“THE ENHANCED VERSION OF THE REVERED GLUE COMPRESSOR GETS THE PLUGIN TREATMENT IT SO LONG DESERVED”

 Madrid, Spain: Heritage Audio® is proud to announce the availability of the HA-609A Dual Mono/Stereo Compressor/Limiter plugin in native form.

The HA-609A Elite Series was never intended as a simple recreation. It was designed as an evolution — preserving the character of a legendary compressor while expanding its capabilities for today’s production environments.

An entirely discrete Class A topology, three Carnhill St Ives transformers per channel, and the addition of a fast attack mode for both the compressor and limiter are just a few of the enhancements that helped elevate the HA-609A into a modern classic.

The HA-609A plugin has been developed using current-generation component-level modelling, allowing every stage of the signal path, from gain reduction behavior to harmonic response, to be captured with exceptional accuracy.

We are really proud to be able to finally capture the weight, punch, and musical response that made this classic iconic with a level of accuracy that simply wasn’t possible years ago.

DIODE BRIDGE COMPRESSION: THE WEIGHT BEHIND THE MIX

At its core, the HA-609A plugin is about one thing: the sound of authority, cohesion, and confidence that has shaped countless records, now realized with modern modelling accuracy and workflow-ready features. Not a throwback, not a compromise but a refined evolution that delivers legendary glue, punch, and musical control exactly where today’s engineers need it. When the mix needs to feel finished, the HA-609A plugin delivers the weight that holds it all together.

THE HERITAGE AUDIO WAY

Our goal is to create helpful tools to channel creativity and put the focus back on the “music” in music production. That is why we want to reach as many users as possible with a comprehensive and fair pricing scheme:

Therefore, all HA-609A Elite Series and i73® PRO hardware owners will get the HA-609A Dual Mono Compressor Limiter plugin for free here:

https://heritageaudio.com/ha-609a-owners-form/

As for the rest, a very affordable price of $99 / 99€ and a 14-Day demo trial:

https://users.heritageaudio.com/product/ha-609a/

For more in-depth information, please visit the dedicated Heritage Audio HA-609A Dual Mono Compressor Limiter webpage here:

https://users.heritageaudio.com/product/ha-609a/

A COMPREHENSIVE LOYALTY PROGRAM ON ALL HERITAGE AUDIO PLUGINS

And finally, introducing Heritage Audio’s Plugin Loyalty Program. Any customer will get a 25% off their second HA plugin, 35% off the third HA plugin and 50% onwards, forever. Just use the coupon “loyaltyprogram” every time you buy one of Heritage Audio plugins though users.heritageaudio.com.  All plugins already bought through users.heritageaudio.com count towards the loyalty program.

About Heritage Audio (www.heritageaudio.com)

Heritage Audio was founded in 2011 by Peter Rodriguez. As a civil engineer and music producer, he went from building wind turbines to following his true passion — developing recording equipment with the vintage sound that he himself admired so much and so many others yearned for. Fortunately for all, he was able to master the key elements necessary to make high-quality recording gear affordable and reliable by combining his analytical mindset with his experience as a producer within a relatively short space of time. Today, the 15-person team has expanded its production plant located in the heart of Madrid, Spain, where it collectively continues to follow a philosophy of making vintage sound possible for today’s studios, successfully introducing innovative products to rank amongst the most popular brands with top retailers throughout the world.

As Heritage Audio marks its 15th anniversary in 2026, the motto “Expect the Unexpected” sets the tone for an ambitious year filled with new product launches.

Dark Veil for Soundbox Available Here!

Edinburgh, Scotland, 5th February 2026. Sonora Cinematic, developer of Soundbox
and Kontakt libraries, has announced Dark Veil – a beautifully dark-sounding
instrument for Audiomodern’s free Soundbox sampler platform and the first in a new
series of experimental instruments – The Founder’s Locker.

Recorded, processed and curated by Sonora Cinematic founder and sound designer Alessandro Mastroianni, each title in The Founder’s Locker doesn’t begin with a product idea or market research. Instead, it starts with experiments in sound, building creations from curiosity rather than by design. Only those that remain compelling at the end of the process earn their place in the series.

Elaborating on the concept, Alessandro says, “When we create products at Sonora Cinematic, we have to think about the market. That’s not wrong, it’s necessary, but it also shapes the kind of tools that we make. When I take the company owner hat off and I wear the composer’s, the sound designer’s… a different way of working appears. The musician’s way. This is where ideas come first, not features. Some ideas are strange, some lead to concepts that are too narrow, too personal, too unconventional to ever become ‘proper’ products. For a long time, those ideas stayed hidden, The Founder’s Locker is where they live now.”

Introducing Dark Veil
The first title to enter The Founder’s Locker – Dark Veil, originated with recordings of bowed instruments from the North Caucasus, revealing a dark, textural beauty. Then, the experimentation began – running the sounds through pedals, amps, effect chains and more, reshaping the raw performances into something entirely new.

