Updates

Adding reverb is easy; placing a sound at a believable distance is harder. How distance actually works in a mix, why reverb turns muddy, and a workflow for front, middle and back.

A gate on drums can give you punch and separation or chop the life out of the kit. How threshold, attack, hold and release work together, with starting points for kick, snare and toms.

Saturation can put a vocal in front of the mix or make it tiring in thirty seconds. How to drive it, where it goes in the chain, and how to tell warmth from damage.

A limiter turns the level down; a clipper reshapes the peak itself. Here is how they sound different, where each one belongs, and how to use both on the same master without guessing.

OR-70 is a free plugin for macOS and Windows: a creative layer processor that turns a sound into spectral, rhythmic and harmonic layers driven by one macro. No licence key, no expiry.

CL-80 is a true-peak limiter and soft clipper in one instrument, for masters, drum buses and 808s that have to get loud without going flat. Permanent licence, €25, for macOS and Windows.

The biggest update to Comet Sound AI since launch: it understands the way you actually talk about sound, builds complete chains, works across every track in your session and lets you undo step by step. Available now for every Pro member.

Six plugins and a desktop app that moves real parameters, for macOS and Windows, signed and notarised. What shipped, how the licence behaves, and what lands on your machine when you download.

An AI mixing assistant that proposes parameter moves you confirm, runs entirely on your machine, and never touches your audio. Here is exactly what it does — and the four things it deliberately does not do.

The ghost-kick-into-a-compressor trick works, but it is fragile. Here is how to get the same pumping movement by shaping volume directly — and how to set it up with StarChain in four moves.