DAWs, plugins, and the software shaping modern production.
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.
Audio Damage Tessera turns any input into tuned chords using 12 resonator voices, 11 physical models and five motion engines. A look at the specs and price.
Pulsar Modular's Q Sahara lands on iPad as a $19.99 AUv3 compressor with no threshold knob, adaptive timing and a sidechain filter. A first look at the port.
Suno Vinyl presses tracks from your Suno library onto a real 12-inch record for about $45. Here's what's confirmed, what isn't, and how rivals compare.
Steinberg marks 30 years of VST with five free classic plug-ins, a free HALion 7.5 update with MPE, HALion Sonic Play for iOS, and up to 60% off to August 24.
Baby Audio SubCulture is a pitch-tracking bass enhancer that generates in-tune subharmonics. Three engines, 177 presets, and $129. Full review inside.