The result is a textural instrument for Soundbox that makes sublimely playable cinematic drones and immersive atmospheres. Nothing here is meant to sound clean or pristine. Every sound is rich with movement and character.

Dark Veil includes fifteen presets many of which take full advantage of Soundbox’s MPE capabilities. For those users who don’t have an iPad or an MPE controller or simply prefer to use their own standard midi keyboard, the presets are also available in a ’Modwheel’ version, where the Modwheel controls the same parameters.

Pricing
Dark Veil is available now for just £9 (+vat) and, in keeping with the ethos of The Founder’s Locker series, will never be discounted. The combination of affordability and uniqueness make the series an ideal choice for music producers and sound designers craving fresh inspiration with the added assurance that they’re always paying the best price.
Dark Veil requires Audiomodern Soundbox v1.1.1 or later. More titles will be added to The Founder’s Locker soon for Soundbox and other popular platforms.

Find out more: Dark Veil for Soundbox Available Here!

About Sonora Cinematic
Based in Edinburgh, Scotland, Sonora Cinematic is the home for sample libraries and instruments produced by composer and sound designer Alessandro Mastroianni. Collaborating with musicians and audio professionals around the world, their bestselling releases for Kontakt include Panorama Guitars, Emma Legato, Harmonic Bloom, Aria Vocalscapes, Poiesis Cello, and many more, as well as an expanding catalogue of Soundbox instruments featuring vocals, guitars, orchestral textures and others.

NEW YORK, February 4, 2026 – Heavyocity Media proudly announces the release of CONVERGENCE, a bold collision of modern scoring power and iconic analog character. CONVERGENCE delivers the big screen, score-ready sound that Heavyocity is known for – blending decades of iconic analog character with contemporary modern cinematic scoring techniques to get THAT sound.

Designed for immediate inspiration and deep customization, CONVERGENCE ships with over 480 presets meticulously crafted by the Heavyocity team ranging from intricate rhythmic beds, blooming pads, and iconic leads to weighty basses and ready-for-score Cue Creators. Dive into a toolkit of cinematic motion: pulsing rhythms, modern hybrid arps, evolving textures, and bold analog tone shaped for today’s scoring workflows.

With over 130 analog sound sources from foundational core waveforms and retro classics to modern icons, processed hybrids, and non-pitched textures that add depth and 3-D feel, CONVERGENCE is built to deliver instant musicality and endless flexibility as your cue evolves.

“With CONVERGENCE, we wanted to explore the intersection of classic sonic icons and the workflow and techniques of modern scoring” said Ari Winters, Creative Director at Heavyocity. “It’s an emotional journey through decades of analog character and vibe, brought up to modern cinematic standards.”

For a limited time, Heavyocity is offering CONVERGENCE for $119 (reg. $149). In addition, owners of Gravity 2, Oblivion, or Dystropia will get an additional $20 off with a registered serial. Offers end February 20, 2026.

As a “powered-by-Kontakt” instrument, CONVERGENCE offers all playback and sound-shaping functionality through the full version of Kontakt 7 or the free Kontakt 7 Player.

PRICING AND AVAILABILITY

CONVERGENCE will be available at www.heavyocity.com/convergence

Release date: February 4, 2026

CONVERGENCE – $149 USD

Limited-Time CONVERGENCE Offer – $119 USD

Limited-Time CONVERGENCE Offer for Gravity 2, Oblivion or Dystropia owners – $99 USD

Offers End: February 16, 2026

ABOUT HEAVYOCITY MEDIA
Heavyocity Media is a developer of award-winning virtual instruments and effects for computer-based music production, composition, and sound design. Heavyocity’s critically-acclaimed products push the boundaries of creativity, providing new and unique tools for professional composers and producers.

EDINBURGH, UK: The Crow Hill Company is proud to announce availability of VAULTS – GLASS BEAKER as the latest downloadable drop in its free virtual instrument collection, created from the notion that music need not necessarily begin with formal training, specialist instruments, or expensive tools but instead it comes from working directly with sound — specifically, placing a microphone in front of a simple object and exploring what happens through touch, movement, and experimentation, the resulting tone of which feels familiar but resists easy identification, sitting somewhere between a glockenspiel and a celeste without being either — as of February 2…

Though the name gives the game away as to what, exactly, that simple object actually is, VAULTS – GLASS BEAKER acts as an invitation to step away from prescribed methods, to try things, discard them, and arrive at something personal. Put it another way: it treats experimentation as a way of finding sounds that are authentic to its user and, ultimately, original. Of course, the source of those VAULTS – GLASS BEAKER-created sounds had to originate somewhere. Time, then, to reveal that the glass beaker in question was recorded by The Crow Hill Company’s Christian Henson at Gorbals Sound in Glasgow — self-styled as the premiere recording studios in Scotland, thanks to state-of-the-art Neve mixing desks and world-class outboard equipment combined with experienced engineers and excellent client facilities — using an X-Y pair and a spaced pair of Neumann KM 184 end-address cardioid small-diaphragm condenser microphones (often referred to as ‘pencil’ mics) and a close-mic’d Neumann U87 legendary large-diaphragm condenser microphone.

