SOUND ON SOUND
The MV88 is entering a increasingly crowded market, so does it have what is needed to win it a good slice of the action?
Never one to rest on his laurels, Roger Linn’s latest creation aims to bring unprecedented expressivity to MIDI musicians.
Venerable British company Soundcraft have delved into their past to create this analogue mixer with a USB–flavoured twist...
Rhythmic Robot strike again — and with a double whammy! I can only speculate about this labour of love, feeding an Emulator II with a near–endless supply of 5.25–inch floppy disks.
We’ve all had those ‘if only I could get rid of the drums!’ moments. Zynaptiq’s innovative plug–in promises to do just that.
Manikin have shrunk their Mellotron emulator down to desktop module size, but how will it measure up?
Designed by Sonicsmiths and released through Big Fish Audio, The Foundry is a Kontakt 5 virtual instrument that is aimed most obviously at sound designers.
As George Harrison once told my friend Martin Smith at Streetly Electronics, “History is bollocks. If you weren’t there, you don’t know.”
Schertler are no strangers to the art of amplifying stringed instruments, and their latest designs don’t disappoint.
By concentrating only on the components that matter, Roswell have managed to create a classic-sounding mic with a budget price tag.
My pedalboard seems to be in a permanent state of being rebuilt, and this time around I decided I needed a better power supply...
These files accompany the Sample Shop articles in the April 2016 issue of SOS.
The first product from Austrian developers Sonible aims to raise the IQ of EQ.
A fully-weighted master keyboard at this price is unheard of. Is the KeyLab 88 too good to be true?
Physically, the AXOS Panner is a compact free-standing control unit, which connects via a single USB cable to the DAW host....
The latest Cubase update connects Steinberg’s DAW to the cloud, but also brings plenty of improvements for earthbound users.
Small Upright is part of Toontrack’s EZkeys range of products which includes a virtual pipe organ, Mellotron, Clavinet...
Will Alesis’s affordable sample–triggering percussion pad prove hard to beat?
Heavyocity soar into orbit with a collection of dramatic scoring elements.