SOUND ON SOUND
With Mackie’s experience in making monitors, it’s no surprise that their affordable new range punches above its weight.
MangledVerb first appeared as an algorithm in the rackmount Eventide Eclipse effects units. It then migrated to the H9 guitar pedal, and is now available as a self-contained plug-in supporting all the usual formats.
By combining traditional speaker engineering with a little help from software, HEDD have come up with a rather special set of monitors.
The 808 needs no introduction, but can its diminutive descendent deliver the same punch?
We check out this high-fidelity two-channel stereo audio recorder and playback module that can record high-quality (stereo) WAV files whilst simultaneously playing two different (stereo) files.
Hand made in Nashville, these mics use old-school materials and manufacturing techniques to deliver that classic ribbon sound.
With Live 10, Ableton’s aim is to make the music‑making process as smooth as possible. Have they succeeded?
Thirty years after the launch of the groundbreaking D-50, Roland’s Boutique version offers the same iconic sound.
Caspian: Thematic Orchestral Brass comprises three .NKI patches: Six French Horns, Three Bass Trombones and Three Trumpets, performed by the Czechoslovakia-based Capellen Orchestra.
The MÖG Wavefolder doesn’t just modify waveform shape, it squishes, shifts, boosts and distorts — and is equally happy doing the same to control signals.
The D4 is a single-channel mic preamp based on a design created by EMI’s in-house Recording Engineering Development Department, as part of the development of the REDD.51 tube console.
This neat gadget opens up a host of possibilities for electric and acoustic guitar.
Both volumes in the bundle provide a selection of multi-sampled, multi-articulation, virtual brass instruments that are playable in exactly the same way as a conventional orchestral sample library is but are much more suited to soul, funk and pop.
This suite of six MIDI sequencer tools run as AU-only plug-ins within a suitable AU-host. Rozeta also makes use of one of the new features Apple has snuck rather quietly into the iOS 11 update: the ability for AU plug-ins to send MIDI Out data.
Helix systems are converting many guitarists to amp modelling, and the newest of them brings Line 6’s latest algorithms to your DAW.
The hugely successful MiniBrute has evolved into what Arturia describe as a synthesis ‘ecosystem’, but the MiniBrute 2 and 2S aren’t just updates — they’re completely new instruments.
This high-end valve mic sounds every bit as classy as it looks, and a unique voicing switch adds to its versatility.
Expeditions uses the powerful (and very deep) Kontakt-based front-end that provides loop playback, manipulation, a range of creative effects with sequencing options, and is designed to inspire hi-tech music tracks/cues.
Hot Wax is a dual overdrive pedal that draws upon and combines two existing EHX pedal designs, the Crayon and the Hot Tubes.
Sonarworks’ headphone and monitor correction software has spread its wings outside the DAW, and now encompasses more headphone models than ever.