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UVI has launched a brand new version of its hard synth software collection, Synth Anthology 5, now boasting a total of 300 hardware synths within it. The brand describes it as “the largest and most complete edition” of the collection thanks to an additional 100 synths from its previous iteration, spanning “every era, manufacturer, and method of synthesis” in a single software instrument.

Not every DJ booth has room for a pair of full-size CDJs. With that in mind, AlphaTheta has unveiled the CDJ-1500X – a compact DJ multi player designed to bring the flagship CDJ-3000X experience to bars, smaller clubs, mobile DJs and home studios. Despite its smaller footprint, the CDJ-1500X packs in many of the headline features found on its flagship sibling, while adding a few tricks of its own. READ MORE: AlphaTheta DJM-V5 review: Are niche setups the future of DJ gear?

Esteemed plugin brand iZotope has been acquired by VFX software company, Boris FX. The merge means iZotope is no longer part of the Native Instruments family of brands, which was sold to InMusic in May 2026, and comprises Native Instruments, Plugin Alliance and Brainworx.

“Human heart, digital skin: that’s our motto,” says Kelvin Avon from his Hong Kong recording studio and creative hub. That tagline might sound like the pitch for some new sci-fi film, but Avon, a veteran music producer and artist manager, is actually describing the anatomy of Supa Soula – his very own custom-made pop star. Supa Soula is the first in what Avon hopes will be a roster of digital artists signed to his ‘virtual’ record label, WeAreMetaMuse.

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Menura Audio, the manufacturer behind the MDMX modular DJ mixer, has entered the effects space with the launch of its first digital hardware units: the MDFX Delay, a BPM-synced stereo delay, and the MDFX Reverb, a plate reverb designed for live manipulation in the DJ booth. The best part of it all? You don’t have to wait for a unit to try them.

Music royalties tech firm Notes.fm has launched Credits.fm, a “free and open music credits database” that aims to make attribution more accurate and, ultimately, help more artists get paid. Designed to help the music industry organise, verify, and connect the data powering royalties and artist compensation in the age of AI, Credits.fm indexes more than 150 million song codes and credits across a growing network of music rights databases, collection societies, and registries.

Selling tone packs and signature sounds has long been the preserve of established artists with endorsement deals but STL Tones is here to change that. The company behind ToneHub and ControlHub has announced that it’s opening its artist royalty platform to everyone, allowing producers, mixers and artists of all levels to upload their own tones and earn recurring royalties whenever their content is used.

As streaming services and social media increase the demand for artists to keep putting out new music, Raff Di Renzo, founder of Eleven One One Mastering, has noticed more and more independent artists either skipping the mastering process or accepting lower standards. To address this trend, Di Renzo is launching a membership model designed to give independent artists who don’t have big budgets increased access to professional mastering services.

Unusable Engineering is anything but, as it launches four new plugins designed to make complex production processes as simple as possible. All of the new VSTs feature a visual guide demonstrating just how every little twist of the knob changes the sound. The main event in this new drop is Partials and Discrepencies, an eight-voice additive polysynth with up to 128 sine partials per voice.