Good excuse to get dressed up. Science & Technology Academy Awards 2026 - Technical Achievement Award for the design and engineering of Matchbox.

Envy 2.2.1 available now. - Redesign communications for Pro Tools, Reaper and Nuendo - Add PTSL spotting to Pro Tools 2025.6 or greater - Require macOS 10.15 or greater thecargocult.nz/downloads

The Cargo Cult 2026 Autumn Sale is Live! www.thecargocult.nz/store/

Mixalert - "Idiot Lights" for Intelligent Operators thecargocult.nz/products/mixalert

Matchbox 2.3.1 out now. thecargocult.nz/products/mat... Fixes and features including better Smart-Conform, Mixalert integration and more

Nice interview With Brent and Gwen on the sound work for the new Avatar film. www.asoundeffect.com/avatar-fire-...

Mixalert 1.1.0 updated just now. Includes new alert types and even Midi Triggers! www.thecargocult.nz/products/mix...

New toys! Mixalert has just been released, offering critical warnings for Pro Tools mixers and editors. Intro Sale: Just $49 for the first 7 days. www.thecargocult.nz/products/mix...

And no... it's nothing to do with xmas.

Final hours of our Black Friday 2025 Sale. thecargocult.nz/store Sale ends at: Los Angeles (PST): 23:59 Mon 1 Dec New York (EST, UTC-5): 02:59 Tue 2 Dec UK (GMT, UTC+0): 07:59 Tue 2 Dec EU Central (CET, UTC+1): 08:59 Tue 2 Dec Australia (Sydney, AEDT, UTC+11): 18:59 Tue 2 Dec

Black Friday starts now! Sale ends Monday night, 1st Dec, 23:59 PST. www.thecargocult.nz/store/

Yes, there will be a Black Friday sale. Stay tuned...

Matchbox 2.2.6 out now. Adds Smart-Conform for Reaper as well as some improvements to the Pro Tools reconform. www.thecargocult.nz/products/mat...

Matchbox 2.2 released just now with REAPER support and performance improvements for everyone. www.thecargocult.nz/products/mat...

Hidden feature! Matchbox 2.1 lets you manually trim match-ranges. Shift-Opt-Drag.

Anyone keen to use Matchbox with Reaper? Might have a beta for you to try...

Subquake 1.1 available now. Subquake was designed as the ultimate sub thumper for post mixing. Version 1.1 has a new (optional) "mixer friendly" GUI mode with Knobs and sliders and a more familiar visual design approach. This is a free upgrade, so feel free to download v1.1 now from our website.

Stemcell 2.1.0 update available now. Improves UI performance when multiple large instances open at the same time. thecargocult.nz/downloads

Hard to believe but it's been 20 years. Take advantage of our good mood and pick up some cheap stuff. thecargocult.nz/store

Matchbox 2.1 Update available now. • Deeper support for Nuendo & Cubase. • Match-back improvements • Tons of bug fixes and feature tweaks. Full list is here: www.thecargocult.nz/products/mat...

"without Matchbox, we would probably still be working on the movie” - Felipe Pacheco www.asoundeffect.com/sinners-film...

Stan Kybert is once again doing great work with our Slapper plugin on the new Lola Young Atmos mix. Big fans over here.

Smart-Conform for Pro Tools. Imagine the hours this will save.

Another gem from Tonebenders @tonebenderspodcast.bsky.social soundcloud.com/tonebenders-...

I love a small feature which makes a huge difference.

For those who enjoy the details: www.thecargocult.nz/products/mat...

Great new episode from the Tonebenders podcast. soundcloud.com/tonebenders-...

Matchbox 2 has finally been released. Years of toil have gone into this one and it's a really big step forward, especially if you're jumping onto Pro Tools 2025.6 right away. thecargocult.nz/products/mat...

Autumn Sale ends soon! Mar 30th @ 11:59pm thecargocult.nz/store

Summer is on the wane down here in the antipodes, which means it's end of year sale time. All products discounted. Up to 50% off. thecargocult.nz/store

Martin Kwok has experienced 'the spice' of Arrakis and has seen the future.The future is Matchbox.

Long overdue interview with our friends at 424 Post covering their amazing work on Gran Turismo. www.thecargocult.nz/interview/42...

My #sounddesign plug in of the day: Envy! Many thanks for this indispensable tool @thecargocult.bsky.social, making my life so much easier trying to blend all these layers 🙏🙏🙏

Re-recording mixer at 424 Post, Jessica Parks has spent time as a Post Exec, Foley Editor, and Sound Assistant on some major block busters. She knows where time can be saved and what it means to the production's bottom line. Jess likes Matchbox. https://buff.ly/3PnoD99

Envy users, we hear you. The Legacy Envy 1.x now supports both Apple Silicon and Intel, so you can use the old Audiosuite version for simple tasks, and Envy2 for the more powerful stuff. Available now from the bottom of the Downloads page: https://buff.ly/3ZGGNZc

Final Day of our awkwardly extended Black Friday sale. Ends 11:59 PST on Monday 2 Dec. www.thecargocult.nz/store/

Well this is embarrassing... A few people have complained about us running Black Friday a week early this year, as it makes it hard to compare other sale options. Heard. So we're going to to extend our sale thru Cyber Monday 2nd Dec. Not a sleazy marketing trick. Honest.

Swing time can be a pain for delays. Slapper makes it super easy to shuffle a few echoes.

Because a lot of people are asking... Yes, you can run Stemcell 1 after upgrading to v2. There's a special "legacy" build on our downloads page which will run alongside v2.

Officially 12 hours left in our Black Friday Sale... But it turns out Sunday night is a terrible time to end it, so we'll keep it open another 24 hours. www.thecargocult.nz/store/

@timcook.bsky.social Why are we still unable to run (real world) Torch models on your "neural engine" hardware? It's been years and anything more complex that "hello world" is hobbled by untold missing features in the library. Give them a couple of engineers so we can awaken this sleeping giant.

Add layers of weight by rendering a few new files with Subquake. On Sale Now thru 24 Nov 2024 (PST) https://buff.ly/3YUfyZH

This is such a useful sound design tool. Especially great for bedding sounds together. Would definitely recommend taking advantage of the price drop.

Here's an example of using the pitch mapping capabilities of Envy to better force one sound into the shape of another. On Sale thru Nov 24 (2024) PST www.thecargocult.nz/store/

Simon Franglen is a master of the both electronic and the orchestral. Subquake gives him those extra octaves and the power to sculpt it precisely. On Sale now thru 24 Nov. https://buff.ly/3YUfyZH

Morphin' with Envy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0QC...