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Miss the sounds of GWAR, well the future is gnar! Check out this new machine dubbed the “cyborg”. Audio Cyborg comes with droning, swirling and drizzling noises like the kinds you’d only imagine to hear in movie soundtracks. The library’s main focus is experimentation with it’s many sound loops. The sound loops actually sound very good and very menacing.

Big Fish Audio Cyborg Review – Rise of the Machines

The Swedish company Elektron has just announced new shipments of Analog Heat coming in. The Analog heat is more than an audio enhancer, it’s an audio destroyer. It can take any sound you give it and mix, mold and twist it into whatever sound you fancy. The circuit comes with eight different distortion modes to allow for sounds on either end of the spectrum.

Elektron Begin Shipping Analog Heat – Audio Enhancer/Destroyer

Parallel compression has to do with when you split an audio signal, the two copies that are made. One of these is highly compressed and the other is not. The main job of the two copies is making sure the audio never gets to loud or produces any radically sounding output. You’ll be able to maintain the thick, full sound of one channel while maintaining the original unedited one.

How to Use Parallel Compression in Pro Tools

Musictech has collected a list of the best freeware effects available at the end of 2016. These are – as the name implies – effect plugins for your computer-based home recording software. “Effects” are tools that allow you to do any number of things to your audio, such as add reverb or distortion; and sometimes they refer to mixing/editing tools like EQ and compression.
In this list is a reverb, a distortion (fuzz) pedal effect, a parametric EQ, a vinyl record simulator, a chorus, and a compressor.
Freeware 2017: The Best Freeware Effects (Part 1)

Getting a music mix to sound great on multiple speakers can be a challenge. Usually you have to physically test a mix in multiple environments (your car, iPod, big CD player, etc. The Mixchecker by Audified makes this process easier. Now with the push of a button, you can hear what a mix will sound like in multiple situations.
Audified MixChecker Review