SOUND ON SOUND
The Arrow offers two-channel recording and Universal Audio’s celebrated plug-ins, all at the end of a Thunderbolt 3 connector.
I took my first sound design job years ago on a television show whose budget barely afforded me the petrol to the studio. It...
Epic Risers and Epic Drops are designed for the full version of Kontakt (v.5.6 or later) and provide the sorts of ‘riser’ and ‘drop’ sounds that have become firm ear-candy favourites for cinematic composers, game sound designers, and music producers in various contemporary genres (EDM and hip hop).
Zynaptiq’s unique blend of pitch-shift, delay, reverb and other effects will take you into parallel musical universes!
A real labour of love, this neatly-zipped 893MB download file expands to nearly 1GB of data, comprising the 185-page e-book itself, 130 audio files, and 17 associated MP4 video tutorials that in themselves provide a total of 3.5 hours of viewing.
Mercuriall’s painstaking recreation of a classic Mesa guitar preamp offers more than just rock nostalgia.
Low frequencies are the weak point of nearly every home and project studio — could this unique tactile subwoofer give you the edge?
Weighing in at a substantial 40GB uncompressed, SKU therefore has plenty of headroom to focus on sound quality and detail...
Classic low-pass gates are probably best associated with the Buchla modulars. However, Rabid Elephant decided against the vactrols, aiming to produce something faster, more accurate, durable and natural-sounding.
PMC’s new entry-level monitors represent a distillation of nearly three decades of R&D.
Plonk uses AAS physical modelling to generate many voices of a typical drum machine, but it’s equally suited to creating strikes and hits with no real-world equivalent...
Roland continue to mine their considerable legacy with another Boutique module, this time based on the simple but much-loved SH-101.
The latest versions of iZotope’s Ozone and Neutron are not only more intelligent than their predecessors, they can also communicate with one another.
Soniccouture’s latest instrument combines recordings made in extraordinary spaces with an ultra-modern interface.
Focal’s new flagship studio cans aren’t cheap — but their performance is up there with the very best of them.
Developed in conjunction with Matthias Puech, the 4MS Tapographic Delay is a hands-on 32-tap delay with a maximum delay time close to three minutes.
Phosphor 2 is Audio Damages' first of their desktop virtual instruments to be ported to iOS, bringing with it exactly the same features as the desktop version.
We cast our eyes and ears over Mr Neve’s elegant contributions to the 500-series format.
Arturia’s new V Collection includes a digital tribute to possibly the funkiest of all keyboards — the Clavinet.
With its twin 12-inch woofers, this compact column system packs rather more punch than your average mini line‑array.