IK Multimedia

IK Multimedia’s latest gizmo aims to give you a studio-quality guitar sound on stage with the minimum of hassle.

The iRig HD 2 compliments IK’s series of compact audio interfaces designed to record guitar, bass guitar and line-level devices with minimum fuss on an iOS device or computer.

IK’s modelled bass instrument offers both realism and a fantastic degree of real-time control.

Sampletank was a hit: a sample-based virtual instrument with great sounds and, at the time, not much competition. Two years on, there are plenty of fully-featured software samplers and non-sampling virtual instruments too. Can Sampletank 2 keep up?

In spite of their diminutive size, these monitors turn in a seriously impressive performance.

Microphones that include A-D converters, allowing them to be plugged directly into computers or iOS devices, are becoming increasingly popular. IK's offering is built around a large-diaphragm capacitor mic with built-in 24-bit converters that support sample rates up to 48kHz.

The latest instrument plug-in from IK Multimedia and Sonic Reality packages eight Gigabytes of samples, mostly from a huge range of classic synths, in IK's Sampletank front end.

The iRig Pro Duo promises to be a versatile and affordable all-in-one studio for iOS, Android and desktop computers.