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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.

**** 4/5 stars. This Matt Halpern signature pack sample library is designed for productions ranging from rock through to thrash metal...

**** 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?