DAWs, plugins, and the software shaping modern production.
discoDSP Corona 7 is a free upgrade for Corona 6 owners, adding MPE, a step sequencer, Synth1 and JP-8000 import, and Super 7+ unison. Specs, price, and verdict.
Parish Audio Parametric Compressor is a $34.97 intro plugin that places up to 10 overlapping compressor bands like a parametric EQ. Specs and who it is for.
UJAM Virtual Drummer NEON is a $49 intro nu-disco drummer with five vintage kits, 690 phrases, and a Real/Glam slider. Specs, price, and who should buy it.
Arturia Pigments Play is a free synth with all six Pigments engines, 68 filters, and 100 presets. Full specs, pricing, and how it compares to Vital.
Twisted Electrons vMEGAfm brings its gritty MEGAfm hardware FM synth to your DAW: 12 voices, 4 operators, MPE. Full specs, price, and how it compares to FM8.
Audio Damage AD-202 is a $39 intro one-VCO grey-box synth with a 24 dB ladder, eight-voice poly, MPE, and no DRM. Specs, formats, and who should buy it.
Dawesome Abyss II is an $89 intro colour-engine synth with sample-to-colour palettes, 400+ presets, and a 90-day trial. Specs, comparisons, and who it is for.
Minimal Audio Lucid is a $79 intro granular FX plugin with scale-locked grains, timeline sync, and 350 presets. Specs, Portal comparison, and who it is for.
Pulsar Modular P252 MDN Diode is a $165 germanium diode-bridge compressor modeled on a 1968 Neve 2252 from Wessex Studios. Specs, controls, and who it is for.
Stability AI's Stable Audio plugin puts 3.0 generation on a Mac AU/VST3 instrument track. Early beta: six-minute takes, BPM sync, a rebuilt web mixer.
Suno Studio 2.0 adds MIDI, a wavetable synth, chat-built plugins, and unlimited 32-bit/48kHz stem export on Premier. A first look at Suno's browser DAW.
UAD EMT 140 plate and EMT 250 electronic reverb now run native — no Apollo required. Live prices, Spark inclusion, specs, and how they compare to FutureVerb.
