SOUND ON SOUND
With a large, well–equipped control panel and a gratuitously laden effects rack, the JDXA could be Roland’s most ambitious, hands–on synthesizer in many years.
These files accompany the Sample Library articles in the December 2015 issue of SOS.
Orbit is a Kontakt 5 instrument designed to be a source of evolving or pulsing textures. Unusually, you access it via...
Fuse is a Kontakt instrument that serves as a music ‘workstation’, but with a distinctly urban slant.
This month: Noise Co Patterning drum machine app and the Korg iM1 synth app, both for iPad.
Yamaha’s Reface range recreates four of their classic instruments in miniature form.
This 21st-century emulation of the SID 8‑bit soundchip is accurate down to its three notes of polyphony and ability to export your songs for playback on an actual Commodore 64.
With the affordable and innovative Beatstep Pro, Arturia may have created a sequencer for the masses.
Acidlab haven’t just recreated the Roland TR606 — they’ve made it better.
Oracle is billed as a “modern sound design” library of large-scale elements to pump up your TV, film and game scores.