Computer / Software

If you like your drums heavy, the Hertz Drums Bundle might be just the thing.

Sound Particles have placed 3D audio at the heart of their new soft synth.

Baby Audio’s first soft synth is inspired by the baby of the Yamaha CS range, the small but immediate CS‑01.

We begin an in‑depth, two‑part examination of Apple’s M2 Pro and M2 Max chips, and the new MacBook Pro and Mac mini computers that house them.

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. Sandstorm provides an easy‑to‑use platform for creating evolving soundscapes and sonic textures.

Rating: 4.5/5 Stars. The instrument allows users to pick any two clarinet textures from a library of 15 available textures, blending and shaping them with onboard tools.

There’s a lot to like about MiMU’s unusually gelatinous take on granular synthesis.

HALion is back, and it’s bigger, better and FMier than ever!

The MiniFreak V is every bit as good as its hardware counterpart.

Arturia’s colourful soft synth goes from strength to strength.

Hit’n’Mix add recording features to RipX with the new DeepCreate module.

Imaginando VS is a visual synthesizer designed for music and musicians.

Klevgrand introduce a new take on wavetable synthesis.

Choreographs is not so much a Kontakt instrument as a perpetual motion machine.

Sonarworks’ SoundID has improved stereo monitoring in countless studios worldwide. The new multi‑channel version is designed to do the same for immersive audio.

What benefits have the latest crop of CPUs brought for audio users — and what might the coming year have in store for us?

Can Dreamtonics really deliver a session singer in software?

MusicLab’s virtual guitars get a major overhaul.

When is a piano not a piano? When it’s been ‘augmented’ by Arturia...

Cherry Audio recreate that rarest of beasts, the Elka Synthex.

EastWest give the classic string machine sound a modern twist.