware
  19. 22 Jul Soothe3: oeksound rebuilds the plugin half the industry mixes through Effect
  20. 22 Jul Three years late, Behringer's AKS Mini opens pre-orders at €119 Hardware
  21. 22 Jul Audio Damage's Tessera turns any audio into chords that stay in key Effect
  22. 22 Jul reFX confirms Rippler: Tilr's closed-source freeware synth goes commercial Instrument
  23. 22 Jul UAD 11.9 brings Black Box HG-2 and elysia karacter to Apollo DSP Effect
  24. 22 Jul Logic Pro 12.3 expands Beat Breaker and Alchemy DAW
  25. 22 Jul FL Studio 2026 rebuilds FLEX and lets Gopher edit your session DAW
  26. 22 Jul Behringer's JT-2 reaches Europe: one Jupiter-8 voice for €179 Hardware
  27. 22 Jul Filter slopes: what 12 dB and 24 dB per octave actually do Guide
  28. 22 Jul PSP BBDelay: Vintage BBD character Effect
  29. 22 Jul DubBox by Vochlea: Turn vocal recordings into production-ready loops Instrument
  30. 22 Jul Boz Digital Labs Automator Effect
  31. 22 Jul Native Instruments Super*Saw: Dense Sawtooth Sounds Without the Clutter Instrument