Reviews

Listing of all SOS June 2019 articles with accompanying media files.

Prism is an 12HP effect module capable of combining three distinct elements: delay, filter and decimation.

This 6HP module is specifically set up as a hi-fi, low‑noise, two‑channel (stereo) audio recorder with a basic playback facility.

Akai Pro have distilled the best of their technologies into a stand-alone clip- and scene-based performance and production workstation.

Built to Schlappi's same exacting standards, this all-analogue module can be an oscillator, LFO, filter or waveshaper...

Two Notes' latest device offers serious power-amp and cabinet modelling in a convenient stompbox format.

Need percussive noise on a budget? Look no further...

This book claims to be "the most comprehensive guide to becoming successful in the Film/TV/Media industry, as told by 65 thriving professionals in mini interviews."

Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. Pop Strings UK (6.4GB installed) is a collection of 48kHz WAV audio files — no sampler required, you just drag the WAVs into your DAW, set the song tempo and off you go.

Numerical Audio will probably be known to keen iOS recordists through developer Kai Aras' earlier apps such as RP‑1 and...

VSL push out the boat with hall-recorded rock power drums and two top of the range grand pianos.

Rob Papen's versatile Rack Extension vector synth has been reborn as a plug-in.

Rating: **** 5/5 Stars. This library delivers big, bad (in a good way) drum and percussion sounds designed for epic TV and film music creation.

If you use effects pedals, whether on stage or in the studio, running them from a high-quality power supply is essential to...

Taking the design of the original Minilogue and features from the Prologue, does the XD offer the ideal balance between function and price?

Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. A Psaltered Zither should make it much easier for musicians to include zither playing in their compositions...

Arturia throw out the synthesizer rulebook with an instrument that dares to be different.

Extinct Audio's excellent BM9 ribbon mic is now joined by a stereo version, and a ruggedised edition designed for loud sources. We put them to the test.

Designed both with both podcasters and home-studio owners on tighter budgets in mind, Blue's Ember is a transformerless, fixed...

Sanitise dirty talk on the spot with Audionamix's effective and easy-to-use plug-in.