SOUND ON SOUND
While emulations of other classic analogue synths abound, there's only ever been one way to get your hands on a CS80 — until now.
At a glance the AS Generator looks like a conventional step sequencer, but there's much more to it than that...
DPA have been leaders in the tiny-microphone market for years, but their new 6000 Series takes 'miniature' to a new level.
Aston's capacitor mics are fast becoming popular in the studio, and with its four voicing options and built-in preamp, their first ever dynamic model looks set to follow suit!
Fluid Audio's SRI-2 keeps things simple but doesn't skimp on build quality and design.
CEntrance's MixerFace R4 is a highly versatile mobile recording interface and mixer.
We take a look at the first in a new, more affordable range of products from BAE.
Golden Age's new Premier brand takes their popular Pre‑73 preamps to the next level.
Retrokits' flexible MIDI interface proves that good things do indeed come in small packages.
Rating: 4/5 Stars **** Custom Shop features a range of rather exclusive hand-crafted drums and includes some very welcome brushed sounds for certain instruments.
This book's 350 pages are packed with useful ideas, up-to-date, well-marshalled information, and great conceptual explanations backed up with lots of useful diagrams.
Rating: 5/5 Stars ***** If you are a budding or busy composer looking for sonic inspiration in this style, then Ueberschall's Synthetic Soundtracks titles may well be of interest.
Though a great recording front‑end, this versatile and characterful processor could just as easily find a home on your stereo mix bus...
Mojo 2 Horn Section is an ambitious instrument that aims to succeed where other virtual horn sections fail.
This new range draws on Roland's Blues Cubes and promises to deliver both the sound and the playing feel of a real valvetube amp.
Mackie's new MC range of close-backed headphones are refreshingly devoid of over-fancy styling, and this gives them a reassuring 'get the job done' appearance.
The goal of turning musical omelettes back into eggs gets ever closer, thanks to some unlikely cloud-based DSP wizardry!
We explore what's new in the latest version of Native Instruments' flagship sampler.
The Two Hand Touch is a kind of Batman's utility belt for the live sound engineer who mixes from an iPad.
Interstellar Radio is "a faulty transmission line", whose wholly analogue design converts incoming audio to a high frequency pulse train then back again.