SOUND ON SOUND
The Faderfox controllers are bijou and boutique, and theres five of them to choose from.
With the latest version of their unique object oriented DAW, Magix are targeting both mastering and recording engineers.
The Viennese maestros celebrate 10 years of sample creation with a foray into the world of vocals.
With so many different bundled and third-party colour correction plug-ins available, do Colorista 2s new features offer anything special?
These audio files accompany the Sontronics Saturn review that featured in SOS October 2010.
Hardly a month goes by that a new handheld stereo recorder doesn't turn up at SOS Towers, but the Rekord M has to be the...
The latest version of Reason incorporates new arrangement tools and two powerful new instruments, and even lets you record samples. Meanwhile, sister application Record continues to develop too...
Toontracks new sampling software instrument is simple to use, but also far deeper than it initially appears to be...
Anyone with a passing interest in synthesizers, especially of the unfinished, unobtainable and commercially disastrous variety, knows of the RSF Polykobol II. Few have ever played one — but now theres PolyKB...
Zero‑G's Disco Gold provides over 800 loops presented in a 24‑bit, 44.1kHz stereo format, with some 1.7Gb of sample material in all.
With Steinberg continuing to focus on features for audio post-production, is Nuendo still a relevant option for those working strictly in music?
Sontronics mics usually sound as distinctive as they look - and this one looks more distinctive than most!
Toontrack's EZ Drummer and Superior Dummer have proved hugely popular, in part because of the availability of expansion...
Designed as a hand-held live vocal mic, this mic has a cardioid pickup pattern, and seems very robustly engineered.
Building to a price inevitably entails compromises. The art is in choosing the right ones...
Acoustic Toy Museum is one of the more bizarre offerings from Ultimate Sound Bank, and is volume 10 of the UVI Soundcard range.
British 'boutique' outboard manufacturers seem to be rather thin on the ground these days, but if this Pultec clone is anything to go by, newcomers Cartec look set to make a big impression.
How do you make a piezo-miked acoustic guitar sound like a real miked acoustic? Fishman have improved on their already impressive answer to that question...
Scans new laptop is as powerful as many desktop computers and aims to eliminate the unreliability so often characteristic of off-the-peg machines.