Developer Andreas Pohl has released AudioGridder, a macOS-only client-server system that lets you offload plugin processing to any other computers in your network. As you probably know, plugins and virtual instruments can be rather hungry for CPU resources. Even if you have a powerful computer, a single DAW session with multiple instances of virtual synthesizers, [...]

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8Dio has released The New Cajon and Bongo, a freely downloadable percussion sound library for Native Instruments Kontakt. The New Cajon and Bongo sound library is based on over 7,500 individual Cajon drum and bongo sounds. The sounds were captured from four bongos, two Cajon drums, and two Cajon snares with multiple articulations and velocity [...]

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Analog Obsession has released LALA, a freeware emulation of the LA-2A tube compressor in VST, VST3, and AU plugin formats for digital audio workstations on PC and Mac. LALA is Analog Obsession’s first emulation of the LA-2A Classic Leveling Amplifier. The plugin delivers all the core features of the original hardware unit, along with some [...]

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Spitfire Audio is offering the new BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover ($49 value) virtual instrument as a free download for everyone who fills out a questionnaire on the company’s website. The download link will be delivered fourteen days after completing the questionnaire. BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover is Spitfire Audio’s brand new, super-affordable orchestra virtual instrument in [...]

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SampleScience has released Toy Keyboard 2, a freeware sample-based instrument featuring the sounds of the Yamaha PSR-78 home keyboard. Toy Keyboard 2 is a free virtual instrument in VST, VST3, and AU plugin formats for compatible digital audio workstation software on PC and Mac. It features 73 individual presets, including one drum kit. The presets [...]

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The $130 entry fee is being waived indefinitely, as interest in playing video games surges during the coronavirus pandemic.

Orcas Island artist Brook Meinhardt is making new art kits each week to give to local kids, and the demand keeps getting bigger.

The Seahawks on Monday filled out their roster by announcing the official signing of 12 more undrafted rookie free agents while waiving four veterans.

Inslee's stay-home order, initially issued in March, bans church and religious services, but permits one-on-one "religious counseling," state lawyers argued.

Inslee's stay-home order, initially issued in March, bans church and religious services, but permits one-on-one "religious counseling," state lawyers argued.

On a busy day of transactions, the Storm traded guard Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis on Monday hours after signing free-agent guard Epiphanny Prince. Seattle sent Mosqueda-Lewis to Connecticut for a 2021 second-round WNBA draft pick. The five-year veteran was selected at No. 3 overall by the Storm in the 2015 draft.  She averaged 5.3 points, 1.1 rebounds […]

Inslee's stay-home order, initially issued in March, bans church and religious services, but permits one-on-one "religious counseling," state lawyers argued.

In hundreds of cases, patients seeking mental-health treatment in Washington state have been held against their will or threatened with involuntary commitment.

Suddenly everybody's a fan of big government, now that a crisis has hit. But we're not ready for this one -- precisely because of the decades-long movement arguing that government needs to be slashed and burned.

Washington state and the city of Seattle have both made far-reaching promises to cover college tuition costs for many students. Despite the economic downturn, they say they will keep those promises.

Like many farmers and ranchers in Idaho, Ryan Cranney began feeling the effects of COVID-19’s disruption in the restaurant supply chain in mid-March. What was supposed to be a good year for Cranney Farms’ crops quickly turned into a surplus he couldn’t sell. That is when he took to Facebook and put out a call […]

The Seahawks on Monday filled out their roster by announcing the official signing of 12 more undrafted rookie free agents while waiving four veterans.

Grocery chain Kroger Co. said it is making free COVID-19 testing available for its employees, based on their symptoms and medical needs. The company's healthcare division, Kroger Health, will begin offering COVID-19 testing to associates from this month. Workers will be provided self-administered kits or an appointment at the company's public drive-thru testing sites.

