Author: Bryan Lake
Bryan Lake
Bryan Lake is a sound designer and a musician. He publishes sound design tutorials and sound libraries on his website Sound Author.
Orange Music Electronic Company has just released its new Crest Edition Wireless Headphones, the company’s next foray into the wearables market, this time with…
Today we are taking a closer look at Obsession, the long-awaited Oberheim OB-Xa synthesizer emulation in the form of a VST plugin developed by…
We are reviewing Unify, a powerful and flexible VST host plugin developed by PluginGuru. Unify is on sale for $59 until March 9th and…
I rarely spend time with drum machines since I usually synthesize my own drums and percussion, but for a good long while, I’ve been…
I know what you’re thinking: “Do I really need another reverb plugin right now?” Yes, it’s true, we all have at least half a…
Metropolis by Sonic Underworld is a sound bank containing 150 presets for the Repro-5 virtual synthesizer by U-He.
There are two synths everyone should have in their recording studio: The Minimoog and the Prophet 5. Fortunately, there are affordable software emulations, such…
Okay, so it’s been several months since Ableton Live 10 was first announced earlier this year, and I’m just now reviewing it because it…
I normally don’t review preset libraries since I pretty much invest the majority of my time making my own, but on occasion, something really…
Every so often, something wonderfully original emerges out of a market oversaturated with virtual analog instruments and effects. It doesn’t happen very often, but…
There are many volume modulator effect plugins available on the VST market, but they often produce undesirable results. Sudden DC offsets (amplitude displacements that…
When U-He first unleashed their analog modeled software emulation of the coveted Sequential Circuits Pro One monophonic synthesizer, analog purist everywhere collectively lost their…
Without question, Dmitry Sches is one of the most brilliant developers on the planet, so when he drops a new plugin… well, it’s kind…
You may have noticed that I’ve been having a torrid love affair with Audiority plugins lately. Developer and founder of Audiority Luca Capozzi has…
Since 1968, Orange Music Electronic Company has earned the respect of guitarists everywhere, manufacturing quality guitar amplifiers for almost fifty years. Orange is now…
Deleight, another awesome plugin from Italian developer Audiority, has exploded onto the scene, chiefly inspired by the Korg DL8000r rackmount module released in 1997…
VST chorus effect plugins are easy to come by. There are even free chorus effects, several of which are expertly cataloged here on Bedroom…
When U-He dropped a public beta version of its streamlined, workflow-efficient subtractive synth Hive back in 2014, the excitement for a completely new plugin…
In my pursuit of an “affordable” modulation pedal, I couldn’t help but take notice of the Mod Core manufactured by NUX. Of course, it…
Resonator effects are my absolute favorite sound design tools. Unfortunately, the most useful resonator effects are restricted to host applications and programming environments you…
For decades, audio mastering engineers have relied on harmonic analysis and denoising algorithms, among other highly sophisticated signal processing techniques, in order to separate…
Upon reviewing GrainSpace, Audiority’s new granular processor, I bumped into yet another effect plugin developed by Audiority not long ago.
There are two basic methods of “granular synthesis”. First, there are granular samplers that process pre-recorded audio, then there are granular effects that process…
When Bazille was officially released almost three years ago (not including the alpha version released several years earlier), my gut reaction was to conjure…