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The SAE Institute New York opens its doors to music creators for "an unforgettable day of fun, learning, and networking" September 30, 2023, for the IMSTA FESTA New York. IMSTA FESTA New York serv... Read more

Now is the time to reward product developers who create the amazing products that we use. Until the end of September 2023 all KVR Members can nominate their favourite products in 24 categories.

The Winners Announcement - The KVR Developer Challenge 2023, the ninth free-for-all audio plug-in / audio application / soundware design event!

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

Did you know KVR lists over 3000 free plugins in our KVR Product Database? The free VST plugin collection in the KVR Audio database covers a wide range of categories, including equalizers, compressors, reverbs, delays, synthesizers, and more, as well as offers developed for our very own KVR Developer Challenge.

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.