Computer / Software

Rating **** 4/5 Stars. If you need something to help you cook up dynamic drones, creepy cues or surreal synths, Timedrops has a lot to offer.

Dawesome’s Novum is a granular synthesizer with a multi‑layered approach to sound design.

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. Sampleson describe their latest release, Alienize, as a cinematic sci‑fi instrument with mouse gesture‑based modulation.

Does the latest iteration of NI’s Komplete music production suite provide all the tools you need?

Sonuscore transform the sounds of the orchestra into cinematic soundscapes.

Vir2’s Phoenix is a one‑stop shop for rises, hits and whooshes.

Arturia’s mighty V Collection continues to grow and improve.

Rating: 5/5 Stars. If you are looking for an ‘easy’ virtual acoustic drum instrument, GoranGrooves’ Handy Drums provide an interesting alternative.

Steinberg continue to develop SpectraLayers at a remarkable pace.

Softube take on Roland’s classic SH-101.

Modo Bass 2 builds on the success of the original, adding more and better basses.

This powerful ROMpler aims to be all things to all synthesists.

It’s useful to be able to work on headphones even when mixing immersive audio. Does Genelec’s Aural ID system make this easier?

Lunacy Audio take a different approach to in‑the‑box sound design.

Toontrack’s EZdrummer just gets better and better.

PlayScore 2 is an iOS and Android app that performs OMR (optical music recognition) via a device’s camera or graphics‑type file import.

Steinberg’s scoring suite just keeps getting better!

Embody’s Immerse Virtual Studio aims to replicate loudspeaker listening on headphones — and the newest variant does so in up to 7.1.6 surround.

Sampleson’s modelled Wurlitzer ticks all the right electric piano boxes.

Is Apple’s Mac Studio the perfect computer for the studio?

Veteran software Mellotron specialists GForce have recreated the sounds of the earliest models with startling accuracy.