Let’s get this out of the way immediately – MuLab packs some fantastic synth sounds. Jo Langie has been building and reiterating on music production software for over 35 years, making MuLab the culmination of his life’s work. What did this one have? Well, the same as before, but also adding in things like a dedicated synth, delay, reverb, automation, a good mixer, and more. It was probably Jo Langie’s second most popular software release to date. Mboom was followed by an audio recording software called Muzys. He then created MBoom, a similar offering, but this one also had a sampler. The old IMS software was one of the first sequencers and arrangers ever and is still used today by some die-hard fans. Jo Langie, the creator of MuLab, developed the IMS (Intuitive MIDI System) software for the Atari computer around the same time Cubase was just getting started. The free VST plugins developed by Airwindows closely follow it.

MuLab is, in my opinion, the single most underrated piece of production software on the market today. I just about to commit the journalistic cardinal sin of claiming that something is the most X of Y.

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