If you have a Focusrite audio interface ranging from the 2nd gen Scarlett 6i6 and up, including the Clarett and Red interfaces, you may be interested to know that Focusrite has released a new app for the iPad and iPhone that lets you control your audio interface wirelessly. The Focusrite iOS Control app is free […]
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Blue Cat Destructor Amp Sim and Distortion Plugin Released (Videos)
Blue Cat Audio just released a new distortion and amp sim plugin that they’ve been working on for the past five years called Blue Cat Destructor. It’s designed to simulate all kinds of distortion, and it can be used as an amp sim for guitars and bass to create everything from clean to high gain […]
How to Setup Spider V Amps to Record in Cubase and Other DAWs
The new lineup of Line 6 Spider V amps have the unique capability of doubling as a USB audio interface to enable recording the amp directly in a DAW. The Spider V amps come with Cubase LE 8, a starter DAW that has a surprising number of features and tools for being a free download. […]
Proof That All DAWs Sound the Same (Video)
No matter what music forum you go to or who you encounter in various music-related fields there’s always some jackass claiming that their DAW sounds better than your DAW. The DAW myth has evolved into an illogical beast that thinks audio produced by one DAW sounds different than audio produced by a different DAW, even […]
Sound Radix SurferEQ 2 Boogie – New Free Focusrite Plugin
If you own a Focusrite product you can download the SurferEQ 2 Boogie plugin from Sound Radix for free through the month of October. A few months back Focusrite started a new thing called the Focusrite Plug-in Collective where they team up with plugin developers to offer free plugins and special promotions for Focusrite customers. […]
Soundtoys Sie-Q Equalizer Free for Limited Time (Video)
The folks at Soundtoys have released a new EQ plugin called Sie-Q and they are giving it away for free for the next couple of weeks for anyone who wants to put up with authorizing it through iLok. After the free release period is over the Sie-Q plugin will sell for $129, so act now […]
10 Top Music Making Apps for iPad – iOS DAWs List
Steinberg updated their music making iPad app, Cubasis, this past week to version 2.0. It has a surprising number of features for being a DAW designed on a mobile operating system. That got me thinking about how the iPad has become a fully functional music producing tool over the past few years, while Android still […]
What’s With All the Generic Heavy Metal and Rock on Spotify?
I started to listen to Spotify a few months ago (yeah, I’m late to that party) and it turns out they have a lot of rock and heavy metal music that I’ve never heard on Pandora, which is what I usually listen to while working. The problem, however, is that most of the heavy music […]