John Walden’s Cubase Video Tutorials Regular SOS contributor and Cubase workshop columnist John Walden has just released a new Cubase video course that is now available on the Udemy platform.

WAVDSP Primary VxPrimary Vx is a real-time, low-latency AI vocal cleanup product line from WAVDSP Neural Labs. It detects and separates the human voice from background noise and stage bleed, helping speech and singing stay clear in demanding environments. Keep the voice. Push the noise away. Primary Vx is designed for vocal microphones surrounded by real world sound: loud instruments, reflections, ambience, and unwanted bleed that normally follows the voice into the mix. Voice-aware cleanup in three stages. 1. Vx Source Detection. Identifies the vocal source in real time so the engine follows the performance, not the bleed around it. 2. Source Separation. Wipes unwanted background instruments, ambience, and bleed away from the vocal path. 3. Feedback Protection Helps you push more gain before feedback, with lower risk of ringing from the PA system. Designed with a multi-stage processing chain while keeping internal latency under 4.7 ms. This makes it practical for Front of House (FOH) workflows and other live vocal applications where response time matters. Read More

IK Multimedia introduce ReSing Doubling Available as a paid add-on for all versions, ReSing Doubling has been designed to help users create wider lead vocals, thicker backing parts and larger ensemble-style vocal arrangements without having to record multiple takes.

FruityAlfred Software Track ManagementTrack Management is an offline audio workstation that turns your own track library into a production resource: database, analysis, stem separation, loop extraction, VST3 processing, BPM matching, mix discovery and export — in one continuous workflow. Import and analyze thousands of tracks locally (BPM, key, beats). The proprietary Loop Finder uses pure DSP — musical beat scoring, zero-crossing snap, bar quantization — to pull the best loops out of any track in your collection. Splice searches their library; Track Management searches yours. Split tracks into drums, bass, other and vocals with intelligent caching, then mix stems across tracks: drums from song A, vocals from song B — with per-stem 5-band EQ and VST3 inserts on every level (per-stem, master bus, single-track). Lock stems to a target BPM with high-quality time-stretching. Record your stem mix live, exactly as you hear it. The Mix Recommender finds compatible tracks by BPM, key, groove and energy. Offline-first: no subscription, no cloud. One-time purchase with lifetime updates. EN, DE, ES, FR, IT. Free unlimited trial. Works on any modern PC; NVIDIA GPU (CUDA) accelerates AI features. Read More

Two Notes Audio Engineering releases Genome Intro, a FREE amp and FX suite
In tandem with the release of Genome 2.0, Two Notes Audio Engineering has launched a free entry-level version, Genome Intro. Genome Intro is available in AU, VST3, and AAX formats for macOS and Windows. Even as a free offering, Genome Intro is a fairly comprehensive collection, including four amp models, fourteen pedals, five cabinets, and [...]
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Akai Pro’s MPC One & MPC Key 37 get G2 upgrade The MPC One G2 and MPC Key 37 G2 both come loaded with a new eight-core processor, 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage, and are powered by the company’s latest MPC operating system. 

Kobito ChordGenius is FREE for a limited time: crate digging for chords
Developer Kobito has made its ChordGenius free for a limited time. We’ve covered a few MIDI Chord generators recently; we’ve had the Bloomer emotional chord engine by The Freequency, UChord by Ultimate MIDI Plugins, and we can now add ChordGenius to the list. Additionally, if you want to add the right bassline to your chord [...]
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Bitwig Studio 6.1 enters beta testing Bitwig Studio 6.1 focuses on the built-in Sampler tool, which has been treated to a significant overhaul and now boasts a whole host of new capabilities. 

Dreeemwave Bassliner: Instant no-AI baselines and exclusive discount
We first covered Bassliner during its open beta stage in late 2024. It’s been a while since then; Bassliner is now a fully fledged commercial plugin, and I’ve been putting it to the test over the last couple of days. What is Bassliner? Bassliner (25% off using the promo code “BPB25”) is a MIDI bassline [...]
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Parish Audio MultiplierMultiplier turns a single vocal into multiple copies, resulting in a wider, fuller, more exciting performance by adding natural doubles, stacked backing vocals, and spacious movement without losing the clarity of the original take. Multiplier is built to make a single vocal feel bigger, wider, and more complete. Instead of leaving a lead vocal sitting alone in the center, Multiplier lets you surround it with natural doubles, subtle movement, and layered backing voices that help the performance feel more finished without needing to record every part again. At its core, Multiplier is designed around the sound of real vocal layering. Each added voice can have its own timing, pitch, pan position, distance, level, and tone, so the result feels less like a simple chorus effect and more like multiple performances working together. You can keep the effect tight and believable for a natural double, spread voices wide for a polished pop vocal sound, or build larger stacks that add depth and energy behind the lead. The global controls let you shape the overall feel quickly. Spread controls how wide the voices reach across the stereo field, Depth changes how much space the voices occupy, Timing adjusts the separation between the layers, and Humanize adds the small timing and pitch variations that keep the effect from sounding static. The Mix control makes it easy to blend the added voices into the track, whether you want a barely noticeable lift or a much more obvious vocal stack. Multiplier also gives you control over the main voice and each additional copy when you want to fine-tune the arrangement. You can move voices left or right, push them closer or farther away, add small delays, shift pitch by cents or musical notes, filter the top and bottom end, adjust level, and mute or solo parts while building the sound. This makes it easy to create anything from a clean lead vocal double to a wide backing vocal section, a crowd-like stack, or a spacious vocal wash. The result is a vocal tool that helps tracks feel larger, more polished, and more emotionally engaging. Whether you are trying to thicken a lead, widen a hook, create backing layers, add depth to a chorus, or make a vocal sit bigger in the mix, Multiplier gives you a direct way to turn one performance into something that feels fuller, wider, and more alive. Read More

VSL update Vienna Ensemble Pro 8 VSL's latest update for VEP8 and VEP8V makes it possible to use AI assistants to help build templates, as well as introducing a number of other new features and improvements. 

Calloga releases Unshuffle FREE open-source sample library organizer
Calloga has released Unshuffle, a free open-source sample library organizer for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Unshuffle is designed for producers with messy sample folders, which is probably most of us at some point. My main samples are nicely sorted into folders, but I have an insane amount of other samples scattered across hard drives, mostly [...]
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CodWaves launches WaveBalance auto gain staging plugin
CodWaves has released WaveBalance, an auto gain staging plugin for macOS and Windows. WaveBalance is designed to solve one of the most common mixing problems: inconsistent track levels before the rest of the processing chain. You place WaveBalance early in the chain, usually as the first plugin, and it adjusts the incoming level so compressors, [...]
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Two notes unveil Genome 2.0 Two notes Audio Engineering have just announced the launch of Genome 2.0, a significant update that brings a wealth of new features to their all-in-one amp, cabinet and effects emulation software suite. 

Clack.DIGITAL releases FREE Amp Squeezer overdrive plugin
Clack.DIGITAL has released Amp Squeezer, a free frequency-shaped overdrive plugin for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Amp Squeezer was originally developed for the Darkglass Anagram pedalboard and released through the Anagram Marketplace. It is now available as a regular plugin, and you can download it directly from the Clack.DIGITAL website without creating an account, entering an [...]
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