Moving on to the resultant virtual instrument itself, The Crow Hill Company’s Theo Le Derf duly talks through its gorgeous GUI (Graphical User Interface) that should already feel familiar to users of other VAULTS… releases with which it shares its ease of use and lovingly crafted looks. “As always, it’s our intuitive GUI,” he begins, before continuing thus: “The first large dial is CHORUS; this effect adds depth, warmth, stereo width, and a shimmering, watery quality to the glasses. The second large dial is expression [EXP], which gives you finer control over the expressive potential of the glasses. The smaller dials are more concentrated effects, the first one being LPF, or Low Pass Filter, which gradually cuts off the high end of the glasses, giving them a very distant, haunting quality; the next dial along is DELAY, which is an enveloping stereo delay; we also have REVERB, a lush convolution reverb which you can dial in from completely dry to completely wet; and last, but not least, the CRYSTALLIZER, which is a kind of granular synthesis effect, and it can be dialed up for quite a sparkly, ethereal vibe, or dialed back down for a more subtle ambient bed underneath what you’re playing.”

It is fair to say, though, that VAULTS – GLASS BEAKER surely stands as a testament to what sampling enables The Crow Hill Company and, by that same token, its users to do — make beautiful sounds and music with nothing more than a bit of imagination and care, in other words. With that very thought in mind, Theo Le Derf signs off on an upbeat note: “I hope this sample library sparks your imagination and nudges you towards crafting an evocative instrument from something as primitive as a glass beaker. You might surprise yourself with the range of timbres and moods that it can reveal.”

VAULTS… releases from The Crow Hill Company — including …GLASS BEAKER — are free for all to download and make music with for the rest of their lives from here: https://thecrowhillcompany.com/vaults/

For more in-depth information, please visit the dedicated VAULTS – GLASS BEAKER webpage here: https://thecrowhillcompany.com/glass-beaker/

VAULTS – GLASS BEAKER installation and activation require installation of The Crow Hill App — an easy-to-use app designed by the best in the business to provide seamless download, installation, integration, calibration, and organization of The Crow Hill Company tools — available for free from here: https://thecrowhillcompany.com/crow-hill-app/

Although anyone adding a VAULTS… release to their account (https://thecrowhillcompany.com/my-account/) for free can make music with it for the rest of their lives, only six such releases are available to download at any given time — the oldest being ‘rested’ whenever a new monthly release is added. All is not lost for those who may have missed the boat, so-to-speak, since those VAULTS… taken out of rotation periodically reappear as donation-ware, with six rested releases already available as VAULTS ARCHIVE N°01 (https://thecrowhillcompany.com/vaults-archive-no01/) for a small donation to Love Music (https://lovemusic.org.uk), a Scottish dynamic music inclusion and education charity that strives to increase its participants’ confidence, musical skills, and well-being through an exciting range of open-access projects designed to remove all barriers to participation and increase diversity in music-making.

About The Crow Hill Company (www.thecrowhillcompany.com)
Achievable as a result of selling some of the best and most interesting sample plug-ins available today, The Crow Hill Company represents realization of company co-founder and composer Christian Henson’s heartfelt dream of encouraging people to make music and help them on their journey, regardless of whatever point they were at and wherever their journey began by providing access to challenges, content, networking opportunities, and resources. Always abiding by its Make Music, Your Music motto, every month the Edinburgh-based enterprise drops a new VAULTS… release, ready for all to download and make music with for the rest of their lives — free for those who value sound.

© 2026 Crow Hill Productions Ltd

MELBOURNE, VIC, AUSTRALIA: Melbourne Instruments is proud to announce availability of advanced Logic Pro integration for its ROTO-CONTROL motorized software and hardware MIDI controller — creatively expanding upon its successful integration with Ableton Live and Bitwig Studio, demand for integration with Apple’s popular professional DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) for Mac having been strong since said controller launched to widespread critical acclaim a year ago — as of January 15, 2026…

ROTO-CONTROL readily packs eight touch-sensitive motorized knobs — brushless drone motors with Melbourne Instruments’ patented ultra-high-resolution contactless optical sensors offering a lifetime rating in excess of 50 million cycles that equates to 500 times more than conventional pots, precisely — alongside nine high-resolution IPS (In-Plane Switching) LCDs (Liquid Crystal Displays) and 16 backlit RGB (Red, Green, Blue) LED (Light-Emitting Diode) buttons into its classy, compact — 341mm/13.4” (W) x 112mm/4.4” (D) x 44mm/1.7” (H) — form factor to duly deliver haptic feedback and instant parameter recall, communicating with the outside world via MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) over USB (Universal Serial Bus) and 5-pin MIDI DIN (Deutsches Institut für Normung) IN/OUT/THRU connections. Constructed out of ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene) and metal, it robustly weighs in at only 715g/1.58lb, making it the perfect portable production partner for encouraging artists to use sound and music in new and exciting ways — wherever their journey might end up taking them, both creatively and geographically. Get this, though: ROTO-CONTROL now introduces a fully-tactile, motorized workflow to Logic Pro, delivering fast, hands-on control of tracks, plug-ins, Smart Controls, and automation — all thanks to a new firmware update.

