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Pulsar Smasher KVR Audio's greatest asset is its member community. YOU make KVR an essential destination for discussion of music and audio products. We want to learn more about you, your current th... Read more

Marcus Ryle has been one of the Music Products industry's most successful entrepreneurs. He has earned this with clear and clever thinking, hard work, and by being both a musician and technologist. To... Read Interview

The KVR Developer Challenge 2023, the ninth free-for-all audio plug-in / audio application / soundware design event, is now live! The KVR Developer Challenge is for anyone who develops Audio Plug-ins or Applications and Soundware. The challenge is to create and release a brand new free audio plug-in, application or sound library / pack / set that will benefit the community at large.

We're excited to announce the winners of the KVR Readers' Choice Awards 2022. The KVR community has spoken and rewarded their favorite developers for work well done. The 2022 RCA has some new faces.

The Moog Minimoog is perhaps the most celebrated and well known synthesizer of all time and as such has inspired numerous VST emulations over the past years. Check out our list of 7 of the best Minimoog emulations out there.

The finest orchestral composers are aware that articulations are what give their score a distinctive voice and make it memorable for the listener. This is true regardless of whether the score is being written for a movie, video game, popular music, or a concert hall. They lend a sense of drama, romance, passion, or even dread to the sound of an orchestra, colouring the music in myriad of different ways.

TRIAZ is the latest offering from respected sound design label Wave Alchemy. Having built a reputation for their excellent drum and percussion sample libraries over the years, their more recent offerings have included numerous sample-based instruments such as Drumvolution, Bass Synth, Revolution and more. TRIAZ, which runs in Native Instruments' free Kontakt Player, is the newest entry to this line of instruments.

French born Gregory Reveret is an award-winning composer/producer based out of Los Angeles, California. We chatted to Greg about some of his plugin highlights.

April 2021 sees a new general articles section launched, in which we will feature anything and everything - buying guides, product round-ups, comparisons, shootouts, inane ramblings, guest posts, lottery predictions, who knows? We kick it off with a few updates on recent KVR happenings.