DAWs, plugins, and the software shaping modern production.
Suno Bridge is a standalone Mac app that generates instrument and vocal parts from prompts and drops them into Ableton Live, matched to your session.
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UVI Twin 88 Keys pairs a CFX concert grand and a vintage electric piano on one keyboard, with blending, deep editing, and 121 presets. Specs and price.
IK Multimedia ReSing Choir turns one sung vocal into an editable choir of up to five AI singers with chord-aware harmonies. $149.99 intro until Dec 31.
Currents & Nostalgia is Unusable Engineering's six-voice virtual-analog synth with two slot sequencers, per-voice drift, and no modulation matrix, for €89.
VOCALOID7 adds second-gen VOCALOID:AI, ATTACK and VOICE TYPE controls, Cubase Key Editor input and the asa voice. $129, or a $39 upgrade until 20 December.
Ableton Live 13 adds a Step Sequencer, ARA 2, Drum Synth, Capture Automation and 32-Macro Racks. Editions, prices, the free-upgrade offer and who should buy now.
Audio Damage Sandbender is a four-operator FM synth that makes FM easy to program, with drag-and-drop mod, a genetic preset generator and iOS support. Full review and how it compares to FM8.
Eventide Anthology '27 bundles 38 plug-ins, adding Temperance Pro, DeBoom, Sheen Machine and immersive Blackhole and MicroPitch. $649 from $1,299 until January 3.
Schmidt Vi recreates the Schmidt Eightvoice analog polysynth in software with UJAM: four oscillators, five filters, 16 LFOs, MPE and a randomizer for €179.
AudioKit Pro Super J8 is a Jupiter-8-inspired virtual analog synth that now runs natively on Mac as well as iPhone and iPad. Full review: engine, specs, pricing and how it compares to Arturia Jup-8 V.
Dubspot SM-1 is a Moog Grandmother and Matriarch emulation, out now for iPad, iPhone and Mac: mono or paraphonic, Beads FX, full patch recall, from $9.99.
