Virtual Studio Technology allows you to incorporate a variety of effects and instruments into your recording projects. VST effects and instruments are called plugins, and are implemented within a ...

Let’s face it - there are more plugins out there than most producers have time to sort through. For every brilliant, CPU-friendly synth that adds color to your mix, there are ten others that sound ...

Ableton Live users can fire up the Multiband Compressor’s OTT preset, but all DAW owners can use this freeware downwards/upwards compressor - a modern way to flatten and raise midrange and high end.

Fully functional support for the VST plugin standard is one of the most important remaining problems for the Linux audio world. VST plugins are ubiquitous in the Win/Mac audio worlds, they are ...

SM Pro Audio has started shipping its V-Machine. This is the first in a range of standalone VST plug-in boxes that was launched at the 2008 Musikmesse. Like Muse's Receptor, the V-Machine can be ...

A talkbox modifies the output of an electronic instrument using input from the musician's mouth. Artists like Peter Frampton and Daft Punk have popularized this effect, which is similar to that of a ...