343 LABS Blog

June is Black Music Month, Output AI generator, Jaime xx announces new album

Studio Tool You Need 🎹 Output's Pack Generator is an AI tool that generates custom sample packs based on your text prompts. Describe your sound in terms of mood, genre, or artist influences, and the Pack Generator will craft a personalized pack for you. The service is completely free

PinkPantheress sparks song length debate, RipX DAW Pro, ViLLAGE spotlight

Studio Tool You Need 🎹 RipX DAW PRO is a specialized tool for advanced audio editing. Unlike DAWs like Ableton, which are designed for creating music from scratch, RipX excels in deep manipulation of existing audio files. It's perfect for tasks like stem separation, note-by-note adjustments, and other AI

It's remix season, MAKID project manager, Oneothrix Point Never spotlight

Studio Tool You Need 🎹 MAKID is an innovative file management system designed specifically for Ableton Live users. It simplifies project organization by offering a streamlined, intuitive interface that automatically categorizes and tracks your Ableton projects. With MAKID, you can preview your tracks without opening Ableton, set project destinations with ease,

"This is America" lawsuit dismissed, iZotope RX 11, Anna Lunoe spotlight

Studio Tool You Need 🎹 iZotope RX 11 is here! The powerful audio repair and restoration software that can help you fix a wide range of audio issues returns with a new edition. Its advanced features include removing background noise, clicks, pops, and repairing clipped audio. It offers various pricing options,

Kendrick v Drake, Beat Scholar rhythm plugin, Lincoln Jessor spotlight

Studio Tool You Need 🎹 Beat Scholar, by Modalics, is a revolutionary rhythm plugin that allows for intricate beat creation with a modular approach. It offers a unique interface where users can manipulate beats down to the finest detail. With its intuitive design, Beat Scholar simplifies complex rhythms, making it accessible

FKA Twigs testifies before Congress, Google's Magenta Studio, Saba spotlight

Studio Tool You Need 🎹 Google's Magenta Studio is a suite of AI-powered tools designed to enhance the music creation process within Ableton Live. It includes features like a melody generator, drum pattern generator, and a tool that suggests composition continuations based on your existing work. These tools use

Record Store Day, Vaults Beta Library, Tourist spotlight

Studio Tool You Need 🎹 Vaults Beta is a VST and sound library offering high-quality samples, presets, and patches for music creation. This plugin allows you to access a wide range of sounds, from realistic orchestral instruments to electronic synths and drum kits. Best of all, it's completely free!

Festival Season begins, SynthGPT, Mel Blue spotlight

Studio Tool You Need 🎹 SynthGPT is a VST audio plugin that lets you create synthesizer sounds using text descriptions. Simply describe the sound you want, and SynthGPT will provide several options for you to choose from. The plugin is exclusively available as part of the Fadr Plus subscription, which is

Universal Audio discount, A plug for FREE plugins, POOLCLVB spotlight

Studio Tool You Need 🎹 Plugins4Free is a website offering a vast collection of FREE plugins that cover everything from pianos and synths to reverbs, compressors, drums, virtual instruments, effects, and utilities. Check it out here! Production Sauce 🎵 Flow Prod uses Ableton Drum Synths to lay down a beat using the

Bandcamp alternative, Oeksound's Bloom, The Marias spotlight

Artist Background 343 Lab's Brian Jackson recently did an interview with Audeze giving us the inside scoop to how he started, how he became successful in the music industry, and some advice for fellow artists as well! Check out the full interview here. Brian Jackson is also a

More industry troubles, Native Instruments 9 for 99 sale, Lea Porcelain artist spotlight

Studio Tool You Need 🎹 From now until April 9th, Native Instruments is doing a 9 for 99 sale on their site! You can choose 9 of any of their available expansion packs for just $99! If you already have Komplete, this is a solid deal and can absolutely spark some

Music industry meltdown, iZotope Trash relaunch, Captain Monk artist spotlight

Studio Tool You Need 🎹 IZotope has reintroduced its popular distortion plugin, Trash. It returns with a complete redesign, new features, and support for AUv3 and is available as a free version called Trash Lite. The relaunch features over 60 distortion types, a reverb with over 600 impulse responses, an envelope

Ableton Live 12 officially released, Splice's AI Create Tools, Joy Anonymous artist spotlight

Studio Tool You Need 🎹 Combobulator is an incredible AI-based plugin from DataMind Audio that processes incoming audio signals through neural networks. It uses a process called "style transfer," which resynthesizes the audio in the style of another artist. Watch the video above and read more about the plugin

