Blue Cat has updated their Dynamics plug-in set for Mac and PC to version 3.0. Blue Cat dubs the product a “dynamics effect processor” since they feel it can be used as a compressor, limiter, gate, expander or even waveshaper for distortion. The plug-in includes an input filter as well as a side chain filter, in order to control the frequencies...

Best Buy, the third-largest music seller behind Apple’s iTunes and Wal-Mart, is set to debut a vinyl only section in each of its 1000 stores after the industry announced that the OG format logged a 15% uptick in sales this past year. Don’t get too excited. Best Buy is only devoting a “whopping” eight square feet of merchandising space...

Kenwood has unveiled a set of stereo speakers that is also an OLED white light panel. The prototypes feature ultra-thin, flat speaker technology and incorporate the OLED light source to double as lamps. They were developed through a joint venture between Kenwood and Professor Junti Kido from Japan’s Yamagata University. Apparently, these speakers are a...

When the turntable paradigm finally bites the dust, you may find such concepts as Cambridge-based designer Todd Vanderlin’s new multidimensional controller take its place. Using a vinyl record (it could really be anything however) tagged with an AR marker, Vanderlin “scratches” the track by manipulating the tag in front of a video camera. The...