The company was founded 10 years ago, and Melodyne has been with us 10 years, so yeah, that’s a reason to celebrate. During this time, Melodyne has become one of the most valuable tools out there. History behind Celemony & Melodyne In 1997, Peter Neubäcker was working on a research experiment with sound and began developing the idea behind Melodyne. This experiment later turned into the...

Should Woulda Coulda is a new software company and has two partners – Gregory Wieber, a visual artist and code expert, and music producer/engineer Hugo Nicolson who has worked with Radiohead, Primal Scream, and on movie soundtracks such as the Ocean’s 11 trilogy with DJ Composer David Holmes. Having worked in the music business for 25 years, Hugo was frustrated by the fact that he still...

iZotope have just launched a new product. It’s called Nectar, and it’s supposed to be your 1st stop for vocal-processing. What Exactly Is Nectar? Nectar is a set of 11 vocal effects combined in one plug-in that’s designed to give you immediate results. It’s not just your AutoTune. It’s more than that… Nectar offers you multiple choices to process your vocals. Available...

One Red Dog have announced the release of Molten – “The Drum Machine Reinvented” as they say. Molten is a powerful and intuitive tool for creating percussive sounds and rhythm sequences built on a versatile synthesizer that allows you to play and process your own sound samples. The kits can be mangled, filtered and crushed using the multi-touch interface. Using a revolutionary...

Competition again! This one is big! Well, not that the other ones are not. I’m just saying this one is a little bit different. You need to mix a track using Waves JJP plugins. I’m not going to try and explain it to you guys, because I don’t think I’ll do a good job. Instead, I’ll just show you what the Waves guys are saying: “This is how it works: You send us...

Fancy spending the New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas? Well, this is your chance. Beatport is offering you and one lucky friend an all-access trip to see Eric Morillo play. What You Need To Do Become a Beatport Mix member by December 10th, 2010 and you’ll be automatically entered to win a trip for 2 to Las Vegas. One lucky winner along with their guest will be flown to Las Vegas and stay at...

Acustica Audio have recently released a stripped-down version of their Nebula plugin for Mac. Basically, Nebula3 Free is a fully-functional limited version of Nebula3 Pro. What is Nebula? “Nebula is a VST effect plug-in that is able to emulate and replicate several types of expensive audio equipment, eliminating the need for costly and bulky hardware. Nebula uses libraries which are created...

Sugar-Bytes, creators of  Effectrix & Consequence (amongst others) are having a huge Christmas Sale. Their offer is available for all their products (Consequence, Guitarist, Effectrix, Thesys, Unique, Vogue, WOW, Robotronic), as well as for their bundled software, “Sugar Bundle”. “This year we celebrate the most insane Christmas deal we ever had! All prices went down, so you...

Techno lengend Plasitkman aka Richie Hawtin, Burn Studios & ResidentAdvisor offer you the chance to earn your spot in the Plastikman archives. One lucky producer has the chance to get their work onto the digital release of Arkives, by remixing “Ask Yourself.” And, as if that weren’t enough, you’ll also win a 2,500 euro voucher for Avid.com’s web shop and a pro SoundCloud...

Cableguys have just released the public beta for their new commercial version of Curve. For those of you who don’t know what Curve is, here’s the simple explanation: Software synthesizer based on editable waveforms and preset sharing. Sounds cool, right? You have to know this one thing… Curve is a community-oriented synthesizer. What does that mean? Well, it means Curve is all about...