MIX mode mirrors Logic Pro’s session track names, colours, and order automatically, while providing high-resolution control of volume, pan, sends, and automation alongside instant access to track selection, paging, mute/solo/arm switching, and dedicated TRACK FOCUS.

Fast, powerful plug-in control comes courtesy of PLUGIN mode, allowing users to browse and select Logic Pro instrument and effect plug-ins instantly from ROTO-CONTROL using simple touch-and-learn mapping for any parameter, with up to eight pages of controls per plug-in stored directly on the device ready for any projects, plus bypass/select controls — all mappings being saved on ROTO-CONTROL and usable across all Logic Pro projects on any computer.

Cutting-edge control continues with Logic Pro’s Smart Controls being automatically mapped to ROTO-CONTROL, controlling up to 16 Smart Control parameters instantly — perfect for working with instruments, macros, and MIDI effects, available in both PLUGIN mode and the dedicated SMART mode itself.

And as if all that was not enough to be getting on with, ROTO-CONTROL can be used to customise labels, colours, haptics, and steps for each control, while integrated transport — play, stop, record, cycle, auto-punch, and playhead — controls are all accessible from any mode.

It is fair to say, then, that Logic Pro users owe it to themselves — and, ultimately, their sound and music — to consider making some space in their creative and physical world for ROTO-CONTROL. After all, motorized and morphing controls, instant recall, and intuitive hardware are only the beginning of their journeying.

ROTO-CONTROL is available to buy at its new North American price of $399.00 USD (excluding tax) in the USA and Canada, while its RRP (Recommended Retail Price) in Australia of $619.00 AU (including GST) and MSRP (Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price) in the EU of €372.35 EUR (excluding VAT), MSRP in Japan/Asia of $469.00 USD, and MSRP in the UK of £389.00 GBP remains unchanged — all via Melbourne Instruments’ growing global network of dealers here: https://www.melbourneinstruments.com/dealers

For more in-depth information, please visit the dedicated ROTO-CONTROL webpage here: https://www.melbourneinstruments.com/rotocontrol

The new (3.0.1) firmware update for ROTO-CONTROL with Logic Pro integration is downloadable for free from here: https://www.melbourneinstruments.com/roto

Become better acquainted with ROTO-CONTROL’s integration with Logic Pro while watching Melbourne Instruments’ informative introductory video here:

About Melbourne Instruments (www.melbourneinstruments.com)
Melbourne Instruments designs and manufactures innovative music technology built around a proprietary motorized knob system that redefines hands-on tactile control. Thanks to contactless motors and high-resolution optical sensing, the knobs deliver dynamic haptic feedback — shifting between stepped, smooth, and switch-like responses — to create a uniquely tactile interaction with sound. Such technology powers the company’s instruments, including the world’s first motorized polysynth, NINA; the expressive, bi-timbral hybrid polysynth, DELIA; and the ROTO-CONTROL motorized MIDI controller… total control with fluid, creative interaction — designed to make music faster, sharper, and more fun. Feel your sound! Duly designed and engineered in Melbourne, Australia.

© 2026 Melbourne Instruments

MEDOLLA, ITALY: having opened eyes and ears with Magnolia pre-production units ultimately stealing the show at SUPERBOOTH25, May 8-10, FEZ-Berlin, Germany, before bringing the 8-VOICE ANALOG THRU-ZERO FM SYNTHESIZER in its final form to Buchla & Friends 2026, January 24-25, C&I Studios, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Frap Tools, hitherto known as a manufacturer of Eurorack modules and accessories alongside professional audio compressors in the 500-Series format, is proud to announce that it is shipping its inaugural instrument — thereby taking it to the musical masses as a polyphonic, bi-timbral analogue synthesizer that, besides classic analogue polysynth sounds, allows for programming some less conventional timbres closer to the world of modular synthesizers, especially those of so-called ‘complex oscillators’ — as of January 29…

Musically, Magnolia brings modular synthesis techniques to the world of analogue polysynths — with all the latter’s advantages: immediacy of use; polyphony, obviously; powerful sound; and all those little unpredictable details, known affectionally as ‘analogue warmth’. With its expressive 61-key keybed from fellow Italians FATAR featuring velocity and polyphonic aftertouch, it is evident from the outset that this is a highly-playable instrument. Indeed, it is meant to be played and, as such, offers users many ways to dynamically interact with the sounds that they make. Many physical access points are built into its well-thought-through design, including PITCH and MOD (modulation) wheels, a MACRO knob (assignable to every parameter) and a MORPH knob (to gradually transform the sound from the settings of part A to the settings of part B), plus two expression pedal inputs.

