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Tall Dog are a US company with no fewer than four new modules to tickle our fancies...
We all know the mantra by now: 'you can never have enough VCAs'. Tiptop's latest offering is designed to do this with as little distortion as possible, making it ideal for full–bandwidth audio signals.
With seven different flavours of echo on tap, this is one seriously versatile delay plug-in.
The idea of an in-line gain booster placed between a moving-coil or ribbon mic and a mic preamp isn't new — so what makes this one special?
Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. Soundiron managed to get hold of a 61-key example of this 1970s Panda synthesizer and sampled its seven core voices to produce this library.
Hot on the heels of the Instant Phaser MkII, Eventide have released an update to their Instant Flanger plug-in.
Sugar is a one-stop audio sweetening shop that offers multiple flavours of harmonic excitement.
Achieving a cardioid response down to low frequencies isn't easy, especially for a 'nearfield' monitor — but Dutch & Dutch have managed exactly that, and the results are impressive.
The 306P MkII is an affordable two-way active design that aims to combine accuracy, low-frequency extension, and reasonably high SPL capability.
Polyend's Seq offers straightforward step sequencing and buttons galore in one very attractive package.
Sonimus, producers of some fine EQ, console and compressor emulations, have introduced a new modular channel strip plug-in...
Rating: **** 5/5 Stars. Spitfire have taken a series of common instruments (such as strings, percussion and classical singers) and combined them in ethereal fashion with less commonly encountered sound sources...
Is Trinnov's powerful hardware system the last word in monitor correction?
Fixed filter banks have been part of the synthesist's armoury almost since the appearance of the earliest Moog modular synths...
Steinberg have made interfaces before — but none so ambitious as the AXR4. Can it hold its own against the competition?
Now in its seventh incarnation and offering three new instruments, Arturia's V Collection just keeps getting bigger and better.
IK's Axe I/O could be the perfect audio interface for recording guitarists.
DMG's comprehensive multiband dynamics processor adds a whole workshop to your mastering toolkit!
This pedal aims to emulate a range of amp tones, from clean to heavily distorted, using what Neunaber describe as a 'multi–stage, dynamic gain architecture'.
Does the Strike MultiPad's killer combination of features, practicality and price make it the best percussion pad on the market?