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‘It smears out the sound like ketchup on a mayo sandwich’: move over, Sausage Fattener, because Dada Life is now serving its Secret Sauce bundle – Three easy-to-use plugins that are designed to give your music a hefty dash of sonic seasoning.

The Dada Life Secret Sauce bundle is a new EDM-friendly collection of 3 plug-ins with a reverb, a pitch riser effect, and a stereo widener.

Famed for their much-loved Sausage Fattener plugin, which also was licensed from developer Tailored Noise, Swedish duo Dada Life are now giving you access to their Secret Sauce. This takes the form of a three-plugin bundle that contains a reverb, a riser effect and a stereo widener.

The term secret sauce is often used to describe that almost intangible stardust that the best producers seem capable of sprinkling on their tracks, but Dada Life seem to think that they’ve managed to distil this into something practical and real. “They say you should never give away the secret ingredient,” they explain. “Well, we just did!”

The first cab off the Secret Sauce rank is Space-In-Your-Face, a reverb plugin that’s “just wider and better than the rest”. This is an enhanced version of the reverb that was included in Dada Life’s Endless Smile plugin, and can range in size from small to huge.

Eternal Return can take your risers and buildups higher (quite literally, by the sounds of it), while Wide Awake Rainbow is a stereo widener that “smears out the sound like ketchup on a mayo sandwich”.

Each plugin has just a couple of knobs, so it’s about tweaking to taste rather than calling up presets.

The Secret Sauce bundle runs on PC and Mac in VST/AU formats and is available now priced at $39. You can grab it now on the Dada Life website.

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Developer Ryo Togawa has introduced VAPolyMkII, a virtual analog bitimbral polyphonic synthesizer for iPhone, iPad and Mac.

VAPolyMkII is a 16-voice synthesizer, with effects, sequencer and audio visualization tools. It operates standalone or as an AudioUnit Extension (AUv3). Stand Alone supports Ableton Link, MIDI and audio file export.

The synthesizer consists of two 8 voice synthesizer, which features two oscillators, two ADSR envelopes, resonant high pass and low pass filter and an amplifier per voice. The oscillators features continuously variable wave shape and wide variety of modulation. The filters are modeled on the Sallen-Key filter circuit and cascaded OTA filter circuit for classic analog sound.

The Effects include delay, chorus, flanger, reverb, eq and compressor. The sequencer features piano roll and parameter automation editor to program 16 bar pattern per clip. Project files can be saved in iCloud Drive, so that the project can be accessed from iPhone, iPad or Mac.

Features:

• Virtual analog 16-voice bitimbral polyphonic synthesizer
• Two type of Lowpass filter, cascaded OTA model and Sallen-key model.
• Patch points for modulation.
• Support MIDI 2.0
• New User Interface built by SwiftUI for improved performance and to ensure compatibility of future OS.
• Built-in Sequencer. 16 bar patterns per clip. Total 8 clips. Piano Roll and Parameter automation.
• Support Audio Unit Extension (AUv3)
• Works on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Support iCloud Drive to share project files between the platforms.
• Audio Export. Linear PCM format (AIFF, WAV and CAF) and compressed format (AAC)
• Support Ableton Link, Bluetooth MIDI, MIDI In / Out.

VAPolyMkII is available now with intro price $5.99 till February 29 (regular price $14.99).

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‘A new chapter in the evolution of DJing’- Algoriddim brings a reimagined version of djay to Apple Vision Pro, and all versions of the software can now stream and mix songs from Apple Music. And for most people, the Apple Music integration will be a much bigger deal.

It probably hasn’t escaped your notice that Apple’s Vision Pro “spatial computer” lands today, along with a wide variety of apps. One of these, it turns out, is a reimagined version of Algoriddim’s djay, but perhaps the bigger news is that, in tandem with this announcement, it’s been confirmed that all versions of djay are now getting full compatibility with Apple Music.

“We’re thrilled to introduce djay for Apple Vision Pro. Its innovative spatial interface offers a completely new way to experience music and marks a new chapter in the evolution of DJing”, said Karim Morsy, CEO of Algoriddim. “Integrating Apple Music across the entire djay product line represents a significant milestone in Algoriddim’s mission to make DJing accessible to everyone.”

The reimagined Vision Pro version of djay – already a hit on iOS, Mac, Windows and Android – enables you to mix on a set of virtual 3D turntables, interacting with them by moving the needle around or scratching. You can position yourself in various immersive environments, and there are light shows that respond in time to your performance.

Other features include the ability to preview songs by ‘holding’ your ‘headphones’ to your ear, navigate songs with gaze and pinch gestures, browse playlists with eye movements and mimic the act of pulling a record out of its sleeve and putting it on the turntable.

All clever stuff, we think you’ll agree, but a high price point means that the Vision Pro is likely to remain a niche product for the foreseeable future. As such, the new version of djay may only be of passing interest to you, but if you already use the software on another platform, the Apple Music integration could be a rather big deal.

To confirm, this means that, assuming you’re an Apple Music subscriber, you now have access to more than 100 million songs, plus those that are in your own personal Apple Music (formerly iTunes) library. This is the first time that Apple has opened up its catalogue for DJing purposes, so for Algoriddim, it’s quite a coup.

It also goes some way to filling the void left when Spotify pulled its service from djay (and all other mixing platforms) in 2020, for reasons that were never fully clarified. Since then, djay users have been able to stream songs via Tidal and Soundcloud, but Apple Music – Spotify’s closest rival in terms of market share – is a much bigger fish to net.

A brief test confirms that Apple Music streaming in djay works seamlessly and, even if you’re not much of a DJ, gives you an excellent way of auto-mixing through a playlist at a party. Existing Apple Music subscribers are eligible for an exclusive 2-month free trial of the full djay Pro subscription; for everyone else, the price is $7/£7/€7 a month or $50/£49/€50 a year, though there’s also a free version with a more limited feature set. Find out more on the Algoriddim website.

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