Albert Castiglia is one of those artists that can really express themselves onstage

A doctor at Pinecrest Nursing Home describes the devastation of COVID-19, Michael Ignatieff on Hungary's slide into autocracy, weighing Alberta's decision to invest in Keystone XL, pro wrestling goes audience-free, why Tiger King went viral and more.

The internet offers a huge amount of information, usually for free. So how has that affected the institutions we have traditionally learned from: our schools, colleges, and universities?

American legal scholar Brett Frischmann says we have to wake up to the risk of losing our humanity to 21st techno-social engineering. He warns humans are heading down an ill-advised path that is making us behave like ‘perfectly predictable’ simple machines.

Internet provider Freedom, de 'opvolger' van het door KPN ingelijfde XS4ALL, zou vorige week groots van start gaan. Het zal echter niemand verbazen dat de uitbraak van het coronavirus ook hier roet in het eten gegooid heeft. De lancering is voor onbepaalde tijd uitgesteld. De geplande Launch Party in Paradiso was drie weken geleden al afgelast.

The marriage of one of WA's worst sex offenders is one of the key factors why he should not be released from prison because of fears his wife could be "at risk of harm from him".

WA has now posted six days in a row without a new case of COVID-19 after no new cases were recorded overnight, with 95 per cent of people who contracted the virus in the state now recovered.

As part of Ausmusic Month, ABC Ballarat takes you through 30 CDs from local artists in 30 days...

Leaders announce a series of different measures for schools across the country, with some calling on parents to keep children at home if they can. Here's what is happening in each state and territory.

The only sexual health clinic that is free for all Victorians is under enormous strain. Consultations have doubled in the past decade and sometimes the Carlton clinic is so busy, it has to turn people away.

Hakeem al-Araibi's story is testament to the adage "the power of one". This is how former Socceroos captain Craig Foster led a global campaign to free the fellow footballer who was wrongfully imprisoned overseas and exposed bureaucratic slip-ups that landed him there.

Budget cuts, funding freezes, and tight rental markets put pressure on homeless services as more people end up on the street.

A bus driver jailed for seriously injuring six passengers when he crashed into South Melbourne's Montague Street Bridge in 2016 is released after an appeal.

Award winning children's writer Kim Wilkins assumes a pseudonym as she turns her hand to 'chick literature' with Wildflower Hill.

Triple murderer Matthew De Gruchy has been driven away from Sydney's Long Bay jail after serving 23 years of his 28-year sentence for bludgeoning to death his mother and younger brother and sister.

Australia has an extensive list of previously banned books that were once considered "obscene" and a threat to the country's morals and literary standards.

South Australia records its first new COVID-19 case in a fortnight, with a man who returned from the UK in March testing positive weeks after he is believed to have contracted the virus.

Two of the state's most powerful unions, which represent professions at the forefront of the coronavirus pandemic in Queensland, are fighting the Labor State Government's plans to freeze all public servant pay rises in the coming financial year.

Many Western governments continue to struggle with free speech. It’s not that they’re necessarily against it, it’s just that they don’t know how to effectively regulate out the offensive stuff.

A tale of two media environments: in the US, journalistic freedom is increasingly under threat from demonising rhetoric and the violent personal targeting of reporters; while in Ethiopia, the country’s new leader has opened the gate to press freedom. What can we learn from both experiences?

Book-loving Tasmanians are bucking the trend and turning to libraries in their thousands, less than a year after the state became the first in Australia to abolish fines and processing fees for overdue books.

Dashcam footage shows an out-of-control truck hurtling through a red light at the base of Adelaide's South Eastern Freeway, moments after the vehicle lost its brakes and was forced onto the wrong side of the road.

Dashcam footage shows the truck's brakes smoking, before it hurtles through a red light at a notorious intersection.

A teenager is in a serious but stable condition after being hit by a train at Edwardstown in Adelaide's south-west.

A Victorian driver allegedly tests positive to methamphetamine after his truck ran out of fuel on the South Eastern Freeway, causing traffic delays. It coincides with a report showing 60 per cent of trucks are failing safety inspections.