SOUND ON SOUND
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 Stars. With Rosette Mandolin, Impact Soundworks have brought a touch of American folk music to their Rosette engine.
Rating: ***** 4/5 Stars. This company has been filling various sonic gaps with their innovative and affordable electronic, acoustic and hybrid instruments. Now they've added the evocative and useful Duduk.
Rating: ***** 4/5 Stars. Nearly 10,000 samples of a modern 10-string E9 pedal steel were taken for this appealing virtual instrument...
Peak Rider 2 smoothly detects the dynamics and frequencies of a sidechain signal (external or generated), using it to process the main input in one of 5 ways.
This is a Kontakt instrument with a difference, built from samples of a one-off electro-acoustic instrument — a box with several guitar strings and a contact mic attached...
Shreddage might sound like a Heston Blumenthal recipe involving Shredded Wheat and cabbage, but it’s actually a Kontakt-based sample engine from Impact Soundworks.
Archtop's sample collection is based on just one instrument, namely a customised Sadowsky Jim Hall hollow‑body arch‑top guitar with dual pickups.
Sometimes you yearn for new sounds that haven't been heard before. Resonance: Emotional Mallets most definitely falls into this category, starting life as 14 unique instruments constructed from materials including glass, metal, stone and wood.