Above and beyond all that, there are a total of 16 MODULATION SOURCES and 38 modulation destinations — all equipped with an LED (Light Emitting Diode) to indicate whether they are active, three LFOs (Low Frequency Oscillators), three envelopes, and, most importantly, POLYMOVE to be getting on with; the latter is actually a refined random generator that creates a random control signal for every voice and every destination within that voice — anyone seeking a quick way to animate their sounds, from subtle variations to complete chaos, need look no further!

FM (Frequency Modulation) — to which the enthralling 8-VOICE ANALOG THRU-ZERO FM SYNTHESIZER wording tastefully incorporated into Magnolia’s fetching front panel (partly) owes its existence — is often regarded as carriers, operators, and formula weirdness. While this is arguably an accurate depiction of the most refined FM implementation — popularised by many Eighties era digital synthesizers, such as the Yamaha DX7, the Japanese giant behind that super-seller single-handedly successfully commercialising the FM synthesis algorithm developed by American composer, inventor, musician, and professor John Chowning at Stanford University, CA, USA back in 1967, it should not be forgotten that, at the end of the day, FM synthesis itself is simply an oscillator modulating another one at audio rate to create complex sounds. Though this is what is found on Magnolia — albeit its two oscillators per voice beautifully blend an ‘East Coast’ oscillator with PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) and a ‘West Coast’ oscillator with linear TZFM (Thru-Zero Frequency Modulation), wavefolder, and flip sync — alongside an orange TZFM knob to tweak things, it is a more raw and in-your-face way of doing FM without precise ratios and indices, and an approach that its creator guarantees is incredibly fun to play with!

Wondering what thru-zero means? It is really a label that only makes sense when talking about analogue oscillators, tantamount to saying, Hey! I’m an analogue circuit, but I can do real FM!

“Well, we made Magnolia because we wanted to offer our iconic modular analogue sound in a more straightforward instrument that could play chords and other 12-note music right away.” So says Frap Tools Product Designer and Founder Simone Fabbri, before ending on several high — and also thankful — notes: “Inside, we put all our signature sound tools — analogue triangle-core oscillators, thru-zero FM, wavefolders, analogue distortion, and a wild, resonant filter. It’s a powerful instrument, capable of a wide gamut of sounds that range from soft, glass-like pads to earth-shattering distorted leads. And a hands-on modulation matrix allows you to connect 16 modulation sources to 32 modulation destinations by just pushing a button and twisting a knob. Needless to say, we always design every single circuit from scratch, and Magnolia is no exception to this as an actual shrunken version of our popular Eurorack modules — without any stock ICs [Integrated Circuits] whatsoever! We at Frap Tools are all thrilled — and even a bit jittery — by Magnolia’s release. It’s been a long journey, and we faced many challenges, but it’s rewarding to finally see it in stores. We would like to thank all our supporters for sticking with us, and we hope that it will be loved by many musicians!”

Magnolia is available to buy at a MSRP (Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price) of €4,199.00 EUR (including VAT) via Frap Tools’ growing global network of resellers (https://frap.tools/resellers/), with worldwide distribution by Alex4 Distribution (https://www.alex4.de/).

For more in-depth info, including impressive tech specs, please visit the dedicated Magnolia product webpage here: https://frap.tools/magnolia/

About Frap Tools (www.frap.tools)
Frap Tools is an Italian company that has been manufacturing Eurorack modules and accessories alongside professional audio compressors in the 500-Series format for 10 years. Individuality is central to the company’s ethos, evidenced by the refined analogue circuitry and bold graphic design deployed in its products. Pushing onwards and upwards, it is now venturing into the world of high-end keyboard synthesizers, starting with Magnolia.

© 2026 Frap Tools srls

Steinberg releases the latest version of WaveLab, featuring a new, advanced-yet-intuitive workflow for Dolby Atmos mastering which makes immersive audio production simple and efficient.
HAMBURG, Germany — Steinberg has today announced the immediate availability of WaveLab 13, which adds Dolby Atmos® music mastering to more than 30 new features for enhanced workflows, productivity, and audio quality. With multicore rendering and streamlined editing features for both stereo and immersive projects, WaveLab 13 once again sets the standard in the world of mastering.

Mastering for Dolby Atmos
As Dolby Atmos continues to grow across the industry, WaveLab 13 debuts a new Dolby Atmos production workflow, with new Master and Album montages that deliver the tools to finalize immersive sound projects with precision and ease.

