SOUND ON SOUND
Why are some DI boxes so damned expensive? Aren't they all just pretty much a transformer in a box? And what if any...
Rhythmic Robot, Loopscape, Universal Audio, MXR Flanger/Doubler, Waves NS1
Analogue summing is proving a popular route for ‘warming up’ digital mixes, and there are many models on the market that are dedicated to the task. Here’s a selection of current options, with links to the SOS reviews where available.
Jazz Colors features 20 jazz-flavoured construction kits comprising over 3GB of sample data, spread across some 1400 samples.
Big Fish Audio's Pop Rocks! (their exclamation mark, not mine) is the company's latest addition to their massive genre-based...
As a title, Beats From The East is slightly misleading, as this library's real focus is on delivering Western-style commercial loops for hip-hop, R&B, crunk, trance, techno and house tracks.
According to its liner notes, the purpose of Urban Ballads is to provide R&B producers with "authentic” sounds.
• Toontrack EZ Mix • 2C Audio Aether 1.5 • Universal Audio EP34 • Native Instruments Traktor 12 • Overloud SpringAge