DSP Software Reviews & Features

Antares Audio Technologies Announces Harmony Engine 

Antares Audio Technologies has announced Harmony Engine, a real-time vocal harmony-generating plug-in....

VirSyn Releases Poseidon 1.3 

VirSyn has released Poseidon 1.3, which offers several new features and bugfixes. ...

Blue Cat Audio Updates Parametr'EQ Series 

Blue Cat Audio has updated the Parametr'EQ series to v. 3.1, which provides several bug fixes and improvements....

Camel Audio Releases Kore Presets 

Camel Audio now offers new presets for Native Instruments Kore, as well as Kore presets for the Biolabs Absynth Sounds collection....

PreSonus Announces Three Free Plug-ins Rebate 

From now through June 30, 2007, purchase a FirePod, FireBox, or Inspire 1394 recording system and receive Drumagog LE, Lounge Lizard Session, and Ultra Analog Session—for free!...

Digidesign Ships Reel Tape Suite 

Digidesign is shipping Reel Tape Suite, a set of analog tape emulation plug-ins that recreate the vintage sound of analog tape recordings and tape effects in digital recordings or live audio....

ROGER NICHOLS DIGITAL Pro Bundle (Mac/Win) 

By Mike Levine

Electronic Musician's review of the Roger Nichols Digital Pro Bundle, which contains Uniquel-izer, Frequal-izer, Finis, and Dynam-izer....

IK Multimedia's Musikmesse News 

A slew of new products are being announced this week at Musikmesse 2007 in Frankfurt, Germany. Here's a peek at what IK Multimedia has announced at the show....

TC-Helicon Ships Harmony4 Plug-in for Pro Tools | HD 

According to the manufacturer, Harmony4 can be used to generate one- to four-part harmonies, fatten existing harmony tracks, and create vocal special effects....

IK MULTIMEDIA Classik Studio Reverb 1.1 (Mac/Win) 

By Larry the O

IK Multimedia's latest offering, Classik Studio Reverb (CSR), adds reverb plug-ins to the company's sampling, synthesis, and mastering repertoire. Available...

McDSP Project Studio (Mac/Win) 

By Mike Levine

If you ask professionals who use Digidesign Pro Tools about their favorite effects plug-ins, chances are good that the name McDSP will be frequently mentioned....

IK MULTIMEDIA Ampeg SVX 1.0 

By Geary Yelton

Amp-modeling plug-ins have been available to electric guitarists for years. Some include a few presets for bass guitar, but software designed specifically...

Adventures in Vocal Processing 

By Geary Yelton

For as long as people have been singing, many have hoped for some miracle that would make them sound like better singers than they really were. Powerful...

IK MULTIMEDIA AmpliTube 2.01 (Mac/Win) 

By Orren Merton

IK Multimedia AmpliTube received much praise as one of the first guitar-amplifier and -effects plug-ins. But it began showing its age as new guitarcentric...

LINE 6 TonePort UX2 (Mac/Win) 

By Orren Merton

Several years after its release of GuitarPort, Line 6 has released its next generation of USB guitar processors the TonePorts. Currently offered in two...

NATIVE INSTRUMENTS Guitar Rig 2.0.1 (Mac/Win) 

By Mike Levine

When Guitar Rig 1.0 was released last year, it garnered acclaim not only because it offered a large model collection and flexible routing structure, but...

ANTARES Avox 1.0.2 (Mac/Win) 

By Eli Crews

The main goal when mixing is to make a vocal sit properly in the music so it doesn't sound overprocessed. That requires a person to have years of experience...

PSP MasterComp 

By David Weiss

PSP MasterComp ($249) for Windows from PSP is a VST, DirectX, and RTAS compatible compressor plug-in. The stereo-mono MasterComp has a 64-bit floating-point...

WAVE ARTS TrackPlug 5 

By Mike Levine

The first thing you notice when you open TrackPlug 5 ($199), the latest version of Wave Arts' channel strip plug-in, is its snazzy new user interface....

UNIVERSAL AUDIO Plate 140 

By Eli Crews

As the name suggests, the Universal Audio Plate 140 reverb plug-in ($149), designed for use with the UAD-1 accelerator card, is modeled after the German-made...