SOUND ON SOUND
Austrian Audio may be a new name, but their first mics have an unrivalled pedigree. Are these the true heirs of AKG's classic C414 EB?
Rating: **** 4/5 Stars. This instrument comprises all of the electric and acoustic guitar libraries that Sonic Zest have made for the Kontakt platform over the last six years.
UJAM add three flavours of bass player to their growing virtual musician catalogue.
Spitfire Audio get intimate with their new studio-recorded orchestral sample libraries.
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?
In GotoEQ, Klevgränd are attempting to recreate some of the magic of the Pultec EQP‑1A hardware — in AUv3 plug-in format.
Rating: ***** 5/5 Stars. This large metallophone is presented as a single patch containing a collection of preset 'snapshots' divided into percussive and sound–design categories...
Always unconventional, Teenage Engineering's latest instrument is a battery-powered multimedia studio that will fit in your pocket.
Tall Dog are a US company with no fewer than four new modules to tickle our fancies...
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...