The Master montage streamlines the import and editing of ADM files, applying processing, normalizing and re-rendering, while preserving object spatial information. The innovative Immersive Plug-in Hub allows standard VST 3 plug-ins to be inserted across up to 128 audio channels, also allowing bed, clip, and track plug-ins to be inserted. The Album montage makes arranging multiple ADM files into a single, cohesive album master straightforward. Clips can be visualized in multiple formats, from stereo through to 9.1.6, with the option to update the display automatically to match the Dolby Atmos Renderer.

Loudness and TruePeak normalization ensure accurate levels across multiple ADM files, with options to preserve or adjust differences between them and stereo masters. Compatible ADM files can be combined into a new file with crossfade support and multiple ADM files of any type can be merged into one. A stereo reference track enables accurate A/B comparison and length alignment of the ADM file with a stereo master.

Next level plug-ins
True next-generation mastering is delivered by the updated MasterRig 2 plug-in suite, with a sleek modern design, fully scalable user interface, sidechain support, and new, enhanced modules for EQ, compression, limiting, and stereo imaging. Further support for Dolby Atmos workflows comes from the MixerDelay, which aligns speaker channels by individually adjusting delay times, and Bass Manager, which optimizes low-frequency distribution, enhancing clarity and consistency in immersive mixes. Tailored for vocal and speech processing, VocalChain is a state-of-the-art multi-effect which integrates essential tools like EQ, compression, and reverb in a streamlined interface, while UltraShaper merges advanced compression with powerful transient shaping in a single, powerful dynamics processor. Plug-ins can also now be instantly removed from a slot by dragging them outside it.

Faster workflows, greater efficiency
Full multi-core support for Audio Montage elements means multiple tasks can be processed simultaneously, radically reducing render times and making the workflow for complex projects much more efficient.
Switching to another tab seamlessly continues playback from the same position as the previous tab, making full A/B comparison of audio files and clips faster and more precise. Clip audio signals can be routed directly to track plug-ins with sidechain capabilities. Each signal can be adjusted, giving precise control for techniques like ducking and rhythmic processing.

Many improvements to how the WaveLab GUI uses and manages colors include the ability to automatically manage the colors of clips and tracks based on custom rules. Alternatively, random colors can be assigned to all tracks with a single command. The color palette can be customized by choosing the number of hues and brightness levels, with color contrast and clarity for selected clips also improved.

WaveLab 13 includes many more new and enhanced features:
• Wide-ranging improvements to the Audio Montage for faster, more efficient workflows
• Enhanced envelope functions
• Wider VST 3 compatibility
• Range selection via the marker ruler
• Open or paste files from text-based file paths
• Improved waveform outlines on HDPI screens
• Audio processing load bar
• Plug-in interface scaling
• More new plug-ins, including Pitch Shifter and the legendary Underwater effect
• Click-and-drag removal of plug-ins

“We are very proud of what we’ve achieved with WaveLab 13, which includes offering a standardised workflow to master music for Dolby Atmos,” says Luis Dongo, Steinberg Senior Marketing Manager, Pro Audio. “On top of that, with over 30 new features, additional plug-ins and workflow accelerators, WaveLab 13 is a remarkable release that will make both existing and new users very happy.”

David Gould, Sr. Director of Content Creation and Distribution, Dolby Laboratories adds:
“WaveLab 13 is an exciting step forward for Dolby Atmos mastering workflows. As immersive audio continues to grow across the industry, WaveLab brings comprehensive Dolby Atmos capabilities to a broader range of audio professionals. The intuitive workflow combined with advanced processing tools gives mastering engineers the control and flexibility they need for their Dolby Atmos projects.”

Availability and pricing
WaveLab 13 is available from resellers and through the Steinberg Online Shop. The suggested retail price for WaveLab Pro 13 is 499 euros or 499.99 US dollars. The suggested retail price for WaveLab Elements 13 is 99.99 euros or 99.99 US dollars. Prices may vary according to region.
Updates and upgrades are exclusively available through the Steinberg Online Shop. From January 28, 2026, to February 4, 2026, all WaveLab updates and upgrades from previous versions are available at a 15% discount.

Customers who have activated WaveLab Pro 12 or WaveLab Elements 12 or earlier versions from January 1, 2026, are eligible for a free, downloadable grace period update to the latest version, respectively.

Key features
• Dolby Atmos workflow: New Master Montage, Album Montage and high-end plug-ins make finalizing immersive sound projects fast and efficient
• Loudness and TruePeak normalization: Ensure accurate levels across multiple ADM files
• A/B comparison: Compare a current project to an alternative version or a reference track quickly and accurately
• Multi-core support: Simultaneously process multiple tasks in the Audio Montage
• Mastering: Updated MasterRig 2 plug-in suite with new processing modules, sidechain support, and improved user interface
• Vocal production: State-of-the-art VocalChain plug-in designed for vocal and speech processing
• Dynamics processing: Compression and transient shaping in one powerful plug-in
• Clip signal routing: Route signals directly to track plug-ins with sidechain capabilities • Clip and track colors: Navigate projects faster and maintain creative focus with flexible GUI color management
• Plug-in updates: Greater VST 3 compatibility, new Pitch Shifter and Underwater plug-ins, interface scaling, and instant plug-in removal
• Plus, many more improvements to the Audio Montage for faster, more efficient workflows

Product page: www.steinberg.net/wavelab
YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/wavelab

About Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH
Steinberg is known the world over for its music and audio software solutions. The company has been developing, manufacturing and selling innovative products for musicians and producers in the music, film, post-production and multimedia industries since 1984. Steinberg products are used by Grammy and Oscar award-winning composers, engineers and producers.
Visit www.steinberg.net for further details.

