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Alex Holmes

United Kingdom

Music Producer and Contributor at MusicTech

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  • Jan 17, 2025 | musictech.com | Alex Holmes

    £80 / £30 upgrade from Kick 2, sonicacademy.comSonic Academy’s Kick 2 has been ruling the land of kick drum synth plugins since its release in 2016. Precision pitch and envelope editing combined with sample layering make it the go-to for fine-tuning the perfect kick sound. READ MORE: Five new plugins, effects and VST instruments you need to know about this weekNow, the long-awaited update — Kick 3 — allows even more control, extra effects and a snazzy new AI import feature.

  • Nov 13, 2024 | musictech.com | Alex Holmes

    Reverb is often pivotal in crafting a professional and three-dimensional sounding mix. From the original spring, plate and chamber reverb techniques to hardware algorithms and captured impulse responses, there are many different techniques to add depth to your audio. READ MORE: The best rotary mixers to buyAs a general rule, most plugins either fall into the algorithmic or convolution categories.

  • Oct 25, 2024 | musictech.com | Alex Holmes

    £60, modeaudio.comSince 2013, ModeAudio has released a large number of sample and loop packs in various styles. The UK brand specialised in creating rich and evocative ambient samples, and the team has used this knowledge to create its first plugin – a hybrid convolution reverb and delay effect. With a broad collection of curated impulse responses and presets, Airspace transforms even your simplest audio sources into mesmerising, deep and enveloping pads and textures.

  • Aug 21, 2024 | musictech.com | Alex Holmes

    $199 (excluding tax), dreamtonics.comAvailable in a bundle with Synthesizer V StudioIt’s getting tough to tell whether an online voice is real or fake, isn’t it? Our era of vocal deepfakes and generative AI vocals is eerie and precarious — but that hasn’t stopped some developers from trying to improve the prowess of music producers with new AI vocal tools.

  • Jul 29, 2024 | musictech.com | Alex Holmes

    $129 ($79 introductory price), babyaud.ioBaby Audio started out in 2019 with a string of well-received effects plugins and turned its attention to synth releases in 2023, with tremendous success. Humanoid combines the best of both worlds, letting you transform voices into synthesised, robot-like tones, and giving you pitch manipulation and hard-tuning effects.

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