Modartt has taken the physical modelling behind Pianoteq and Organteq and pointed it somewhere new. Airteq gives you a rack of virtual pipes, real-time control over the air that drives them, and over 170 presets — a sound-design instrument that sits somewhere between an organ and a synth.

Antares AutoTune Advanced is a ground-up rebuild of the Auto-Mode pitch algorithm, with a new DVA engine that detects your singer's natural vibrato and leaves it alone. Here's what's new, what it runs on and what it costs.

Synchro Arts VocAlign 7 brings every vocal in your session into one multitrack workspace, so you can align entire stacks in a single operation. Here's what's new, what it runs on and what it costs.

Acon Digital's Acoustica 8 rebuilds DeNoise and DeHum around machine learning, so you no longer need a clean noise profile to start cleaning. Add a redesigned Spectral Editor, ARA2 in every edition and immersive support up to 9.1.6, and it's the biggest release in the company's 25-year history.

MeldaProduction's MDrumCleaner tackles drum bleed with five algorithms built around intelligent hit detection — so you can lift the snare without inheriting the hi-hat. Out now, with an intro price until 31 October 2026.

Dreamtonics has stepped away from vocal synthesis to launch Instrument X, a Neural Acoustics Modeling platform that models orchestral strings, woodwinds and brass rather than streaming them from disk. Here's what it does and what it costs.

Lewitt's Space Replicator 2.0 adds a standalone app, per-room EQ, an EBU-standard virtual mixing room and three new headphone simulations, a free update for existing users.

PSPaudioware has officially launched PSP BBDelay, a bucket-brigade delay plug-in inspired by the Dynacord VRS 23, with detailed BBD chip modelling, transient shaping, ducking, gating and analogue-style saturation.

D16 Group's PunchBox 2 reinvents the cult kick-drum plugin with a new wavetable engine, multi-segment envelopes, refreshed effects and multi-output routing.

Waves has released V17, a major catalogue-wide update with a completely redesigned preset system, live and studio workflow upgrades, and Mix Unlock — real-time stem separation of finished stereo audio inside your DAW.