Designed to support independent artists, producers, and collaborators at every stage of the music-making journey, SOS FOR ARTISTS is a new subscription service from Sound On Sound that brings together all the tools needed to take your music from idea to release.

Said to be more powerful, versatile and intuitive than ever, the new version comes packed with new features designed for a wide range of applications including music, post-production, restoration, sound design, mastering and audio forensics.

In response to user requests, CB Electronics will soon be releasing 32- and 64-channel versions of their relay-based digitally controlled patchbay.

Building on the success of its predecessor, Percussive Layers 2 features 748 one-shot samples and 316 presets that comprise transients, snare layers, weighty subs, foley, crackles, reversed effects, noise, left-field sound design elements and much more.

Apogee say that their latest Clearmountain-series plug-in “brings the harmonics, warmth and unparalleled sonic character of Bob’s personal console into the hands of producers, engineers, and musicians worldwide.”

Tactile combines a ‘spectral freezing’ technique with granular synthesis, and features an X-Y interface that allows users to blend between layers of audio and create continually evolving soundscapes. 

Mastering.com have announced the availability of a new online course designed to cover the fundamentals of mastering in just seven days.

NOIZ One Vox combines compression, de-essing, delay and reverb with some additional creative effects in an effort to provide users with an all-in-one vocal-processing solution. 

The latest version of Qu-Bit's Bloom sequencer comes kitted out with a whole host of new features including per-step clock-sync’d ratchets, new random variation functions, additional channel outputs and more.