Charli XCX's viral Boiler Room set, Essential chord progressions, Salt Cathedral artist spotlight

Studio Tool You Need 🎹 NUSofting's new FREE effects plugin, Sosir Freeze-Delay, freezes and delays the input signal of a pluck-style sound, creating sustained bowed sounds. The virtual bow, the part of the plugin that freezes the input signal, and a delay line joined to an LFO with feedback

Ableton Live 12 release date, Kontakt 7 on sale, A Beacon School artist spotlight

Studio Tool You Need 🎹 Native Instrument's Kontakt 7 is available for HALF OFF until March 5th! If you don't have it already, it may be time, as this sample platform has hundreds of virtual instruments available at your fingertips! Check out this video of Sounwave, a

New music releases, Jumble sample explorer, !!! artist spotlight

Studio Tool You Need 🎹 Jumble by Soundghost is a "randomized sample explorer" that will randomize positions within the loop of audio dropped into its sample playhead. This creates new loops and patterns synced to your DAW's tempo. Jumble has a number of other features that can

Best Audio Interfaces in 2024, Artcore, Jidenna Spotlight

Studio Tool You Need 🎹 Need to upgrade your interface or buy your first one? Here's a list of some of the best Thunderbolt and USB audio interfaces in 2024 across every budget. Don't forget that depending on what kind of musician you are, whether you use

Music Industry Women on the rise, Low End Mixing, BETWEEN FRIENDS Spotlight

Studio Tool You Need 🎹 Baby Audio's Atoms Synth is keeping things simple with six parameters. This unique synth uses physical modeling as a central visualizer, that is affected by each of the six controls, allowing users also to see how their decisions are visually tweaking the sound. It

NAMM 2024, Create Burial style pads, this week's artist pick

Studio Tool You Need 🎹 AlphaTheta, PioneerDJ's rebrand, debuted its brand new battery-powered portable controller, OMNIS-DUO. The controller comes with the usual you would expect from DJ gear, such as EQ knobs, volume faders, and jog wheels, but it does have a pretty decent-sized touchscreen! The touch screen allows

Sample sounds from NASA's telescope, New Public Domain, SoundCloud on sale

Studio Tool You Need 🎹 Ever wanted to make music with NASA's telescope? Well, now you can, sort of. NASA's Chandra X-ray Center recorded digital data from telescopes and transformed them into notes and sounds. It allows the listener to experience what the telescopes have "seen&

New Plugin by Minimal Audio, Future Garage tutorial, and FREE Plugin until the end of the month!

Studio Tool You Need 🎹 Swarm Reverb is Minimal Audio's latest plugin, a dual-stage reverb with separate algorithms and controls, making it capable of creating everything from expansive ambience to lush effects. Swarm Reverb is available on Windows and Mac for $49; check it out here. Production Sauce 🎵 Take

Polyend's Play+, FREE Plugin from Baby Audio, Build synths like ODESZA and Flume

Studio Tool You Need 🎹 Play+ is a follow-up to Polyend's original midi-based sample groovebox Play, it gives users far more creative options with four built-in synth engines. There's the ACD, a single-oscillator monophonic analogue emulator, the warm vintage classic analogue sounds of FAT, the dual-oscillator design

FREE Arturia plugin, Flume production tricks, TOKiMONSTA's new platform

Studio Tool You Need 🎹 Efx Refract by Arturia is a multi-effect with a unison-based architecture that gives you a rich, phasing chorus-like sound. It is available for FREE only until January 4th, and it will cost $99 afterward. Check it out here! Production Sauce 🎵 Synthhacker demos some cool delay tricks

Revoice Pro 5, MPE on Ableton Push, AI-Powered Plugins at your service!

Studio Tool You Need 🎹 Revoice Pro 5 by Synchro Arts is a new and improved version of their Revoice vocal production software. Pro 5 comes with a variety of features like the Shaper tool, transparent and advanced pitch correction, sibilance control, formant-shifting, and much more! Check it out here. Production

Moog Mariana, Jhene Aiko Style Productions, FREE Native Instruments Giveaway!

Studio Tool You Need 🎹 The Moog Mariana is a dual-layer Bass Synthesizer, continuing the concepts of some popular Moog synths! It is available for macOS, Windows, and iOS! Check out some of its more in-depth features here. Production Sauce 🎵 Watch producer Stefan Guy make a soulful R&B beat