All items tagged with plugins (189)
JUCE 8 Adds Important New Features and Enhancements for Audio Application and Plugin Development
June 13, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

JUCE 8 Adds Important New Features and Enhancements for Audio Application and Plugin Development

As promised, JUCE 8 is now available and represents a significant advancement in audio application and plug-in development. This release showcases highly anticipated updates, including substantial low-level improvements to text rendering, lightning-fast Direct2D rendering on Windows, and the introduction of a new animation framework. In addition to bolstering traditional UI capabilities, JUCE pioneers a new era in audio software interfaces by unlocking the potential of WebViews, offering developers a modern foundation for next-generation applications.
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Eventide Faithfully Recreates Iconic Sound of Legendary H3000 Ultra-Harmonizer as Plug-In
May 3, 2024 by Joao Martins

Eventide Faithfully Recreates Iconic Sound of Legendary H3000 Ultra-Harmonizer as Plug-In

Eventide announced the second generation of its universally acclaimed H3000 plug-ins, delivering a 1:1 recreation in digital form of its legendary H3000 Harmonizer. As one of the most famous hardware effects processors in history, the H3000 has set the gold standard in commercial studios around the world since its original launch in 1988. ​The new H3000 Factory Mk II and H3000 Band Delay Mk II plug-ins deliver the same timeless sound in an inspiring, flexible design for every DAW.
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Softube Console 1 Expands Control Features and Adds New Preamps
April 9, 2024 by Joao Martins

Softube Console 1 Expands Control Features and Adds New Preamps

Softube continues to expand its interesting concept of creating hardware expansions for music and audio production software and now announced new control capabilities for FabFilter and UADx plug-ins directly on its Console 1 Mixing System. This means loading and controlling these popular, high-quality plugins with pre-mapped controls. This free update also adds new Core Modern Preamp and Core Vintage Preamps.
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Waves Audio Makes Remote Audio Collaboration Simple with Waves Stream
March 27, 2024 by Joao Martins

Waves Audio Makes Remote Audio Collaboration Simple with Waves Stream

Complementing its signal processing technologies and plugins, Waves Audio has launched Waves Stream, a remote audio collaboration service that allows music and audio creators to share audio directly from their DAW with their co-creators or clients, in real time. Based on a simple DAW plugin with Send and Receive modes, Waves Stream is a simple solution for one-to-one collaboration, easy to configure and use without being restricted in terms of audio quality.
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Acoustica Releases Mixcraft 10.5 with AI-Powered Stem Separation
March 22, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

Acoustica Releases Mixcraft 10.5 with AI-Powered Stem Separation

Acoustica has released Mixcraft 10.5, an update to its Windows audio workstation software for music creators. The latest version features an AI-powered stem separation option and productivity enhancements. The DAW gained valuable Project Templates, expanded MIDI controller support, improved the way the Plugin Manager displays and manages native and third-party instruments and effects, and expanded the integrated Mixcraft Store tab, all while maintaining affordability and ease of use.
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NUGEN Audio Announces Updated Loudness Plugin VisLM 3
March 18, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

NUGEN Audio Announces Updated Loudness Plugin VisLM 3

NUGEN Audio intends to expand its loudness metering efforts with significant innovations. The company will preview VisLM 3, the forthcoming version of its loudness metering plug-in, at the 2024 NAB Show (Booth SU2051). VisLM has long been the go-to solution for loudness metering and its new features will further benefit loudness workflows for studios, content producers and broadcasters.
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New MCenter Plugin Unlocks Full Stereo Signal Potential
February 13, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

New MCenter Plugin Unlocks Full Stereo Signal Potential

MeldaProduction, a music production and audio processing software company from the Czech Republic, announced a plugin called MCenter, which is able to find true mid-side balance or do a full stage manipulation of the stereo signal while detecting the elusive ‘phantom center’ by employing a complex spectral algorithm. This powerful plugin enables effective control over stereo qualities, going beyond traditional mid-side processing by offering advanced frequency analysis.
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New JUCE 8 Audio Application Framework Announced
January 26, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

New JUCE 8 Audio Application Framework Announced

JUCE announced the key features of its upcoming JUCE 8 Audio Application Framework, described as "a leap forward in audio application and plug-in development." This release will introduce long-anticipated features, including the ability to design and deploy GUIs with embedded web views, a faster Direct2D-based renderer, a new animation framework, enhanced Unicode support, and more.
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Native Instruments Releases iZotope AI Voice Enhancement Assistant
January 18, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

Native Instruments Releases iZotope AI Voice Enhancement Assistant

Native Instruments announced iZotope VEA, a new AI-powered voice enhancement plugin for Mac and Windows. This is a landmark product for the newly combined company, where iZotope's cutting-edge audio processing technology is boosted with an artificial intelligence-based approach that delivers results that are simply not possible or very difficult to achieve with traditional tools. Voice Enhancement Assistant, or VEA, delivers a more powerful, polished, and professional vocal sound for podcasters and content creators.
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DiGiCo and Fourier Audio Transform Live Sound with Dante-Connected Hardware Engine for VST3 Plugins
October 27, 2023 by Joao Martins

DiGiCo and Fourier Audio Transform Live Sound with Dante-Connected Hardware Engine for VST3 Plugins

Building upon the earlier announcement of industry pioneer DiGiCo acquiring Fourier Audio, during the AES convention in New York, the British startup finally revealed the transform.engine, previously known as codename "Project Core." transform.engine runs VST3 plugins directly, giving access on DiGiCo consoles to any studio-grade processing on a lowest-latency robust platform, specifically designed for the complexities of live productions.
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