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Full Blotter pulls large grains from audio and processes it through a psychedelic machine of infinite ambient loveliness.
Ambient is more popular than ever but it can be hard to make a living at it. Six professional ambient artists give advice on how you can do it too.
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Serenity 2 Lite is full of relaxing pads and soundscapes, Samplur PROGATE chops up your audio, and MShift8 is an 8-band pitch shifter: Free Plugins!
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The Walrus Audio Slöer Stereo Ambient Reverb builds on the popular Slö lineup but adds two additional reverb algorithms, stereo width control and more
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The SOLAR 42 improves on the original with new drones and generators for a thrilling experience. Preorders are open and we have all the details.
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Welsh DJ Sasha made a massive impact on the dance music industry in the 1990s before taking his skills to the studio. We find out how!
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6 oscillators pour out of the DecadeBridge Bora handmade drone synthesizer with semi-modular cascading sync and internal pitch modulation.
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We’ve got three sampled instruments for you in this week's collection of free plug-ins: a spaced-out piano, a funky bass and a collection of dreamy pads.
We look at Brian Eno's limited edition LED turntable, his latest visual arts offering through the Paul Stolper Gallery in London, UK.
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Samples from Mars has captured a bunch of analog synth movements through tape feedback loops for experimental sounds in multiple software instrument formats.
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If you're not feeling depressed enough then you can inject some added creepiness and despair with Darklands Dystopian Soundscape synthesizer from Puremagnetik - it's what we need right now.
Need some new textures in your songs or projects? The obscure 1960s Windhowler is a comprehensive virtual instrument that's ripe for all sorts of sound design experiments.
"Ghostly VHS tones, softly degraded keys, hypnagogic sound beds and wobbly synth leads" packaged into a convenient rompler with LFO, filters and envelopes! What's not to like?
The best new sample packs: a magical acoustic guitar emulation, some rich ambient/sci-fi sounds, cool synthetic drums and a fully-featured pack of EDM loops. Let's dive in.
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They are calling the SOLAR 50 the "Big Ambient Machine" designed for creating atmospheric sounds and super polyphonic electro symphonies. Some photos and a video has popped up, what do we know so far?
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Puremagnetik has released Zerone, a granular effects processor that shoots your audio to pieces with its laser eyes. These particles are then time compressed or expanded to create ambient soundscapes.
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The new Ice Caves Ambient Reverb pedal is an Arctic-themed take on reverb pedals with a unique set of parameters for those that like to get more experimental with their 'verb. Frosty!
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If you want to do some seriously mean time-stretching with your audio - we are talking stretching a 3-minute song into a 10-hour ambient masterpiece, for example - you are going to love this one!
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Check out the video demo for some serious ambient action, achieved by bowing springs and tapping plates. The Microphonic Soundbox is gloriously weird and you don't have to be Trent Reznor to buy one...
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If you are a guitar geek that likes to tweak your effects via software, then this dinky box may well appeal to your inner knob tweaker. With iOS and Android integration, it'll keep you busy for hours.
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For those of us that love delay, the new Echosystem pedal from Empress Effects could be the ultimate delay-crafting tool.
Here's a unique offering for the world of pro audio from Croatia. The Feature 2S is a completely new design of microphone, and it sounds amazing!
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Dark Matter is chillier than the icicle hanging from an alien monster's beard who is about to jump out at you from behind a disturbingly shaped landscape dripping with the terrors of a thousand haunted worlds.
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Escape into a world of shimmery pads and ethereal atmospheres in Gothic Instruments' Dronar Guitar Soundscapes. Heavy on the pads, light on the rock.