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**** 4/5 stars. Synthetic Strings focuses not on string synthesizers per se, but on synthetic textures inspired by synthesizers and string machines.
Pittsburgh's desktop semi-modular has its eye set firmly on the experimental.
We put Nektar's ambitious foot controller through its, er, paces.
Rare Signals are new players in the plug-in market, and Transatlantic Plate Reverb is their first product.
**** 4/5 stars. Unorthodox Audio are a fledgling sample library company, set up by composers Richard Norris and Mike Gunn with the aim of trying to "capture something wonderfully peculiar within each virtual instrument".
Korg bring West Coast modular synthesis to the masses with their most ambitious Volca yet.
We put sE's claims of truly transparent gain to the test...
Oscillot recognise that many small studios don't have the space or resources to host multiple monitor systems, so they've created a virtual alternative to physical speaker switching.
Offering both retro analogue simplicity and modern digital recording facilities, can this device be master of all trades?
Universal Audio take another step — or five — towards recreating every piece of classic audio hardware ever made!
Make Noise proudly promote the René as "the world's only 3D Cartesian Music Sequencer". I had no idea either, but it's been...
A chance meeting with a leading choral composer sparked a major new Spitfire library.
Is this, as the manufacturers claim, the most authentic recreation of the venerable PulTec EQP‑1A?
***** 5/5 stars. Produced by Grammy-winning engineer Josh Wilbur and Lamb Of God drummer Chris Adler, this is a collection of hard-hitting drums that sound big in every sense of the word.
This plate reverb emulation combines Relab's algorithmic reverberation tail technology with Kush's expertise in harmonic shaping and compression.
The Plasma Pedal is a very different take on the distortion pedal, and it would be very easy to mistake its description as...
Cubase celebrates a milestone birthday with an update that makes almost every aspect of the program slicker and easier to use.
The iD44 is a versatile USB 2.0 desktop interface with Audient's trademark audio quality.
The Gigboard crams the processing power of Headrush's flagship Pedalboard into a compact and easy to use format.