Speaking of software, there's been a lot of effort to monetize the Abbey Roads name in terms of software. There's a number of "Abbey Roads" drums, for example, that Native Instruments has. Then there are software emulations of different devices:

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The Abbey Road Collection includes the acclaimed REDD consoles, RS56 Passive EQ (‘the Curve Bender’) and J37 Tape, as well as the vintage King’s Microphones and the pioneering Reel ADT.


Averaging about $200 per plugin, that's not cheap magic. And apparently licensing agreements on magic is also tricky:

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As of October 2013, we have discontinued the sale of the TG12413 Limiter, TG Mastering Pack and RS124 Compressor plugins.

The Brilliance Pack has not been discontinued: under a new partnership agreement, the Brilliance Pack is now being sold and supported by Softube, the original plugin developer

Of course, all this runs counter to the basic idea of the article. Any "magic" that was there came from innovative ways to use the tools, not from the tools themselves.


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My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?