Plug-ins

We check out another batch of plug-ins destined to find a place in your virtual rack.

There are now plenty of convolution reverbs around, but Prosoniq's Rayverb offers something a little different. So just what is 'inverse raytracing' anyway?

If you are looking for effects and instruments to give your mixes a sideways slant, Cycling '74 might have just the thing...

As well as more-or-less conventional vocoding and pitch-shifting, DelayDots' new VST plug-in offers effects so bizarre they almost defy description.

Brief appraisals of another selection of software Plug-ins from Disco DSP, Cutter Music, Kjaerhus Audio and PSP.

Sound Toys claim that their new plug-in captures the sound of an analogue filter in digital form. We put it to the test...

We check out two more useful plug-ins, one for Powercore and one for PC VST/Direct X.

Convolving reverbs are coming down in price as more manufacturers make their own. We check out Emagic's new plug-in, which is one of the more affordable ones around, but still allows you to create your own reverbs from favourite spaces.

TC's plug-in powerhouse is now available as an external Firewire-connected rack unit.

This Adobe Premiere plug-in has now been ported to two different real-time plug-in formats: VST (for Mac OS 9, OS X and Windows) and Apple's new Audio Unit standard (for OS X).

Although most major MIDI + Audio sequencing applications include bundled EQ, dynamics and reverb plug-ins, they don't always sound too great, so many users are on the lookout for alternatives, like these two from Wave Arts.