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The Bob Moog Foundation Archives has received a major donation of nearly 300 items from the estate of electronic music pioneer Herbert A. Deutsch, who passed away nearly a year ago, on December 9, 202... Read more

We're excited to announce the winners of the KVR Readers' Choice Awards 2023. Once again the KVR community has spoken and rewarded their favorite developers for work well done. The 2023 RCA has some new faces.

Who doesn't love a vocoder? These devices can transform signal, most notably the human voice, into a variety of sounds, from robotic to musical. They have been used in many genres of music, from electronic to hip-hop, as well as in film and television. Check out a few of our current favorites, two of which you can pick up for free!

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

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.