Plug-ins

The latest addition to Focusrite’s AI‑powered Collective makes great‑sounding reverbs easy to achieve.

With user-adjustable crossover points, Spread splits the audio signal into four bands, each of which can be adjusted for stereo width and ‘tilt’.

A four‑band side‑chain EQ is just one of many nice touches in this new take on an analogue classic.

Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. Bold is a sound library with a colourful user interface that features sampled drums, effects/Foley, keys and bass sounds.

At heart, it models the same hardware as Slate’s FG‑2A, but Custom Opto’s tweaks make it useful on so many more sources!

Have Slate Digital perfected real‑time pitch‑correction?

As well as upgrades to its fundamental algorithms, Gullfoss now includes both low‑latency Live and high‑resolution Mastering editions.

Combining the classic vocoder with Antares’ popular pitch processor, this plug‑in is capable of some pretty 'out there' effects.

With both desktop and mobile versions, and a tiered pricing model, there’s a Bias FX 2 version to suit any budget.

Sample Logic’s first plug‑in can bring your samples and music to life.

Steinberg are on a mission with SpectraLayers. So, what’s new with Pro 8?

Voxessor provides a user‑friendly toolkit for improving the sound of spoken voice. It’s intended to appeal to anyone doing podcasts or voiceovers.

JMG Sound’s spatial enhancement plug‑in employs psychoacoustic principles to “make your sounds deeper, wider and bigger”.

This plug-in’s primary role is in beefing up drum and percussion sounds, though it can also work well on bass parts or to add a sheen of analogue warmth to other instruments.

If your sounds need a lift, perhaps you need Rift?

UJAM’s Groovemate ONE is a one‑stop shop for pop percussion.

This stereo/surround frequency‑based panner is dripping with creative potential.

Available through United Plugins, Muramasa Audio’s Electrum is a guitar‑style amp, speaker and pedalboard modelling plug...

This Voice Changer plug‑in is probably going to appeal more to those creating podcasts or low‑budget movies than to music producers...

Recreating a studio monitoring experience on headphones just got simpler, courtesy of dSONIQ’s improved Realphones.

SILO combines granular processing with reverb and pitch change, the aim being to produce complex, musically involving effects...