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Production ExpertStudios & prosSurround Client Reviews Without the Room: Source-Nexus 2026 Source Elements added a real-time surround downmixer to Source-Nexus Review in Source-Nexus Suite 1.6, which we covered as news in July .

Production ExpertStudios & prosQuiet Art WaveRider v5 Adds Dialog Mode And VST/AU Support #offer ends 30/11/26 Quiet Art has today announced WaveRider v5, a full overhaul of its long-running dialogue levelling plugin, alongside Dialog Mode, a neural speech detection feature that also…

Production ExpertStudios & prosStudio Subscription Cost Tracker for Audio Pros - Find Out How Much You Are Spending Subscriptions have become a normal part of everyday life, including in audio. However, if we're not careful, they can add up quickly, and we may not even know how much we're spending.

Production ExpertStudios & prosAudient iD MKIII First Look 2026: RoomTune and Smart Gain iD - The Story So Far If there is one piece of studio gear that personifies the democratisation of studio-grade sounds, it must be the humble desktop USB audio interface .

Production ExpertStudios & prosWaves Black Friday Free Plugin 2026 - Sign-Up Now Open #offer ends 30/11/26 It’s November, and with Black Friday almost upon us, we can be sure of one thing: there’s a FREE Waves plugin on the way!

Production ExpertStudios & prosWhy Cloning Pro Tools Is Not a Protest: Our Verdict There has been a lot of noise in recent weeks about so-called open-source versions of the software our industry runs on, including tools from Adobe and Avid.

Production ExpertStudios & prosKaizen Audio Axis Upmixer And Vortex Downmixer First Look Kaizen Audio offer a range of plugins and tools for audio post. Among them are AXIS Upmixer and Vortex Downmixer.

Production ExpertStudios & prosPulsar Audio Releases DigiTape, A Free Early Digital Tape Plugin Pulsar Audio has today announced DigiTape, a free plugin built around two early digital tape algorithms from the 2000s.

Production ExpertStudios & prosHow To Name Mix Versions So Nobody Plays The Wrong One We all know the old joke about adding the word “final” to any deliverable only ensures there will be more changes. Until you deliver the “mix Final Final v4”.

Production ExpertStudios & prosToontrack Releases Neon Void EKX For EZkeys 2 Toontrack has today announced the Neon Void EKX, a new expansion for EZkeys 2 built around dark synths, heavily processed textures and cinematic effects.

Production ExpertStudios & prosSoundly Brings Smarter Sound Design to Pro Tools What’s always a little surprising is how little imagination goes into much of the marketing for audio professionals.

Production ExpertStudios & prosSoundbar Reality Check: How Your Immersive Mix Sounds At Home If you’re mixing in Dolby Atmos, your work is far more likely to be heard on a living-room soundbar than on anything resembling a calibrated 7.1.4 studio.

Production ExpertStudios & prosClipMap Review: Is This The Multi-Session Pro Tools Fix? #offer ends 18/11/26 ClipMap from Sparks Audio aims to solve the issue of Pro Tools allowing only one session to be open at a time.

Production ExpertStudios & prosStemStation Prints Pro Tools Stems Unattended And Restarts Pro Tools If It Crashes Nashville mix engineer Dafydd Thomas launched StemStation today, a macOS app that prints stems and stereo mixes from a batch of Pro Tools sessions without anyone at the desk.

Production ExpertStudios & prosSteinberg Ends Full Support For Nuendo 13 And SpectraLayers 11 In January 2027 Steinberg has today announced that it will end full technical support for Nuendo 13 and SpectraLayers 11 on 1 January 2027.

Production ExpertStudios & prosManley ecliptic: First Manley EQ Plugin May Become Hardware Four months after buying back Brainworx and Plugin Alliance, Dirk Ulrich has published the third in a series of open letters to users. The first two dealt with reassurance.

Production ExpertStudios & prosI Vibe Coded Something, But I'd Never Sell It Photo by hitesh0141 on Pixabay It seems everyone is vibe coding right now, and I'm no exception. For the last fourteen days, I've been down a rabbit hole, exploring what an AI agent can do when you…

Production ExpertStudios & prosSonuscore's Free Kontakt Instruments Are Well Worth Installing Most free sample libraries come with a catch, usually a licence that expires after a fortnight, which makes them nothing more than a glorified demo.

Production ExpertStudios & prosApogee Plugins Move To Plugin Alliance, Drop iLok And Gain Resizable Interfaces Apogee has announced in October 2026 that its plugins have moved to Plugin Alliance, which now sells and develops the full range, including the Bob Clearmountain series and Apogee’s Pultec…

Production ExpertStudios & prosVienna Performer Renders MIDI With Real Players For €9.99 A Month Vienna Symphonic Library has announced Vienna Performer, a plugin that takes a composer's MIDI and renders it as a performance.
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