Baton Rouge, LA, USA – January 6, 2026 – United is proud to announce the UT Vintage87, a premium large-diaphragm condenser microphone that brings the unmistakable sound and essence of one of history’s most in-demand studio microphones to a far more accessible price point. Streamlined from the acclaimed UT Twin87, the UT Vintage87 delivers the same must-have vintage tone in a fixed, true cardioid design for instant, no-guesswork results in any studio.

“Sometimes people assume that because you make a less expensive version of a product that you have cut some corners in terms of quality of ingredients,” says United co-founder Chad Kelly. “With The UT Vintage87, we have cut no corners whatsoever. It’s built from the same components as the UT Twin87 inside and out; we just eliminated features some users may not need. We made no compromises at all; it has all the warmth, balance, and consistency of the classic, while removing the barriers that usually keep microphones like this out of reach.”

World-class custom components

At the heart of the UT Vintage87 is United’s custom K87-style dual-diaphragm capsule, the UT-K87. Precision milled from brass, skinned with 6-micron Japanese PET film, and finished with a 24k gold-sputtered membrane, each capsule is assembled in a strict clean-room environment. It’s a modern, high-efficiency design that faithfully captures the robust, well-balanced character of the original classics.

Supporting the capsule is a large-core, custom-wound, US-made output transformer developed exclusively by United. Inspired by early German transformer designs but rebuilt without any of the size or mass limitations, the UT transformer uses all-nickel laminations and nearly four times the metal mass of typical ’87-style mic transformers. The result is unmatched headroom, an open and three-dimensional sound, and a low-frequency response that remains fully intact on even the longest cable runs.

United continued its no-compromise philosophy with a selection of premium components rarely found at this price: polystyrene, tantalum, multilayer ceramic, and WIMA film capacitors; tight-tolerance metal and carbon film resistors; and individually selected transistors throughout the circuit.

Classic no-frills cardioid performance

The UT Vintage87 removes the pattern-select circuitry found in the original classic, yielding a truer, hotter, and cleaner cardioid response. A switchable output filter blocks RF and EM interference, ensuring consistent performance in today’s increasingly noisy recording environments.

By eliminating unnecessary complexity while retaining the heart of the iconic design, United has created a microphone that’s timeless — not old. It’s built to the same standard of excellence established by the UT Twin87, now streamlined so that more artists, engineers, and creators can access the legendary ’87 sound that shaped countless records and films.

Key Features:

∙ Faithful reproduction of the vintage German studio microphone
∙ Custom United 24k gold-sputtered dual-diaphragm/dual-backplate K87-style capsule
∙ Switchable RF filter — first time on a vintage-style, ’87-style microphone
∙ True-cardioid pattern — slightly hotter, more pure, and boasts a better signal-to-noise ratio than the classic original
∙ Custom-wound, American-made United transformer with 4x the metal mass of other ’87s
∙ Absolute workhorse — desert-island microphone for professional studios and voice-over
∙ Clean, clear, articulate, open sound
∙ Low noise, high headroom and dynamic range

The United UT Tube67 will begin shipping to United dealers worldwide in Q1 2026 with a US MAP of $399.00 USD and an EU SSP of €529.00 EUR (inc. 19% VAT); to find an authorized dealer, please visit: https://unitedstudiotech.com/en/where-to-buy

For more information, please visit the product webpage here: https://unitedstudiotech.com/en/products/ut-vintage87

About United Studio Technologies (www.unitedstudiotech.com)
Incorporated in 2018, with over 50 years of combined audio industry experience, United Studio Technologies’ mission is to create the best products money can buy — at a price that recording engineers can actually afford. As such, it puts everything it has into its products — from conception, custom and NOS (New Old Stock) parts to, in many cases, final assembly and testing that is done by hand in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.

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HALMSTAD, SWEDEN: award-winning innovative company ISOVOX® is proud to introduce WorkSpace as a studio desk add-on for PA speaker stands — creating compact and ergonomic setups for recording and mixing as a simple, durable, and space-saving solution for creators needing a smart way to organize their computer, audio interface, and speakers around their ISOVOX® 2 portable vocal booth or as a standalone studio setup — as of January 6…

As a space-efficient, portable desk accessory that mounts onto standard PA speaker stands, WorkSpace allows users to create a complete workstation occupying only one square meter, making it the perfect companion for recording and mixing — be that at home, on the road, or in a temporary setup. It is ideal for audiobook narrators, content creators, music producers, vocalists, and voice-over artists alike — anyone needing a flexible and reliable layout that keeps gear accessible with zero clutter.

