Reviews

O-G-SUS (Oliver Greschke) is already well known amongst iOS musicians for the excellent Elastic Drums app, but his latest offering is an effects app: Elastic FX.

For the first product in their new Premier range, Golden Age are tackling perhaps the most famous studio mic of them all.

The Treadstone packs a lot of analogue synth into a very small box.

The new Nectar Elements plug-in uses artificial intelligence to help you craft a polished vocal sound. Operation is simplicity itself, but what goes on behind the scenes is actually very sophisticated...

CenterOne v2 adds a new Center Width control which varies what is counted as belonging to the ‘centre’ component by the algorithm...

The baby of Unity’s rock-themed monitors might be small, but its low-frequency performance is seriously impressive.

Originally best known for their large-format mixing consoles, Harrison have been diversifying in recent years, launching a range of inexpensive cross-platform plug-ins under the AVA sub-brand. We explore their equaliser designed specifically for mastering applications.

Superchord from LMDSP is a plug-in that takes the concept of piano-string sympathetic resonance as a starting point for an incredibly versatile range of riotously creative effects.

Universal Audio’s new Apollo X range sees the company pull out all the stops to best the competition — have they succeeded?

Kludge Audio’s new transformer‑ and inductor‑based modules could be just what’s needed to inject a bit of vintage vibe.

The Sequential Prophet X combines analogue and sample-based synthesis in one enormously ambitious and flexible instrument.

The Entity PS's 100-percent analogue circuitry is capable of producing a huge range of percussive effects including, but not limited to: snares, claps, toms, rim shots, hats, synth percussions, zaps and blips, bass and lead sounds and even new flavours of kick-drum sounds.

Waverazor offers an aggressive take on waveshaping synthesis and some seriously deep editing.

The Erica Synths Drum Sequencer is a drum brain optimised for live performance with plenty of capacity for all your favourite patterns...

Featuring the vocals of Clara Sorace in three different sets of vocal presets, Zero-G’s Electro Virtual Instrument library also includes a sizeable collection of instrument sounds: synths, guitars, leads, pads, drums, drum loops and various sound effects‑style groupings.

With full control and recall via a plug-in or the front panel, this hardware EQ promises full integration in a modern DAW-based setup.

Guitar pedals range from the very basic ‘turn a knob’ variety to those with deep MIDI implementations and layers of hidden parameters. Lunastone’s Three Stage Rocket [MIDI Version] overdrive aims to strike a balance between those extremes...

This neat box of tricks offers a wide range of vocal effects, as well as the ability to track the pitch of a guitar or MIDI input.

Outside the big-hitter sample library/virtual instrument developers, there are a whole host of smaller, indie-style developers doing their best to compete, either by offering something unique or accessibly priced. Folio Bass is one such product...

Bechstein have exhaustively sampled one of their own instruments to bring us this lavishly produced virtual piano.