SOUND ON SOUND
Dorico is the biggest thing to happen to notation software for years. We explore the initial release and discover the thinking behind its innovative design.
We check out an interesting collection of specialist mic-mounting accessories, designed to support two mics in a precise physical relationship to each other.
iZotope say that Neutron not only has the processing power to address all sorts of mixing issues, but the intelligence to help you identify them.
All-round percussionist and jazz vibraphonist Frank Ricotti has enjoyed a stellar career as a composer, arranger, band-leader and session player, appearing on countless records and film scores. Spitfire Audio’s Ricotti Mallets features our man playing straight hits, rolls and glisses on marimba, glockenspiel, crotales and xylophone.
UA’s latest updates add new compressors, delays, voice channels and virtual bass amps, as well as refreshing a few familiar faces.
KRK’s established V-series monitors have long been popular in the project studio, and now they’ve been given a major overhaul.
Rigid Audio’s Synferno is a Kontakt-based construction kit library, offering 1200 24-bit loops organised into 300 preset ‘kits’ with a bass, synth, ambient and groove loop within each kit.
The name Lunastone may not sound so familiar, but this Danish company have an excellent provenance...
The Monologue may be a cut-down version of the Minilogue, but it offers a few features its polyphonic big brother can’t match.
Ueberschall have built up an impressive series of titles based around their Elastik Player front-end. The bulk of these follow a construction-kit format offering collections of genre-specific music composition broken down into their constituent loops...
With clever new tempo-mapping features and low-level Melodyne integration, time and pitch are now putty in the hands of Samplitude users!
Guitarscapes is built on a foundation of electric and acoustic guitars, plus mandolins and pedal steels. Sometimes the sources are obvious, but more often they’re not.
Many companies have offered rack-lighting products over the years, but this elegant British-made light employs super-bright LED strips rather than conventional bulbs.
Ribbon mics have long been associated with a subdued high-frequency response — but this classy example bucks the trend.
Arturia’s MatrixBrute combines everything the company know about synthesis into one hugely ambitious machine.
Peavey’s smart new range of PA speakers is punchy, robust, and easy on the pocket!
Steinberg update Cubasis 2 with real-time time-stretching and a “carefully redesigned user interface”, which amounts to a flatter, cleaner design that’s a little crisper and more pleasing to the eye than previous versions.
The humble TB303 has proved notoriously difficult to recreate in software, but ABL3 comes far closer than most.