WorkSpace was co-designed with Gravity® — an Adam Hall Group brand that is a trusted name in live and studio stand solutions, known for its modern design language and rugged build quality — to bring intuitive usability and reliable hardware to the platform concerned, such expertise ensuring a refined and sturdy user experience.

While WorkSpace fits many stands, ISOVOX® recommends TriPod (https://isovoxbooth.com/products/isovox-tripod-stand) — included (as a choice) when purchasing ISOVOX® 2 (https://isovoxbooth.com/pages/isovox-2-portable-vocal-booth), billed as being a revolutionary portable isolation booth by providing recording capabilities on a par with professional studios with no need to soundproof an entire room — for stability and seamless integration. It is even possible to rotate the portable vocal booth concerned through 180°, allowing a performer to face away from the mix station while someone else controls the session — a great setup for collaborative recording. Reality dictates, though, that WorkSpace also functions beautifully as a standalone workstation — no ISOVOX® 2 necessarily needed, in other words.

WorkSpace weighs in at approximately 11 kg/24.24 lbs — its ruggedness reflecting its powder-coated steel construction, coming complete with front and rear center brackets for attachment of one height-adjustable table that can swing through 220° (without colliding with its associated center bracket) — perfect for accommodating a laptop computer; one speaker bar; two 360°-rotatable speaker trays — retractable or extendable for accurate stereo imaging; and a 360°-rotatable accessory tray for essential gear like an audio interface. Included speaker screws are suitable for both speaker trays and direct-mounting speakers with a 3/8” threaded connector, such as Genelec’s 8010A or IK Multimedia’s iLoud® MTM MKII studio monitors. Minimal tool-free assembly and installation is a given, of course.

Creating compact and ergonomic setups for recording and mixing has never been easier than when working with WorkSpace. Clearly, creators needing a smart way to organize their computer, audio interface, and speakers around their ISOVOX® 2 portable vocal booth or as a standalone studio setup surely need look no further.

Anyone attending The 2026 NAMM Show, January 22-24, Anaheim Convention Center, CA, USA can get up close and personal with WorkSpace by swinging by booth 14314 there, where ISOVOX® itself will be exhibiting the future of vocal recording while providing a warm welcome.

WorkSpace will be available to order in Q1 2026 — alone as an add-on in either a black or white finish with a MSRP (Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price) of €499.00 EUR/$599.00 USD or bundled with TriPod with a MSRP of €549.00 EUR/$629.00 USD — via ISOVOX®’s growing global network of dealers and distributors (https://isovoxbooth.com/where-to-buy/) or directly from ISOVOX® itself here: https://isovoxbooth.com/pages/isovox-workspace-portable-studio-desk (TriPod is also available separately — in either a black or white finish — with an MSRP of €199.00 EUR/$199.00 USD from here: https://isovoxbooth.com/products/isovox-tripod-stand)

For more in-depth information, please visit the dedicated WorkSpace webpage here: https://isovoxbooth.com/pages/isovox-workspace-portable-studio-desk

About ISOVOX® (www.isovoxbooth.com)
ISOVOX® is an award-winning innovative company from Sweden. Duly designing products so anyone can practice and record vocals like the pros, but at home or away without disturbing their neighbor’s, its inaugural ISOVOX® 2 vocal booth namesake — featuring four layers of super acoustic materials with patented 360 XYZ Pro Acoustic Construction to control sound waves from all angles (roof, top, bottom, behind, and front), enhancing vocal details and reducing overall volume with a warm and punchy sound without any detrimental breathing particles, unlike any other portable product — found favor with multi-million-selling British singer-songwriter Seal and Los Angeles-based songwriter, recording/mix/mastering engineer, and music producer par excellence Luke Pimentel, to list but a few notable names. ISOMIC™ is its follow-up, a masterly microphone technically tailored for voice recording within the ISOVOX® 2 vocal booth and guaranteed to capture voices like never before, thanks to its revolutionary patented triangular capsule capable of delivering a radio-ready sound with an ear-opening 7 Hz to 87 kHz frequency range! Representing the world’s most exclusive pro-performance pop filter, the limited-edition ISOPOP™ 24K Gold 24K was introduced as a gold-plated brushed aluminum affair aimed at collectors worldwide who wanted to make a Gold record with the finest gear in the world, while its ISOPOP™ Premium sibling — shipping in three color choices — represents an alternative premium product at a more down-to-earth-price, followed by ISOPOP™ BroadCast — itself shipping in two color choices — that redefines the standard for exceptional podcast and broadcast audio and visual quality. With WorkSpace introduced as a studio desk add-on for PA speaker stands, the award-winning innovative company continues its inspiring journey into the future of vocal recording.

© 2026 ISOVOX AB