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Back in 2023, Tracktion and Dawesome unveiled Love, an “instant ambient” multi-effects plugin that combined pitch-shifting, time-stretching, reverb and granular delay to produce dreamy, ethereal sounds that’ll have you all googly-eyed.

Today, the company releases Hate, a “twisted counterpart” to Love that’s designed to achieve the opposite effect, promising to do “raw, destructive and crushing” things to your audio.

Developed by Dawesome, at its core Hate is a distortion plugin, but features a number of additional effects that push it well beyond classic distortion territory and turn it into something of a multi-effects powerhouse, much like its amorous predecessor.

Hate lets you shape sound in ways that feel fresh, musical, and inspiring — never generic. The plugin is based on a innovative wavetable distortion engine that lets you create your own wavetables: drop any audio file into Hate and it’ll be transformed into a custom saturation shape that can be tweaked using a variety of additional controls, meaning that each distortion you design is entirely unique.

Sounds can be further pulverized by chaining together up to six effects modules from a varied collection of 29 processors that includes classic effects such as compression, EQ, filter, delay, and reverb alongside a host of more unconventional sound-mangling tools.

These include several more styles of distortion, including saturation, bitcrushing and asymmetric, while the Raspator module utilizes feedback-frequency modulation to “reshape your audio in ways that oscilloscopes have nightmares about”.

Other highlights are J-60, an emulation of the famed Juno-60 chorus, Loophole, a module equipped with six parallel micro-loopers that can create glitchy and unpredictable textures, and Orbit, a novel modulation effect inspired by celestial mechanics.

Here’s the official preset demo:

Full Specs:

• Wavetable-based Saturation / Distortion.
• Some very unique distortion effects like Raspator, Mal-Sync, Atari-Punk for your signature sound.
• Pedal board with up to 6 modules chained.
• 29 modules to choose from.
• 200+ presets crafted by top sound designers.
• Creative Randomiser with the possibility to exclude parts from randomisation.
• 90 days free trial without any constraints.
• All parameters fully automate-able in the DAW.
• And finally a manual that you won’t hate.

Hate can be trial free for 90 days, and is currently available for the introductory price of $35.40 (regular price $59). It runs on PC and Mac in VST3/AU formats.

Find out more on Tracktion website.

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Today, Moog Music announced that it is retiring the Subsequent 25, its compact paraphonic analog synthesizer.

Here’s their official announcement:

“Introduced as an evolution of Sub Phatty’s analog design, Subsequent 25 refined Moog’s warmth, depth, and character while offering modern connectivity and enhanced capabilities. From its bass and lead tones to its performance features, Subsequent 25 carried forward our commitment to hands-on synthesis.

Effective March 13th, 2025 we will be indefinitely suspending production of the Sub 25 with the remaining units available through our global dealer network.

Moog Music remains dedicated to supporting all owners of the Subsequent 25. We will continue to provide repairs, maintenance, and parts to ensure your instrument operates at its best for years to come.”

Here’s the original Subsequent 25 intro video:

It looks like the price has been cut on the Subsequent 25, along with the announcement. We’re seeing the price drop from $999 to $699 at several US retailers.

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It looks like new US tariff taxes are starting to impact synth prices, with some prices jumping close to 70%.

The Trump administration recently announced a wide range of tax increases on goods imported into the US. The new tariffs promise to hit instrument prices hard, unfortunately, since almost all synths and electronic music gear is now either made in China, or made with Chinese parts.

People are reporting that pricing on Behringer gear spiked significantly overnight at some retailers. Here are a few examples:

• Behringer Poly D Polyphonic Analog Synthesizer – was $569, now $629
• Behringer Wave – was $599, now $689
• Behringer Swing USB MIDI Keyboard Controller – was $99, now $169
• Behringer Pro VS Mini Hybrid Vector Synthesizer – was $99, now $119
• Behringer JT-4000 Micro Hybrid Modeling Synthesizer – was $49, now $70.90
• Behringer UB-Xa 16-voice Bi-timbral Polyphonic Analog Synthesizer – was $999, now $1299
• Behringer System 55 Eurorack Modular Synthesizer – was $1,599, now $1,899

It’s not clear yet how broadly tariffs will impact pricing across the music gear industry, but this is probably a taste of what’s to come.

What do you think about the new taxes and their impact on music gear prices in the US?  Bad economic policy? Opportunistic price gouging?  Share your thoughts in the comments!

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